Every time I discuss the topics of "facial recognition" and "digital cameras" in the same breath, Jeff Bier validly corrects me. That's because while cameras nowadays commonly do facial detection, i.e. identifying people in a scene and adjusting exposure, focus and other settings to optimize their digital image reproduction, they don't identify specific individuals… …until […]
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Back in early November, I wrote about Bodymetrics' scanning booth, installed in London's Westfield Stratford shopping mall, which recommends the ideal pair of jeans after you strip to your skivvies and let it scan your bod. Within that same writeup, I also talked about UPcloud, whose product works with your computer webcam to enable surprise-free
Online Clothes Shopping: Bodymetrics’ PrimeSense-Enabled Offering Read More +
In recent weeks, I've discussed Tobii's eye-tracking technology several times, both for its ability to monitor driver attention in vehicles, and to control next-generation operating systems' graphical user interfaces. As I mentioned last week, Tobii demonstrated its Gaze software for Windows 8 at the Consumer Electronics Show, and Engadget got a chance to take it
Eye-Tracking Technology: A Tobii Demonstration and Freescale’s Aspiration Read More +
Parrot's first-generation AR.Drone has proven to be (along with quad-rotors from other companies such as Ascending Technologies) a popular platform for implementing autonomous flight and other embedded vision algorithms in both hobbyist and academic research settings. Check out, for example, the following video: Key to the device's market success, among other factors, is its reasonably
The Parrot AR.Drone 2.0: Upgraded Video Capture Steals The (Consumer Electronics) Show Read More +
The persistent rumors of an impending Apple-branded television (likely integrating, among other things, the functionality of today's standalone Apple TV STB) seemingly has other consumer electronics manufacturers motivated to get out in front of the folks at One Infinite Loop, judging from the news coming out of Las Vegas. Although Logitech's Google TV experiment wasn't
A Living Room (Embedded) Vision: Samsung Brings Image Sensors To The Television Read More +
As I previously mentioned in a technical article published to the Embedded Vision Alliance site last August, the Bayer Pattern (named after Eastman Kodak's Bryce E. Bayer, its inventor) is by far the most common filter array pattern used with both CCDs and CMOS image sensors. Containing 50% green filters, 25% red filters and 25%
A Six-By-Six Pixel Cluster: Fujifilm Take Another Stab At The Image Sensor Read More +
Government regulation coupled with manufacturer motivation seems to be building a "perfect storm" that's poised to push image sensors and vision processors into automobiles in a big way, specifically for driver-assistance purposes (rear-view augmentation, front-view collision avoidance, lane departure warnings, and the like). That's all well and good for new vehicle makes and models, of
Steve Ballmer's CES-officially-opening keynote is under way as I type this, but thanks to the liveblogs of folks such as Engadget and The Verge (not to mention the Microsoft-served live video stream), I'm able to keep up even though I'm not in attendance in Las Vegas. One tidbit that I just saw is particularly relevant
Microsoft Kinect’s Increasingly Upbeat Fate: Sales, Hardware And Software Updates Read More +
It's probably not surprising to any close follower of technology that the Ultrabook form factor snagged center stage at Intel's press briefing earlier today. Taking a page from Apple's MacBook Air, which is based on Intel CPUs, and hoping to steal the thunder from Apple and others' tablets, most of which are not currently based
Intel’s Ultrabook Gesture Interface Cues: For EVA Followers, They’re Old News Read More +
Back in late October, I mentioned a number of filed-and-granted Apple patents related to embedded vision. Following in the footsteps of Google and Nokia , the company has registered patent protection for a facial recognition-based system login scheme (at least according to 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, and VentureBeat). Next
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