By Eric Gregori Senior Software Engineer and Embedded Vision Specialist BDTI Face tracking or face detection is an exciting field in embedded vision. With a simple web camera, some free open source software, and a fun animatronic head kit from Robodyssey Systems, FaceBot will introduce you to face detection and tracking using the easy to […]
By J. Scott Gardner April 8, 2011 To read this article as a pdf file, click here. For many of us, the idea of computer vision was first imagined as the unblinking red lens through which a computer named HAL spied on the world around itself in 2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clark
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As I write this, I'm recalling a particularly entertaining cab ride I took a couple of years ago at the January Consumer Electronics Show, from the airport to my hotel at the beginning of the week. I pointed out what looked like a camera installed in the rear-view mirror, and the driver confirmed that my
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As I mentioned in my October 16 post-mortem article covering the successful mid-September Embedded Vision Alliance Summit, the next Summit will be on December 6 in Dallas, TX, generously sponsored by Texas Instruments. Alliance members, please submit your RSVPs soon! Earlier this morning, Jeff Bier and I held an introductory meeting with the person who'll
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As my end-of-August technical article "Selecting and Designing with an Image Sensor: The Tradeoffs You'll Need to Master" points out, the burgeoning pixel counts of modern sensors are beginning to outstrip the resolution requirements of most camera and cameraphone users, particularly if the digital zoom feature isn't heavily employed, the images aren't substantially cropped, and/or
As I've mentioned with past regularity, video surveillance and analytics technology is increasingly being used by law enforcement agencies worldwide to assist in the identification and prosecution of wrongdoers; via facial recognition, for example, or emotion discernment, or database searches for clothing matches, or license plate optical character recognition. And other, not-yet-discussed implementations of the
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In one of yesterday's posts, I mentioned the array of cameras installed (with more planned) in Lower Manhattan. If Mayor Michael Bloomberg has his way, New York City will have even more cameras than these, specifically to identify and prosecute drivers who run red lights and exceed the speed limit on streets. While embedded vision
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Last weekend, I spent a few hours catching up on some recent-past television recordings. As usual, I was multitasking, but I put the magazines and laptop aside when one particular segment from the September 25th edition of 60 Minutes appeared on-screen. Entitled "The Counter-Terrorism Bureau", here's how the show's website describes it: Scott Pelley brings
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Back in early August on this site, as well as a few weeks later in BDTI's monthly email newsletter, I mentioned that Microsoft had recently made two notable embedded vision announcements: Releasing the Kinect SDK for Windows Beta in mid-June, followed by Unveiling the Kinect Services suite for Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3 in mid-July
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My previous writeup points out that Anthony Oliver, Chief Technology Officer at Ingenuitas, sees built-in support for server-side processing of image data captured by a low-tech, inexpensive camera as one of the key benefits of his company's championed SimpleCV API. His quote reminded me that Google recently updated the Goggles app for Android, adding optional
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