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This blog post was originally published at Vision Systems Design's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of PennWell. In last week's column, while discussing the use of embedded vision in ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems) and autonomous vehicles, I wrote: Supplemental sensor technologies such as radar or LIDAR (light detection and ranging) will […]

This blog post was originally published at Vision Systems Design's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of PennWell. In last week's column, I used two case studies, robotic vacuum cleaners and drones, to illustrate the perhaps surprising power consumption savings that can be obtained by adding computer vision capabilities to a system design.

This blog post was originally published in the mid-April 2016 edition of BDTI's InsideDSP newsletter. It is reprinted here with the permission of BDTI. We've been hearing a lot about autonomous cars lately – and for good reasons. Driverless cars offer enormous opportunities for improved safety, convenience, and efficiency. Their proliferation may have as profound

This blog post was originally published at Vision Systems Design's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of PennWell. Conventional thinking might suggest that adding more hardware to a system design, or boosting the performance of the hardware, would cause the system to consume more power. While this cause-and-effect relationship pans out in many

This blog post was originally published at Vision Systems Design's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of PennWell. The fully autonomous vehicle trials underway by established automobile companies such as Ford and GM, along with upstarts such as Baidu and Google (and, persistent rumors suggest, Apple) may capture the bulk of popular attention.

This blog post was originally published at Vision Systems Design's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of PennWell. As the recent 4-to-1 drubbing of Go world champion Lee Sedol by Google's DeepMind AlphaGo program signifies, artificial intelligence has entered mainstream awareness. It's enabled by the evolution of traditional neural network approaches, the steadily

This blog post was originally published in the late March 2016 edition of BDTI's InsideDSP newsletter. It is reprinted here with the permission of BDTI. It's no secret that sensors are proliferating. Our smartphones, for example, contain accelerometers, magnetometers, ambient light sensors, microphones – over a dozen distinct types of sensors. A modern automobile contains

This blog post was originally published at Vision Systems Design's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of PennWell. I'm Brian Dipert, the Editor-in-Chief of the Embedded Vision Alliance, and I'd like to welcome you to this new blog published through a partnership between Vision Systems Design and the Embedded Vision Alliance. On a

This blog post was originally published at videantis' website. It is reprinted here with the permission of videantis. For the first time in its history, the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona welcomed more than 100,000 visitors, most of them in suits. We visit quite a few shows, and one of the things that stands out

This blog post was originally published in the early February 2016 edition of BDTI's InsideDSP newsletter. It is reprinted here with the permission of BDTI. Today, billions of hours of video are collected each year, but most of it is never used, because we don't have a practical way to extract actionable information from it.