Embedded Vision Insights: June 17, 2014 Edition

Dear Colleague,

Videos of presentations from the recent Embedded Vision Summit West have begun to appear on the Alliance website. We’ve just published the two outstanding keynotes delivered that day, from Facebook's Yann LeCun and Google's Nathaniel Fairfield, in the Embedded Vision Academy area of the site. LeCun wowed the crowd with demonstrations of object recognition implemented using the convolution neural network machine learning approach he discussed. And Fairfield's talk on Google’s self-driving cars was particularly timely given that Google had just announced its first internally developed autonomous vehicles.

In the Academy, you'll also find technical presentations on performance and energy optimization (from Cadence), object detector development (MathWorks), gesture interfaces (Qualcomm), real-time 3D object recognition (VanGogh Imaging), and algorithm programming on heterogeneous architectures (Xilinx). And plenty of additional material from the Summit is en route. Keep an eye out on the event's Content page for it. And if you sign up for the Alliance's Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter social media channels, along with its RSS feed, you'll receive proactive notification each time a new piece of content appears.

Of course, while you're on the Alliance website, make sure you check out all the other great new content published there in recent weeks. Thanks for your support of the Embedded Vision Alliance, and for your interest in and contributions to embedded vision technologies, products and applications. As always, I welcome your suggestions on what the Alliance can do to better service your needs.

Brian Dipert
Editor-In-Chief, Embedded Vision Alliance

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