Brian Dipert

Smartphones and tablets are compelling platforms for implementing embedded vision applications for numerous reasons, as I've already written and spoken about on several past occasions. High-resolution image sensors combine with robust application processors (often containing dedicated image processor and/or DSP cores) and equally robust operating systems and APIs, and high shipment volumes and service provider […]

Kudos to Gizmodo for the heads-up on a just-published, very informative video by Computerphile, shown above. It captures an interview with several researchers from Nottingham Trent University's Interactive Systems Research Group in the United Kingdom. With clinical medical applications (such as use by stroke victims) in mind, they've developed a prototype gesture interface system that

Elon Musk is, I've concluded, the closest thing to Leonardo Da Vinci or another Renaissance Man that we have in modern times. After initially starting web publishing company Zip2 with his brother, Musk transitioned to even greater success in subsequent (and better known) ventures; c-founder of PayPal and Tesla Motors, founder of SpaceX, chairman of

Intel's aspirations to evolve the means by which we interact with computers beyond the conventional keyboard, mouse and trackpad, specifically extending the "vision" (pun intended) to capabilities such as gestures, gaze tracking and face recognition, are well documented at this point. The company publicly demonstrated its aspirations at the January 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, for