In a recent news post, I told you about the upcoming Embedded Vision Summit West afternoon keynote "Self-Driving Cars" from Google's Nathaniel Fairfield, technical lead on the company's project team. Now I have the pleasure of telling you about the morning keynote, from Facebook's Yann LeCun. Facebook is a company already know to regular visitors […]

As mentioned in last Friday's writeup, "the past few weeks have been rich with depth-sensing smartphone news." Well, here comes another one. The above photo shows a claimed prototype of Amazon's coming-soon first smartphone, exclusively published by BGR (aka "Boy Genius Report"), a well-known tech enthusiast site originally spun off from Engadget and subsequently acquired

The past few weeks have been rich with depth-sensing smartphone news. Back in mid-March (with an early April follow-up), for example, I discussed HTC's One M8. And also in mid-March, I covered Google's Project Tango, showcasing 3D mapping and other compelling applications. A Project Tango prototype was disassembled by iFixit just the other day, in

The conference program for the upcoming Embedded Vision Summit West is complete and published on the Alliance website, and I hope you're as impressed with it as I am after perusing it. It includes two tracks' worth of technical presentations from fifteen Alliance member company representatives, along with hour-long keynotes from Facebook and Google…and don't

The numerous benefits of embedded vision-enhanced robotics systems are a subject that has been regularly covered on the Alliance website. See, for example: An article published at Embedded.com late last summer Presentations from National Instruments and the OpenCV Foundation at the April 2013 Embedded Vision Summit West The keynote from Professor Pieter Abbeel of the