Embedded Vision Insights: February 11, 2014 Edition

Dear Colleague,

Last time, I had the pleasure of passing along the news that online registration for the upcoming Embedded Vision Summit West was live on the Alliance website. This time, I'm happy to share with you some key aspects of the conference program. The Embedded Vision Summit West, a technical educational forum for engineers interested in incorporating visual intelligence into electronic systems and software, will take place on May 29 in Santa Clara, California.

The conference's opening keynote will be delivered by Yann LeCun, a seminal figure in computer vision research and applications. LeCun is Director of AI Research at Facebook and Silver Professor of Data Science, Computer Science, Neural Science, and Electrical Engineering at New York University. His talk is a don't-miss opportunity to gain unique insights into image recognition challenges and techniques. More generally, the Alliance has just published a preliminary technical program agenda for the day. Regularly monitor the website for coming-soon details on the afternoon keynote and various technical presentations, as well as information on the half- and full-day workshops to be held the prior day, May 28.

As I noted last time, an "Early Bird" reduced registration fee of $149 for the Embedded Vision Summit West is only available through February 28, so don't delay in registering. This year’s Summit is co-located with the Augmented World Expo (AWE), and Embedded Vision Summit attendees may obtain an AWE Exhibits-Only Pass for only $20, an 80% discount. Just add the AWE Exhibits-Only Pass to your online registration submission for the Embedded Vision Summit.

While you're on the Alliance website, make sure you check out all the new content published there the past two weeks, including four demonstration videos from January's Consumer Electronics Show, a contributed article on embedded vision in ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems), contributed blog posts on face analysis and pedestrian detection, and multiple market analysis reports and press releases. 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. Whenever you come up with an idea as to how the Alliance can better service your needs, you know where to find me.

Brian Dipert
Editor-In-Chief, Embedded Vision Alliance

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