Embedded Vision Insights: July 23, 2013 Edition

Dear Colleague,

Last Wednesday's Embedded Vision Alliance Member Meeting, held in San Jose, California at Aptina's headquarters, was as always a great opportunity for member company representatives to reconnect, network and advance the common embedded vision cause. Three of the presentations delivered that day are currently being edited for near-future publication on the Alliance website: the keynote on high-speed vision from Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa of Tokyo University (whose pioneering work I covered in a news writeup last year), the market trends presentation on consumer reactions to vision technology from John Feland of Argus Insights, and the image sensor technology trends presentation from Aptina's Curtis Stith. Subscribe to the Alliance's LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook social media channels, along with its RSS feed, for notification when the videos show up on the site.

One of the many pieces of good news that we were able to share with the membership last week was the addition of a new member company. Sony is a name doubtlessly familiar to most if not all of you; the company makes a range of still and video image capture systems, from dedicated cameras to smartphones and other devices. What fewer of you may also realize, however, is that the company's semiconductor division is also a leading supplier of camera components, such as image sensors and processors. Welcome, Sony, to the Embedded Vision Alliance! Several other members-to-be are in the process of wrapping up their membership paperwork; when they formally join, I'll be sure to alert you both via this newsletter and in on-site news writeups.

In the previous edition of Embedded Vision Insights, I mentioned the next Embedded Vision Summit, a technical educational forum for engineers interested in incorporating visual intelligence into electronic systems and software, to be held in the Boston, Massachusetts area on October 2. Today I'm pleased to announce the Summit keynote speaker: Mario Munich, Vice President of Advanced Development at iRobot. Mario has been a pioneer in creating vision-enabled consumer products, and his insights from that experience are sure to be relevant to engineers implementing vision in many kinds of cost-constrained applications.

I'm also excited to announce that, in conjunction with the Embedded Vision Summit, Analog Devices, Avnet and BDTI will be running their "Blackfin Embedded Vision Starter Kit Hands-on Workshop" on October 3. This workshop was recently held in San Jose, California, where it received excellent attendee evaluation scores. Registration is now open both for the Embedded Vision Summit and for the Blackfin workshop. Space is limited at both events, so register early.

Thanks as always for your support of the Embedded Vision Alliance, and for your interest in and contributions to embedded vision technologies, products and applications. I welcome your emailed suggestions on what the Alliance can do better, as well as what else the Alliance can do, to better service your needs.

Brian Dipert
Editor-In-Chief, Embedded Vision Alliance

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