Wellingborough, 18 May 2012: IMS Research, recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE:IHS), has just published the ninth edition of its World Market for CCTV and Video Surveillance Equipment report. The 2012 edition forecasts that despite the weak and uncertain economic climate, the world market for video surveillance equipment will grow in excess of 12% in […]
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BDTI Senior Engineers Eric Gregori and Shehrzad Qureshi deliver a techology trends presentation on image sensors for embedded vision applications, at the late-March 2012 Embedded Vision Alliance Summit. Eric and Shehrzad discuss trends regarding conventional 2-D image sensors, as well as those supporting "3-D" (depth discernment) and "4-D" (i.e. selective focus, otherwise known as light
Wellingborough, UK – 17 May 2012. A new report from IMS Research (recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS)) has found that almost 40 percent of North American security systems integrators would prefer to deal with IT distributors when purchasing their IP-based video surveillance products. In Europe this figure surpasses 50% of systems integrators and
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Dear Colleague, Microsoft's Kinect peripheral for the Xbox 360 game console and Windows 7-based PCs singlehandedly brought awareness of vision-based applications such as gesture interfaces and facial recognition to the masses. It's also the embedded vision foundation for a plethora of other system implementations, either based on Microsoft's O/S and thereby leveraging the official Kinect
Embedded Vision Insights: May 15, 2012 Edition Read More +
By Brian Dipert Editor-In-Chief Embedded Vision Alliance Senior Analyst BDTI This article was originally published by Medical Design Technology. It is reprinted here with the permission of the original publisher. Embedded vision refers to the ability of equipment to extract meaning from (and appropriately respond to) visual inputs. It's quickly becoming the hottest trend in
Embedded Vision In Medicine: Let Smartphone Apps Inspire Your Design Decisions Read More +
I've gotten various writeups on this particular topic forwarded to me by several Embedded Vision Alliance contacts in the last several weeks, beginning with my boss and most recently including TI's Brian Carlson, so I'm apparently supposed to write about it 😉 And after doing the research, I've decided that New York University's Interactive Telecommunications
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As I've mentioned before (several times, in fact, along with publishing a demonstration video), various embedded vision-based systems are now appearing that assist you in selecting which clothing (and what sizes of that clothing) you should purchase. Thanks to Engadget, I'm able to now tell you that Fujitsu has taken fashion to the next level.
Makeup Selection: An Embedded Vision-Based Determination Read More +
File this one under "cool concept; unclear implementation fit." Microsoft Research and the University of Washington have partnered to develop SoundWave, a proof-of-concept system that leverages a computer's microphone and speaker combo to implement rudimentary gesture control. Doppler shifts, akin to those harnessed by sonar and astronomers, are at the root of the scheme. The
Gesture Interfaces Via Sound: Clever Ideas Abound Read More +
A recent "tweet" from the Google Android Twitter feed reminded me of a news topic I've long intended to mention: Galaxy Nexus lets you take stunning wide angle photos with a wave of your hand using Panorama mode in Android 4.0 The "wave of your hand" part is admittedly what caught my attention; I thought
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By Mukesh Kumar Marketing Director, Multicore Processors Texas Instruments This is a reprint of a Texas Instruments-published white paper, which is also available here (500 KB PDF). Introduction Meeting the needs of practically any conceivable type of vision application, TI has a wide selection of processors ranging from microprocessors based on ARM cores, to SoCs
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