By Eric Gregori Senior Software Engineer and Embedded Vision Specialist BDTI Face tracking or face detection is an exciting field in embedded vision. With a simple web camera, some free open source software, and a fun animatronic head kit from Robodyssey Systems, FaceBot will introduce you to face detection and tracking using the easy to […]
By Eric Gregori Senior Software Engineer and Embedded Vision Specialist BDTI The name OpenCV has become synonymous with computer vision, but what is OpenCV? OpenCV is a collection of software algorithms put together in a library to be used by industry and academia for computer vision applications and research (Figure 1). OpenCV started at Intel
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By J. Scott Gardner April 8, 2011 To read this article as a pdf file, click here. For many of us, the idea of computer vision was first imagined as the unblinking red lens through which a computer named HAL spied on the world around itself in 2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clark
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By Brian Dipert Editor-In-Chief Embedded Vision Alliance Senior Analyst BDTI On September 20, representatives from 18 (of 20 to-date total) Embedded Vision Alliance member companies met in San Jose, CA at the facilities of Alliance member Xilinx. The daylong series of briefings, planning sessions and relationship-building opportunities were judged highly rewarding by all in attendance,
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By Michael Tusch Founder and CEO Apical Limited Camera designers have decades of experience in creating image processing pipelines which produce attractive and/or visually accurate images, but what kind of image processing produces video which is well-purposed for subsequent analytics? It seems reasonable to begin by considering a conventional ISP (image signal processor). After all,
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By Eldad Melamed Project Manager, Video Algorithms CEVA To read this article as a pdf file, click here. Much like the human visual system, embedded computer vision systems perform the same visual functions of analyzing and extracting information from video in a wide variety of products. In embedded portable devices such as Smartphones, digital cameras, and
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by Shehrzad Qureshi Senior Engineer, BDTI May 14, 2011 A typical processing pipeline for computer vision is given in Figure 1 below: The focus of this article is on the lens correction block. In less than ideal optical systems, like those which will be found in cheaper smartphones and tablets, incoming frames will tend to
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