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August 9, 2012
The Embedded Vision Summit: Space is Limited, So Register Now, Don't Wait!

The Embedded Vision Summit is coming up soon. It's September 19, to be exact, at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts, in conjunction with DESIGN East.  The Summit, organized by the Embedded Vision Alliance, will provide a unique opportunity for engineers to learn about embedded vision, the hottest technology in the electronics industry, enabling “machines that see and understand.”

August 2, 2012
Vision-Superior Robot Trumps Humans At Rock-Paper-Scissors, Ping Pong Balls

For the record, I'm pretty darn amazed at how speedily and accurately the embedded vision demo co-developed by Analog Devices and BDTI accomplishes its dice-counting task: much faster and more precise than me.

August 1, 2012
"Kinect" With NASA's Latest Mission: A Mars Rover Landing Simulation

On Sunday evening (just a half hour beyond 4 days away, as I type this, in fact), NASA's latest Mars rover, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL, aka "Curiosity"), will hopefully navigate to a successful landing on the Red Planet (PDF). The 11-minute video above, brought to you by the JPLnews YouTube channel, depicts key events in the rover's planned mission. As you can see, the landing (far from the rest of the rover's assignment) is no "walk in the park" (or if you prefer, rock garden).

July 31, 2012
Leap Motion: Garnering Software Developer Devotion

Back in late May, I introduced you to Leap Motion, the hardware developer of an upcoming gesture interface peripheral for computers (and perhaps, in the future, other devices). At the time, I mentioned:

July 30, 2012
Eye Scanning For Biometrics: Increasingly Unreliable Over Time, And An Image That Mimics

Eye-scanning technology is becoming increasingly pervasive as a biometric technique for individual identification, both in Hollywood ("Minority Report" and other films) and in real-life (an India case study that I wrote about last September, for example, or its use by

July 29, 2012
Augmented Reality: Another Future-Forecasting Video For You To See

Back in early April, I shared with you the futuristic concept video that accompanied the public unveiling of Google's Glass augmented reality system. I'll have more to say about Google Glass in the near future, as it received notable technology showcase at the recent Google I/O developer conference.

July 29, 2012
Affective Computing: A Free Tutorial's Ready For Your Auditioning

As you may have already learned via this site's upcoming events page, from last week's Embedded Vision Insights newsletter, or through the special events showcase on the DESIGN East site, the Embedded Vision Alliance will host the Embedded Vision Summit on September 19 in Boston, Massachusetts.

July 22, 2012
Samsung's Smart TVs: Here Come The Gesture Interface APIs

Remember those camera-inclusive televisions unveiled by Samsung at January's CES, which have caused no shortage of controversy, along with at least one humorous (albeit arguably sexist) commercial?

July 22, 2012
YouTube's Face Detection-Based Blurring: Digital Protection From Those Intent On Harming

As the daily news reports unfortunately make regularly clear, existing among us are no shortage of sick and twisted individuals who prey on children they find via (among other avenues) published images. And those same news reports document scores of situations in which captured still photos and video footage have been used by oppressive regimes around the world to identify and target dissidents found in the frames.

July 22, 2012
Texas Instruments' Multicore DSPs: Evaluation Modules Promise Embedded Vision Implementation Ease

Embedded Vision Alliance Platinum member Texas Instruments recently unveiled two new EVMs (evaluation modules) for the company's KeyStone-based TMS320C665x multicore digital signal processors (DSPs), the TMS320C6654, TMS320C6655 and TMS320C6657.