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Selecting and Designing with an Image Sensor: The Tradeoffs You’ll Need to Master

Articles, BDTI, Sensors, Technical Articles / November 28, 2011

By Brian Dipert Editor-In-Chief Embedded Vision Alliance Senior Analyst BDTI A diversity of image sensor options are available for your consideration, differentiated both in terms of their fundamental semiconductor process foundations and of their circuit (and filter, microlens and other supplement) implementations. Understanding their respective strengths and shortcomings is critical to making an appropriate product […]

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Implementing Vision Capabilities in Embedded Systems

Algorithms, Articles, BDTI, Face Detection, Object Tracking, Processors, Software, Technical Articles / November 25, 2011

by Jeff Bier Founder and President, BDTI September 29, 2011 This paper was originally published at the 2011 Embedded Systems Conference Boston. Abstract—With the emergence of increasingly capable processors, it’s becoming practical to incorporate computer vision capabilities into a wide range of embedded systems, enabling them to analyze their environments via video inputs. Products like

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Automotive Driver Assistance Systems: Using the Processing Power of FPGAs

AMD, Articles, Automotive, Object Tracking, Processors, Technical Articles / November 25, 2011

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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Build A FaceBot

Articles, BDTI, Face Detection, Robotics, Software, Technical Articles / November 25, 2011

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

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Introduction To Computer Vision Using OpenCV (Article)

Algorithms, Articles, BDTI, Face Detection, Object Tracking, Software, Technical Articles, Tools / November 25, 2011

By Eric Gregori Senior Software Engineer and Embedded Vision Specialist BDTI The name OpenCV has become synonymous with computer vision, but what is OpenCV? OpenCV is a collection of software algorithms put together in a library to be used by industry and academia for computer vision applications and research (Figure 1). OpenCV started at Intel

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Challenges to Embedding Computer Vision

Algorithms, Articles, BDTI, Industrial Vision (Computer Vision), Technical Articles / November 25, 2011

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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September’s Initial Embedded Vision Alliance Member Summit: A Resounding Success

Articles, Edge AI and Vision Alliance, Technical Articles / October 17, 2011

By Brian Dipert Editor-In-Chief Embedded Vision Alliance Senior Analyst BDTI On September 20, representatives from 18 (of 20 to-date total) Embedded Vision Alliance member companies met in San Jose, CA at the facilities of Alliance member Xilinx. The daylong series of briefings, planning sessions and relationship-building opportunities were judged highly rewarding by all in attendance,

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How Does Camera Performance Affect Analytics?

Algorithms, Arm, Articles, Processors, Software, Technical Articles / September 2, 2011

By Michael Tusch Founder and CEO Apical Limited Camera designers have decades of experience in creating image processing pipelines which produce attractive and/or visually accurate images, but what kind of image processing produces video which is well-purposed for subsequent analytics? It seems reasonable to begin by considering a conventional ISP (image signal processor). After all,

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Design Guidelines for Embedded Real-Time Face Detection Applications

Algorithms, Articles, Ceva, Face Detection, Processors, Technical Articles / June 2, 2011

By Eldad Melamed Project Manager, Video Algorithms CEVA To read this article as a pdf file, click here. Much like the human visual system, embedded computer vision systems perform the same visual functions of analyzing and extracting information from video in a wide variety of products. In embedded portable devices such as Smartphones, digital cameras, and

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Lens Distortion Correction

Algorithms, Articles, BDTI, Software, Technical Articles / May 14, 2011

by Shehrzad Qureshi Senior Engineer, BDTI May 14, 2011 A typical processing pipeline for computer vision is given in Figure 1 below: The focus of this article is on the lens correction block. In less than ideal optical systems, like those which will be found in cheaper smartphones and tablets, incoming frames will tend to

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Technical Articles

Selecting and Designing with an Image Sensor: The Tradeoffs You’ll Need to Master

Implementing Vision Capabilities in Embedded Systems

Automotive Driver Assistance Systems: Using the Processing Power of FPGAs

Build A FaceBot

Introduction To Computer Vision Using OpenCV (Article)

Challenges to Embedding Computer Vision

September’s Initial Embedded Vision Alliance Member Summit: A Resounding Success

How Does Camera Performance Affect Analytics?

Design Guidelines for Embedded Real-Time Face Detection Applications

Lens Distortion Correction

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