Embedded Vision Insights: August 20, 2013 Edition

Dear Colleague,

Last time, I alerted you to the recent publication of one of the videorecorded presentations from the July Embedded Vision Alliance Member Meeting, from Argus Insights' CEO, John Feland, Ph.D. This time, I'm happy to pass along the news of the publication of the other video from that event. It's the keynote, "High Speed Vision and Its Applications — Sensor Fusion, Dynamic Image Control, Vision Architecture, and Meta-Perception," from Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa of Tokyo University. Some of you may remember having previously heard of Professor Ishikawa's work from a news writeup, "Vision-Superior Robot Trumps Humans At Rock-Paper-Scissors, Ping Pong Balls," published on the Alliance website a year ago. His more recent presentation on the diversity of applications enabled by ultra-high speed vision processing is both highly entertaining and educational, and I commend it to your inspection.

I'd also like to pass along some additional information about the upcoming October 2 Embedded Vision Summit East, a technical educational forum for product creators interested in incorporating visual intelligence into electronic systems and software, to be held at the Regency Inn and Conference Center in Westford, Massachusetts. I've previously mentioned the scheduled keynote by Mario Munich, Vice President of Advanced Development at iRobot. New to the event agenda this time is a special presentation from Mike Geertsen, Program Manager at DARPA. As part of its Visual Media Reasoning (VMR) program, DARPA has created two general-purpose vision system development tools, which it plans to release as an adjunct to the OpenCV open source computer vision software library in late 2013 or early 2014. Mike Geertsen, DARPA Program Manager, will present an overview of the VMR program and the enabling tools developed under it. And don't forget about the 25% discount on your Embedded Vision Summit East registration fee, only through August 31!

That's not all: other new content on the site includes a two-part tutorial from Texas Instruments' embedded vision R&D manager, Goksel Dedeoglu, a digital video stabilizer demo video from CEVA, an "embedded vision on mobile devices" article reprint authored by CogniVue and the Alliance, and downloads, blog and discussion forum posts, news writeups, market analysis reports, and press releases from Alliance member companies. Check them out to keep current on embedded vision technology and product developments. Thanks as always for your support of the Embedded Vision Alliance, and for your interest in and contributions to embedded vision technologies, products and applications. And please don't hesitate to let me know how the Alliance can better service your needs.

Brian Dipert
Editor-In-Chief, Embedded Vision Alliance

July 2013 Alliance Member Meeting Keynote Presentation: "High Speed Vision and Its Applications," Professor Masahiro Ishikawa, Tokyo University
Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa of Tokyo University delivers the keynote presentation, "High Speed Vision and Its Applications: Sensor Fusion, Dynamic Image Control, Vision Architecture, and Meta-Perception," at the July 2013 Embedded Vision Alliance Member Meeting. High speed vision processing and various applications based on it are expected to become increasingly common due to continued improvement in the sensitivity and speed of CMOS image sensors. In Professor Ishikawa's talk, the processing architectures of high speed vision and the design concepts of high speed visual feedback systems based on sensor fusion are explained. In addition, new vision systems based on active optics for high speed vision are shown. Emerging technologies in high speed vision are shown by using videos of application systems, including high speed gesture recognition, multi-target tracking for inspection, three-dimensional shape measurement, a high-speed book scanner, micro visual feedback for medical applications, and high speed intelligent robots.

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