José Alvarez, Engineering Director for Video Technology at Xilinx, presents the "Challenges and Opportunities in Accelerating OpenCV" tutorial within the "Developing Vision Software, Accelerators and Systems" technical session at the April 2013 Embedded Vision Summit. Computer vision continues to see increased adoption across a wide variety of applications. The industry's trend towards the incorporation of Smarter Vision capabilities is driving the need for ever more intelligent algorithms that are capable of image understanding.

Eric Gregori, senior software engineer and embedded vision specialist at BDTI, presents the "Finding Objects Using Canny Edge Detection" tutorial within the "Using Vision Algorithms" technical session at the April 2013 Embedded Vision Summit. This presentation dives into the Canny edge detection algorithm; how it works and how to use it. Topics include a Canny algorithm walk through, connecting edges with contours, and classifying contours with mathematical models. Finally, the topics learned are applied to describe a system for counting dots on dice.

By Eric Gregori
BDTI

OpenCL is an emerging SDK (software development kit) that targets the problem of developing on heterogeneous multi-core platforms. Previously confined purely to the world of GPGPU (general-purpose computing on graphics processor units), it has recently also achieved acceptance on other hardware platforms, including fixed-function accelerators and even FPGAs.