By Peter Voss, Marketing Manager for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Analog Devices This article was originally published by Hanser Automotive Magazine. It is reprinted here with the permission of the original publisher. Abstract Making the automotive environment safer by reducing injuries and fatalities is always a hot topic of the automotive industry, an aspiration that's […]
By Gaurav Agarwal, Frank Brill, Bruce Flinchbaugh, Branislav Kisacanin, Mukesh Kumar, and Jacek Stachurski Texas Instruments This is a reprint of a Texas Instruments-published white paper, which is also available here (2.1 MB PDF). Overview When a driver starts a car, he doesn’t think about starting an intelligent analytics system; sometimes, that’s precisely what he’s
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A recent "tweet" from the Google Android Twitter feed reminded me of a news topic I've long intended to mention: Galaxy Nexus lets you take stunning wide angle photos with a wave of your hand using Panorama mode in Android 4.0 The "wave of your hand" part is admittedly what caught my attention; I thought
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Jeff Bier, Founder of the Embedded Vision Alliance and co-founder and president of BDTI, moderates the panel discussion "Beyond Kinect; From Research to Revenue," at the March 2012 Embedded Vision Summit. Also participating are Jim Donlon (Project Manager, DARPA), Bruce Kleinman (Corporate Vice President, Platform Marketing, Xilinx), Bruce Flinchbaugh (Fellow and Manager of Vision R&D,
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Jim Donlon, Program Manager for DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) describes the objectives, to-date history, current status and future plans of the Mind's Eye program. Mind's Eye "seeks to develop the capability for visual intelligence by automating the ability to learn generally applicable and generative representations of action between objects in a
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In early August of last year, I pointed out that Microsoft had released the first public beta of its Kinect SDK for Windows in mid-June, followed by a Kinect-cognizant services suite for Robotics Developer Studio R3 in mid-July. And, at the end of September, I mentioned that Microsoft had unveiled a beta for the follow-on
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Ok, I admit to being a bit facetious with the subject line of this particular writeup. But I still think this is very cool. Thanks to MAKE Magazine, I'm now aware of an iPhone (and presumably also camera-inclusive iPad and iPod touch?) application called Resistor Photo ID, which "uses your iPhone's camera to help identify
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By Brian Dipert Editor-In-Chief Embedded Vision Alliance Senior Analyst BDTI This article was originally published in the First Quarter 2012 issue (PDF) of the Xilinx Xcell Journal. It is reprinted here with the permission of Xilinx. A jointly developed reference design validates the potential of Xilinx’s Zynq device in a burgeoning application category. By Brian
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Remember about two months ago, when I admittedly somewhat critically discussed the VideoSurf camera phone application that enabled the identification of video content currently being displayed on a television or computer monitor? Apparently, Microsoft was more enthusiastic about the technology than I was, because a few days ago the company reportedly acquired VideoSurf for $70
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By Paul Zoratti Driver Assistance Senior System Architect Automotive Division Xilinx Corporation This is a reprint of a Xilinx-published white paper which is also available here (344 KB PDF). In the last five years, the automotive industry has made remarkable advances in driver assistance (DA) systems that truly enrich the driving experience and provide drivers
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