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September 26, 2012
The Cyber-Circus: A Google-Powered Gesture Interface Showcase

Earlier this year, during a keynote at the Google I/O developer conference, company representatives demonstrated an under-development HTML5- and CSS-based web application called Movi.Kanti.Revo, co-developed with Cirque du Soleil. As of a week ago, it's now available for you to try out for yourself.

September 25, 2012
High Resolution, Human Cognition: A Seemingly Effective Surveillance Combination

Back in mid-April, I shared with you the video of the March 2012 Embedded Vision Alliance Member Summit keynote from Jim Donlon, a Program Manager for DARPA (the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).

September 23, 2012
Embedded Vision In Boston: A Retrospective And An Upcoming Additional Perspective

This past week was a notable one for the Embedded Vision Alliance. Jeff Bier and Eric Gregori represented the Alliance in three presentations at the Embedded Vision Alliance, one of them also showcasing demonstrations from Analog Devices, Texas Instruments and Xilinx.

September 16, 2012
Embedded Vision May Soon Help Fetch The Definition Of Your Etch-A-Sketch

Those of you with children may sometimes find yourselves challenged to correctly identify the objects in art "masterpieces" created by your offspring ("That's a great cow...or is it a horse? Oh...it's a dog...now I see..."). Soon (if not now), according to researchers at Brown University and the Technical University of Berlin, you might be able to harness computer cognizance to assist your association efforts.

September 16, 2012
Gesture Interfaces, Facial Recognition: Intel Gets Embedded Vision

Apple's unveiling of the iPhone 5 (along with other related announcements) wasn't the only notable tech news this past week. Intel also held its yearly U.S. Developer Forum, and Dadi Perlmutter's Tuesday morning keynote showcased several notable embedded vision demonstrations.

September 14, 2012
Apple's iPhone 5: The Smartphone As An Embedded Vision Platform Continues To Thrive

As many of you likely already realize, Apple announced two new camera-inclusive handhelds on Wednesday, the iPhone 5 smartphone (shown above, and also available in black) and the fifth-generation iPod touch. Both represent notable upgrades from their predecessors, both in terms of their image sensors and the image processing hardware connected to them.

September 7, 2012
VanGogh Imaging: The Embedded Vision Alliance Keeps Expanding

In Saturday's writeup, I mentioned that two companies had recently joined the Embedded Vision Alliance, Synopsys and VanGogh Imaging.

September 1, 2012
Synopsys And Embedded Vision: A Multi-Faceted Product Line

If you've looked closely at the Embedded Vision Alliance member page beginning earlier today, you might have noticed two new entries; Synopsys and VanGogh Imaging. Welcome to both companies!

August 30, 2012
An Upcoming Embedded Vision System Teardown: Xilinx's Zynq-7000 EPPs Take Next Week's Webcast Crown

If you've been following Xilinx's content contributions to the Embedded Vision Alliance website, you know that the company views its Xynq-7000 Extensible Processing Platform SoCs containing ARM Cortex-A9 processor cores as

August 28, 2012
Samsung's Vision-Enhanced TVs: More Work To Do, It Seems

Samsung's "smart" televisions have received ongoing coverage here at the news section of the Embedded Vision Alliance website, since their unveiling at January's Consumer Electronics Show.