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Computer vision technology is complementing GPS sensors in addressing the quest to support autonomous flying features such as object tracking, environment sensing, and collision avoidance. However, 4K video (now a must-have feature for image capture) and other functions such as 3D depth map creation pose significant computational challenges for the high quality image- and video-processing […]

This blog post was originally published in the December 2015 edition of BDTI's InsideDSP newsletter. It is reprinted here with the permission of BDTI. Since reading Malcolm Gladwell's Blink a decade ago, I've been intrigued by how the mind works – particularly how judgements and decisions are made. I've been inspired to take an armchair

This blog post was originally published at Cadence's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Cadence. Image and vision processing require a tremendous amount of processing power, not to mention a large amount of memory bandwidth. And when you consider the mobile and wearable devices that utilize these functions, it’s clear why low

Computer vision applications, unlike traditional image processing, employ a heterogeneous mix of algorithms with a great diversity of control flows and memory access patterns. Therefore, vision processors are naturally evolving towards complex architectures that include, besides the CPU and GPU-like arrays of processing units, dedicated hardware blocks that specialize on certain portions of computer vision

This blog post was originally published at Cadence's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Cadence. We’re not yet riding in driverless cars, yet today’s vehicles are doing more for us than perhaps Henry Ford could have imagined. From pedestrian detection to driver monitoring, parking assistance and infotainment systems, these features are making

This blog post was originally published at Auviz Systems' website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Auviz Systems. Since I spend my summers in New England, I often look for ways to tap into the technology community there. We have been doing a lot of work at Auviz on Deep Learning and are

This blog post was originally published at Auviz Systems' website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Auviz Systems. I recently had a chance to spend a day with dozens of my favorite fellow embedded vision geeks. Once a quarter, the Embedded Vision Alliance holds a member meeting, where we spend the day networking

This blog post was originally published in the September 2015 edition of BDTI's InsideDSP newsletter. It is reprinted here with the permission of BDTI. "The economy, stupid" was one of the phrases that strategist James Carville hung on a sign in Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign headquarters – a reminder to focus on what's most

This blog post was originally published at CEVA's website. It is reprinted here with the permission of CEVA. The trade media is abuzz with speculations that the iPhone 7 is going to incorporate 3D vision using dual rear-facing cameras and add depth-sensing capability for mapping out 3D environments and tracking body movements and facial expressions.

This blog post was originally published at videantis' website. It is reprinted here with the permission of videantis. The title of this blog post is one of the takeaways from the Image Sensor Auto conference that I reported on last month. There is no doubt cars will simply become robots that take us places, but