Embedded Vision Insights: July 12, 2012 Edition

Dear Colleague,

As I write these words, final preparations are underway for next week's Embedded Vision Alliance Member Summit in Silicon Valley. If you're an Alliance member company representative, I look forward to seeing you again, or to meeting you for the first time if you're from one of the companies who've joined the Alliance since March (including the latest member addition, PointGrab). And for those of you who are part of the broader Embedded Vision Alliance community, I look forward to sharing video content with you after the Alliance Member Summit's conclusion. We plan to "film" the keynote by OpenCV guru Gary Bradski, the market trends presentation on surveillance systems by IMS Research's Jon Cropley, and the technology trends presentation on OpenCL by BDTI's Shehrzad Qureshi.

Several companies also plan to provide product demonstrations at the upcoming Alliance Member Summit, and we intend to "film" them for you, as well. Speaking of which…earlier this week I published demo videos from the March Alliance Member Summit, from Analog Devices, Apical, CEVA, CogniMem Technologies, The MathWorks, National Instruments, Omek Interactive, Texas Instruments, and Xilinx. They're all quite short, only a few minutes' each in length, and quite informative. I commend them to your inspection; you can find them in the Video Interviews & Demos section of the Alliance website.

In addition to wrapping up lingering loose ends ahead of next week's event, I've also been fine-tuning the website. You'll notice the next time you visit, for example, that the Embedded Vision Academy now has its own top-level menu entry at the top of each page, versus being relegated to one in a list of menu options under "About Embedded Vision," as it was initially. I hope that this appropriate elevation of the Academy's visibility will make it easier for you and your industry peers to access the useful content found in this free online training facility for embedded vision product developers. I've also added an extensive page of definitions for various embedded vision terminology; I welcome your feedback both on any terms I may have overlooked and on enhancements to existing terms' names and/or definitions.

And beginning next week, we'll be expanding both the site's press release and upcoming events pages to encompass announcements and activities not only of the Embedded Vision Alliance itself, but also from various Alliance member companies. More generally, as always, please let me know how the Embedded Vision Alliance website and other resources can more effectively address your needs. Thank you for your support of the Alliance, and for your interest in and contributions to embedded vision technologies, products and applications.

Brian Dipert
Editor-In-Chief, Embedded Vision Alliance

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