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Sit Up Straight! A Webcam Turns Your Computer Display Into A Parental Surrogate

Poor posture is a topic that my poor mother constantly harped on me about as a child. And considering how poorly I'm sitting as I type these words, her efforts were largely for naught. Nonetheless, her spirit lives on in Philips' 24-inch ErgoSensor Monitor, which leverages a built-in front-facing image sensor and software developed by […]

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City Surveillance Projects – One Driver of Indian CCTV Market Growth

Wellingborough, UK (10 April 2012) –  In a recently published market report “The Indian Market for CCTV and Video Surveillance Equipment,” IMS Research, recently acquired by IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), forecasts that city surveillance will be the fastest growing vertical market in the country over the next five years. Such city surveillance projects have received

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The Analog Joystick: An Image Sensor-Plus-Accessory Combo Creates One That’s Slick

If you're not into videoconferencing but you're into gaming, researchers have come up with a clever alternative use for your smartphone's front-mounted camera. A rubberized accessory device mounted ahead of it, containing a patterned grid and able to let in sufficient light even with your finger on top of it, transforms the image sensor into

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Google’s Project Glass(es): A Further Loss Of Privacy With A Touch Of Class

Remember Google's augmented reality glasses, the rumors of which I mentioned back in late February? Well, they're real, as it turns out, at least in prototype form. They're under development by the same 'Google X Lab' that is working on the company's autonomous automobile…and it's not April 1st, so I'm not fooling (although that's not

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Facial Recognition Unlock: An iOS Jailbreak, And Samsung’s Photo Block

While perusing a video (shown below) which entices viewers to jailbreak their Apple handheld hardware (and was of interest to me only as a source of potential new apps to install…I've already jailbroken my two iPhone 4s, along with my fourth-generation iPod touch and first-generation iPad), I came across the above still frame and found

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Embedded Vision Insights: April 3, 2012 Edition

Dear Colleague, Last week's quarterly Embedded Vision Alliance Summit, held in Silicon Valley, was notably successful on several fronts. With nearly 50 member attendees representing nearly all of the Alliance companies, the Summit was an effective opportunity to touch base with existing business contacts, make new connections, exchange information, and strategize the way forward for

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HD Video Processing using Xilinx’s Zynq-7000 EPP for Intelligent Video Systems

Rapidly emerging applications in the area of embedded vision require ability to do real-time processing of one or more streams of HD video at high frame rates. In this demonstration, Xilinx's Navanee Sundaramoorthy, Product Manager for Processing Platforms, shows how you can use the Zynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform with dual ARM Cortex-A9 processors and programmable

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Processing Options For Implementing Vision Capabilities in Embedded Systems

By Jeff Bier Founder Embedded Vision Alliance Co-Founder and President BDTI This article was originally published on Altera's Technology Center. It is reprinted here with the permission of Altera. With the emergence of increasingly capable processors, image sensors, memories and other semiconductor devices, along with associated algorithms, it's becoming practical to incorporate computer vision capabilities

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