Brian Dipert

Earlier this month, I pointed out several advancements in motion capture technology that had been made at the in-progress SIGGRAPH conference. Today, with thanks to Slashdot for the heads-up, I'll pass along another SIGGRAPH-delivered announcement, this one in the surface visualization technology space. From MIT News on August 9: Traditionally, generating micrometer-scale images has required

I hope you'll indulge a brief divergence from 'pure' embedded vision topics, because I just can't resist sharing a highlight clip from the upcoming snowboarding film The Art Of Flight with you. For one thing, the footage was shot with a precursor to the Vision Research Phantom camera systems that I showcased a week ago.

Randall Munroe's web comic xkcd, which comes out every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, is admittedly one of my favorite Internet-delivered diversions. It's always entertaining and clever (IMHO, although not everyone seems to agree), and particularly popular with the techie community, albeit sometimes a bit obscure…thereby rationalizing the existence of sites such as Explain XKCD. And

Not so very long ago, I remember how pleased I was to learn that my first digital SLR, Pentax's *ist D, was capable of 2.7 fps burst capture speeds (for up-to-5 frame JPG bursts). How time flies; Pentax's latest high-end "35mm" DSLR, the K-5, does 7 fps (for up to 22 JPGs or 8 RAWs)

Yesterday morning, Embedded Vision Alliance founder Jeff Bier and I had the honor and pleasure of spending around an hour with Jitendra Malik, Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at the University of California at Berkeley for the past 25 years and one of the world's foremost computer vision researchers. I hope to have the