Coming up soon (less than a month away, to be precise, as I write this post on September 9) is the second annual East Coast iteration of the Embedded Vision Summit, a free day-long technical educational forum to be held on October 2, 2013 at the Regency Inn and Conference Center in Westford, Massachusetts. Hopefully, many have you have already perused the presentation videos and downloadable slide sets from the September 2012 Summit in Boston, Massachusetts, as well as the streamed and downloadable content from the April 2013 Summit in San Jose, California. Next month's event promises to be even bigger and better!
The Embedded Vision Summit is designed to:
- Provide engaging, high-quality technical presentations (not sales pitches!) that will inspire engineers to create new and improved products using embedded vision technology
- Offer practical know-how to help engineers incorporate vision capabilities into their designs, and
- Provide opportunities to meet and talk with leading embedded vision technology suppliers and technologists, and see exciting demos of some of the latest technology
Registration for the Embedded Vision Summit East only costs $99, and qualified attendees include engineers (with preference given to system, SoC, and application software engineers working in industry), invited press and analysts, and Alliance Member company representatives. Others (including students) will be admitted on a space-available basis. Space is limited; advance registration is required and early registration is recommended. Submit your registration application on the Alliance web site.
The Summit, organized by the Embedded Vision Alliance, will provide a unique opportunity for engineers to learn about the hottest technology in the electronics industry, embedded computer vision, which enables "machines that see and understand." This event will include a series of "how-to" presentations, demonstrations, along with a keynote talk by Mario E. Munich, Vice President of Advanced Development at iRobot. An additional special presentation will come from Mike Geertsen, program manager at DARPA, who will discuss two general-purpose vision system development tools which the organization and its contractors will soon make widely available on an open source basis.
A listing of the technical presentations and their associated presenters and companies can be found on the Embedded Vision Summit overview page. Also available for your perusal are presenter biographies, along with more detailed descriptions of some of the presentations. An agenda overview is already published; a more detailed agenda of the day's events will appear shortly.
Finally, don't forget about the two half-day hands-on workshops sponsored by Embedded Vision Alliance member companies on October 3, the day after the Embedded Vision Summit East:
- From 8:30AM-1:30PM (including an optional 1-hour complimentary lunch), Embedded Vision Alliance members Analog Devices, Avnet Electronics Marketing and BDTI will co-present a workshop exploring hardware and software for image processing and video analytics, featuring the Avnet/Analog Devices Embedded Vision Starter Kit. This workshop is an excellent starting point for vision application developers interested in exploring a wide range of embedded vision applications.
- That same day, from 1:00PM-5:00PM, Alliance members Avnet Electronics Marketing and Xilinx will co-present a workshop introducing SoC application development with a specific focus on embedded vision using the Xilinx Vivado Design Suite to target the Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC. An OpenCV example will be used to demonstrate how a software implementation of an embedded vision application can be accelerated by building a custom hardware accelerator on the Zynq SoC’s programmable fabric, achieving 1080P60 at 1W power consumption.
