Embedded Vision Insights: June 7, 2016 Edition

Dear Colleague,

Several additional presentation videos from the Embedded Vision Summit are now available on the Alliance website. In his plenary talk, "Computer Vision 2.0: Where We Are and Where We're Going," Embedded Vision Alliance founder Jeff Bier presents an insider's view of the state of computer vision technology and applications today, along with predicting how the field will evolve in the next few years. Newly added business presentations include:

• "A Practitioner’s Guide to Commercializing Applications of Computer Vision,"  from Peter Shannon of Firelake Capital Management
• "Computer Vision in Cars: Status, Challenges, and Trends," from Marco Jacobs of videantis, and
• "Democratizing Computer Vision Development: Lessons from the Video Game Industry," from Paul Kruszewski of WRNCH.

In his technical presentation "The OpenCV Open Source Computer Vision Library: What’s New and What’s Coming?," Gary Bradski, head of the OpenCV Foundation, provides perspective on the new version of OpenCV and how developers can utilize it to maximum advantage for vision research, prototyping, and product development, as well as offering a sneak peek into where OpenCV is headed next. Make sure you also check out the great Vision Tank competition finalist presentations from 3DiVi, 8tree, Magik Eye, Preemadonna and SKUR. And while you're on the Alliance website, don't forget to review all the other great new content there, including several additional published chapters in ARM's technical manual "Guide to OpenCL Optimizing Convolution," and news releases from Intel (on its acquisition of fellow Alliance member Itseez) and Synopsys (on its new DesignWare EV6 embedded vision processor family).

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

"Computer Vision Powered by Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA)," a Presentation from AMD
Harris Gasparakis, Ph.D., OpenCV manager at AMD, presents the "Computer Vision Powered by Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA)" tutorial at the May 2014 Embedded Vision Summit. Gasparakis reviews the HSA vision and its current incarnation though OpenCL 2.0, and discusses its relevance and advantages for computer vision applications. HSA unifies CPU cores, GPU compute units, and auxiliary co-processors (such as an ISP, DSP, and Video Codecs) on the same die. It enables all IPs to have a unified and coherent view of system memory and enables concurrent processing, allowing the most suitable IP to be used for each vision pipeline task. Gasparakis elucidates this concept with examples (such as multi-resolution optical flow and adaptive deep learning networks) and live demos. Finally, he describes the transparent integration of OpenCL in OpenCV 3.0.

"Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired," a Presentation from UC Santa Cruz
Professor Roberto Manduchi of U.C. Santa Cruz delivers the presentation, "Assistive Technology for the Visually Impaired," at the December 2015 Embedded Vision Alliance Member Meeting. Professor Manduchi explores how embedded vision is being used to assist visually impaired individuals.

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One Sensor to Rule Them All
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