Information Access and Analytics Applications for Embedded Vision
September 2012 Embedded Vision Summit Presentation: “Introduction to Embedded Vision,” Jeff Bier, Embedded Vision Alliance
Jeff Bier, Founder of the Embedded Vision Alliance and co-founder and president of BDTI, presents the day-opening "Introduction to Embedded Vision" tutorial at the September 2012 Embedded Vision Summit. Topics discussed by Bier in his presentation include a technology overview, application examples, hardware, software and development tool trends, and an overview of the Embedded Vision
September 2012 Embedded Vision Summit Afternoon Keynote: Gary Bradski, OpenCV Foundation
Gary Bradski presents the afternoon keynote at the September 2012 Embedded Vision Summit. Bradski is President and CEO of the OpenCV Foundation and Founder and Chief Technical Officer of Industrial Perception Inc. The "father of OpenCV" (the Open Source Computer Vision Library), Bradski has been the director of its development for more than 14 years,
September 2012 Embedded Vision Summit Morning Keynote: Professor Rosalind Picard, MIT Media Lab
Professor Rosalind Picard presents the morning keynote at the September 2012 Embedded Vision Summit. Professor Picard is the founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, co-director of the Things That Think Consortium (the largest industrial sponsorship organization at the lab) and leader of the new and growing Autism
Making Commercials More Engaging: Embedded Vision’s Trying
Some of you may have been already following the recent spat of back-and-forth lawsuits between DISH Networks and a group of broadcasters. In brief, at January's CES (Consumer Electronics Show), DISH introduced a PVR (personal video recorder, also sometimes called a DVR aka digitial video recorder) called Hopper, which simultaneously recorded up to six programs
“Get Smart” With TI’s Embedded Analytics Technology
By Gaurav Agarwal, Frank Brill, Bruce Flinchbaugh, Branislav Kisacanin, Mukesh Kumar, and Jacek Stachurski Texas Instruments This is a reprint of a Texas Instruments-published white paper, which is also available here (2.1 MB PDF). Overview When a driver starts a car, he doesn’t think about starting an intelligent analytics system; sometimes, that’s precisely what he’s
Panorama Mode: Embedded Vision Processing Blends Pixels Together Via Microcode
A recent "tweet" from the Google Android Twitter feed reminded me of a news topic I've long intended to mention: Galaxy Nexus lets you take stunning wide angle photos with a wave of your hand using Panorama mode in Android 4.0 The "wave of your hand" part is admittedly what caught my attention; I thought
March 2012 Embedded Vision Alliance Summit Panel Discussion
Jeff Bier, Founder of the Embedded Vision Alliance and co-founder and president of BDTI, moderates the panel discussion "Beyond Kinect; From Research to Revenue," at the March 2012 Embedded Vision Summit. Also participating are Jim Donlon (Project Manager, DARPA), Bruce Kleinman (Corporate Vice President, Platform Marketing, Xilinx), Bruce Flinchbaugh (Fellow and Manager of Vision R&D,
Resistor Value Calculator: Best Embedded Vision Application Ever?
Ok, I admit to being a bit facetious with the subject line of this particular writeup. But I still think this is very cool. Thanks to MAKE Magazine, I'm now aware of an iPhone (and presumably also camera-inclusive iPad and iPod touch?) application called Resistor Photo ID, which "uses your iPhone's camera to help identify
Recent Acquisitions: Microsoft Reportedly Buys VideoSurf
Remember about two months ago, when I admittedly somewhat critically discussed the VideoSurf camera phone application that enabled the identification of video content currently being displayed on a television or computer monitor? Apparently, Microsoft was more enthusiastic about the technology than I was, because a few days ago the company reportedly acquired VideoSurf for $70
Cameras In Taxis: Driver Security, Or Monitoring With Impunity?
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
Surveillance Analytics: Consumer Success Stories Silence The Critics
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
Focusing On Blur
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
Embedded Vision: Primed To Take A Bite Out Of Crime
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
Citizen Surveillance: A Topic Fraught With Contentiousness
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
Google Goggles: One Of Many Cloud-Based Processing Examples
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
Website Analytics: Exceedingly Useful Webcam Analysis “Tricks”
I spent a few days at BDTI's Oakland office this week, as you already know if you saw last night's writeup on the interview with UC Berkeley's Jitendra Malik. Among other things, I had a face-to-face meeting with the folks who work on the Embedded Vision Alliance website. Stay tuned for more news on the
NEXCOM Whitepaper on Video Analytics using PC Hardware
Join the discussion and tell us whether you believe this is an embedded vision system. NEXCOM serves security markets with networked video recorders, and the newer devices include the intelligence for video analytics. However, these devices use centralized, rack-mounted hardware that resembles a PC Server. http://embeddedinnovator.com/2011/03/analog-surveillance-with-hd-and-analytic/
