Face Recognition Archives

Microsoft Kinect SDK Released, Robotics Developer Studio Kit Resurrected

Face Detection, Face Recognition, Gesture Control, Robotics / August 5, 2011

As noted in a news entry on on July 27, Microsoft's Craig and Don Mattrick (president of the Interactive Entertainment Business unit), announced at TechForum on February 21 the company's planned release of a non-commercial Kinect SDK later that spring. Developed by Microsoft Research in collaboration with IEB, this free download was intended to "give […]

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Facial Recognition: Increasing Adoption, Coupled With Privacy-Fueled Rebellion

Face Detection, Face Recognition, Privacy / July 29, 2011

As yesterday's post noted, embedded vision applications are rapidly broadening their reach beyond historical niches into widespread-adoption areas. Sometimes, this expansion occurs with the enthusiastic support of those being affected by it. Other times, though, the reaction isn't quite as sanguine. Such is the seeming case with facial recognition, which is the topic of an

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Avatar Kinect Hits The Xbox LIVE Marketplace: Facial Recognition Becomes Commonplace

Face Detection, Face Recognition, Gesture Control / July 26, 2011

Speaking of the Xbox 360…yesterday, Microsoft released Avatar Kinect, a capability first unveiled at Microsoft's early-January Consumer Electronics Show keynote and free to Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers (and to all Xbox 360 users through September 8) from Kinect Fun Labs. The Xbox 360 user interface has incorporated user-customizable Avatars since mid-November 2008; here's what currently

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Qualcomm Ramps Up Its Gesture Recognition Efforts Via GestureTek Asset Acquisition

Face Detection, Face Recognition, Gesture Control / July 25, 2011

Qualcomm Incorporated, a developer and licensor of wireless communications and mobile processing technologies, announced today that it has acquired a portion of the intellectual property assets of embedded vision pioneer GestureTek, along with "key engineering resources," focused on mobile applications. This is not an outright acquisition, however; GestureTek is "retaining other assets that relate to

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Most promising new application for Embedded Vision? Star Wars on Kinect.

Face Detection, Face Recognition, Gesture Control / June 10, 2011

We started a discussion in the Forums on Mass Effect 3, based on an E3 presentation. However, the application that might sell the most Kinects will probably be this Star Wars game. Join the forum discussion to help us analyze any insights into the future of gesture-based interfaces in more than just games. Courtesy of:

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