Embedded Vision Insights: February 10, 2015 Edition

Dear Colleague,

A month ago, I directed your attention to the just-launched "microsite" for the upcoming Embedded Vision Summit, a technical educational forum for engineers interested in incorporating visual intelligence into electronic systems and software, taking place on May 12, 2015 in Santa Clara, California. Now I'm happy to report that details on the two scheduled Summit keynote speakers have been published.

Dr. Ren Wu is a distinguished scientist at Baidu's Institute of Deep Learning (IDL). As China's leading search engine, Baidu's focus is not only on indexing website text but also multimedia content, such as still images and video clips. It's in these latter areas where computer vision fits in, enabling automated analysis and identification of the various objects embedded within the visual information. Dr. Wu will discuss how his team is leveraging "deep learning" convolutional neural network techniques, along with heterogeneous computing acceleration, to optimize image search speed and accuracy.

Mike Aldred, the other scheduled Summit keynote presenter, is the Electronics Lead at Dyson. After obtaining a Ph.D. in Robotics at the University of Kent, Canterbury, Mike joined Dyson when his research group was hired to help the company develop a robotic vacuum cleaner prototype. His fifteen-year career in design and management has led to the recently introduced 360 Eye, which as its name implies relies extensively on embedded vision processing to deliver robust autonomous room-navigation capabilities. For a demonstration of the 360 Eye in action, see the company's promo video showcased on the Alliance website's "Eye-Catching Clips" page. Mike's talk will focus on how to robustly and cost-effectively add vision processing capabilities to consumer electronics devices.

Speaking of conferences, I'd also like to direct your attention to several other upcoming events with a practical computer vision angle. March 9-11 in Santa Clara, California is the Wearables TechCon. Later that same month, and one city away in San Jose, is NVIDIA's GTC (GPU Technology Conference). And at the end of March, in Chicago, Illinois, the AIA will be putting on the Automate show. See the Alliance's news writeups for more details, including registration discount codes. And while you're on the Alliance website, check out all the other great new content recently published there. 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. Please don't hesitate to let me know how the Alliance can better serve your needs.

Brian Dipert
Editor-In-Chief, Embedded Vision Alliance

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