Added to this year's Embedded Vision Summit are sessions focused on computer vision business opportunities, market trends, and applications. They're tailored for engineering and corporate management attendees, along with analysts, editors, and others who don't require in-depth technology details but are instead interested in application and market overview information and other bigger-picture topics. The first three of these session presenters, along with their detailed biographies and planned talk topics and abstracts, are now published on the event speaker page.
Andy Chang is a senior manager for academic research at National Instruments, a hardware and software tools developer for vision and other applications. The topic of Andy's planned presentation is "Enabling the Factory of the Future with Embedded Vision"; his talk will explore how vision is being used today, and how it will be used in the near future, to enable advanced manufacturing capabilities.
Simon Morris is the CEO of CogniVue, a vision processing IP supplier. A key market focus at CogniVue, ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems), is currently one of the hottest application segments in embedded vision. Simon's planned talk topic is "Trends, Challenges and Opportunities in Vision-Based Automotive Safety and Autonomous Driving Systems"; the presentation will provide an overview of embedded vision for automotive safety, focusing on key requirements, trends, and challenges, and ways that these challenges can be met.
The third to-date published business track presenter is Michael Tusch, Founder and CEO of Apical Limited, a UK-based company specializing in image and video processing technology. At the May 2015 Embedded Vision Summit, Michael plans to talk about "Using Vision to Create Smarter Consumer Devices with Improved Privacy"; he will explore what types of visual intelligence are currently feasible in consumer devices, and how this will evolve in the near future.
Below you'll find the video of Michael's interview with Embedded Vision Alliance Founder Jeff Bier on the eve of the public launch of Apical's Assertive Engine embedded vision processing core. Assertive Vision is a real-time detection, classification and tracking engine capable of accurate analysis of people and other objects. With the Assertive Engine, Apical formally expanded its business beyond conventional image processing into embedded vision processing.
In addition to these new business-focused presentations, the Embedded Vision Summit agenda will include numerous technical sessions, along with two keynote talks and a product showcase. The Embedded Vision Summit takes place on May 12, 2015 at the Santa Clara (California) Convention Center; accompanying partial- and full-day workshops will occur on both May 11 and 13. Register today, while the "early bird" limited-time 20% discount is still available!