Austin, Texas (July 9th, 2013)—The elusive goal of integration in the intrusion industry is beginning to gain realistic momentum with the growing trend to combine home automation and home security systems, on a single platform, according to a recent study titled “The World Maker for Intruder Alarms – 2013 Edition” by IMS Research, now part […]
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In this edition of Embedded Vision Insights: Upcoming October 2 Embedded Vision Summit in Boston Finding Objects Using Canny Edge Detection City Surveillance Market Growth Embedded Vision in the News LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Dear Colleague, The Silicon Valley edition of the Embedded Vision Summit, a series of technical educational forums for engineers interested in
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For those of you who haven't already heard, Microsoft unveiled its next-generation Xbox One game console in late May, containing a bundled next-generation "Kinect 2.0" peripheral. Whereas the first-generation Kinect employs a structured light approach to 3-D sensing, "Kinect 2.0" leverages a time-of-flight technique courtesy of Microsoft's 2010 acquisition of Canesta. The included image sensor
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Ever since the first news of Leap Motion's coming-soon gesture interface peripheral became public, I've been particularly curious to find out the answers to two architecture questions: How much processing is done locally on the device, versus in the USB-tethered computer, and What 3-D sensing scheme is the device based on: a stereo sensor array,
Embedded Vision Alliance founder Jeff Bier sure has been racking up the frequent traveler points of late. Just a few days ago, for example, he presented at two workshops associated with the IEEE CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) Conference in Portland, Oregon. And in early August, he'll be headed to the Austin, Texas Convention
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El Segundo, Calif. (June 24, 2013)—The global market for electronic security equipment aimed at city surveillance applications will more than double in size from 2012 to 2017 as metropolitan areas adopt mobile technology to deal with threats more efficiently, according to a new report from IMS Research, now part of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS). Worldwide,
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In this edition of Embedded Vision Insights: Compelling Testimonials In a New Video What Can You Do with Embedded Vision? Streamlining the Creation of "Machines that See" Embedded Vision in the News LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Dear Colleague, Last time, I mentioned that nearly 12 hours' worth of content from the April Embedded Vision Alliance
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I've written on multiple occasions about the myriad opportunities for leveraging mobile electronics systems such as cameraphones and tablets as powerful, low cost, abundant embedded vision platforms. Specifically, in several cases, I've discussed harnessing such devices to implement various ADAS (advanced driver assistance systems) capabilities, as an alternative to dedicated-function hardware…a product called iOnRoad, for
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A bit more than a year ago, I published a news writeup that covered an alternative (i.e. non-vision-based) gesture interface derived from the partnership work of Microsoft Research and the University of Washington. I wrote: SoundWave [is] a proof-of-concept system that leverages a computer's microphone and speaker combo to implement rudimentary gesture control. Doppler shifts,
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London (June 12th, 2013)—Milestone Systems and Genetec last year were evenly matched as the top suppliers of video management software (VMS) in a market worth more than half a billion dollars, according to a new report on video surveillance equipment from IMS Research, now part of IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS). The global VMS market for
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