Back in late February, I told you that Jitendra Malik, Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at the University of California at Berkeley, was planning on shortly beginning a free online course on computer vision. Well, that time is now. Here is the content of an email we received yesterday: The computer vision course is […]
Computer Vision: The Free Online Class Has Begun Read More +
By Sateesh Reddy Jonnalagada and Vamsi Krishna Xilinx Corporation Embedded vision applications deal with a lot of data; a single 1080p60 (1920×1080 pixel per frame, 60 frames per second) 24-bit color video stream requires nearly 3 Gbps of bandwidth, and 8-bit alpha (transparency) or 3-D depth data further amplifies the payload by 33% in each
Designing High-Performance Video Systems in 7 Series FPGAs with the AXI Interconnect Read More +
Jim Donlon, Program Manager for DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) describes the objectives, to-date history, current status and future plans of the Mind's Eye program. Mind's Eye "seeks to develop the capability for visual intelligence by automating the ability to learn generally applicable and generative representations of action between objects in a
March 2012 Embedded Vision Alliance Summit Keynote: Jim Donlon, DARPA Read More +
Dear Colleague, I'm admittedly feeling pretty good right now. That's because I've just reviewed the attendee feedback from the late-March Embedded Vision Alliance Summit, and the strong ratings and positive supporting comments combine to confirm my gut feel that it was an extremely valuable event for Alliance members and press-and-analyst attendees alike. To the latter
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By Michael Tusch Founder and CEO Apical Limited At the late-March 2012 Embedded Vision Alliance Summit, Eric Gregori and Shehrzad Qureshi from BDTI presented a helpful overview of CCD and CMOS image sensor technology. I thought it might be interesting to extend this topic to cover so-called HDR (High Dynamic Range) / WDR (Wide Dynamic
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By Dong-Ik Ko (Lead Engineer, Gesture Recognition and Depth-Sensing) and Gaurav Agarwal (Manager, Gesture Recognition and Depth-Sensing) Texas Instruments This is a reprint of a Texas Instruments-published white paper, which is also available here (2.6 MB PDF). Introduction Over the past few years, gesture recognition has made its debut in entertainment and gaming markets. Now,
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Facial recognition software developer Face.com has been in the news quite a lot in recent months. Back in late January, for example, the company launched a free iOS-based app called KLIK which "uses face recognition to let you quickly tag your friends in real-time. Fire up KLIK and watch as your friends' names instantly appear
Identity, Age And Emotion: Facial Recognition Garners Abundant Promotion Read More +
Remember my writeup of a few weeks ago, wherein I noted that the Terms of Service in Samsung's new TVs (containing image sensors, microphones, and networking transceivers) included a clause allowing third-party apps to make use of the monitoring system, and use the data gathered for their own purposes? Well, thanks to another Slashdot post,
Samsung’s Message To The Worried: Don’t Be So Paranoid Read More +
Brian Dipert, Editor-In-Chief of the Embedded Vision Alliance, interviews Colin Duggan, Analog Devices Director of Marketing. Brian and Colin discuss Analog Devices' newly announced and embedded vision-optimized Blackfin SoCs and the company's recent Embedded Vision Alliance membership upgrade to the Platinum tier. More generally, Brian and Colin talk about Analog Devices' perspectives on, and plans
Embedded Vision Alliance Conversation with Colin Duggan of Analog Devices Read More +
Wellingborough, UK (11 April 2012) – IMS Research, recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), announced today that it is a partner in the PSA Business Solutions program, a suite of value-added resources for security professionals. PSA Security Network owners and customers can now receive discounts on IMS Research’s Security Executive Insights reports. These reports
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