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Enhanced BackUp Cameras Save Lives |
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Gesture Recognition for the Masses |
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Camera Calibration Anyone? |
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ACF – APEX´s Secret Sauce |
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Jungo´s USB Solution Stacks Up for CogniVue |
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Enhanced BackUp Cameras Save Lives
According to the US National Highway Transportation Safety
Authority (NHTSA), 300 deaths and 18,000 injuries occur each year because of back-over accidents. These devastating statistics have prompted the US Department of Transportation to mandate Rear-View Cameras on all new vehicles starting 2014.
CogniVue has teamed up with Smart ParkTM collision avoidance and vehicle integration product manufacturer, Zorg Industries, to deliver the ‘cognitive processing smarts´ for a range of Smart Park products including a single camera module capable of obstacle detection and zone distance estimation using CogniVue´s SmartEBC application software. The image processing and analysis executing on the CogniVue´s CV2201 Image Cogntion Processor (ICP) executes all the image processing and analysis including distortion and perspective correction, obstacle detection, distance estimation and graphic overlay prior to rendering video frames back to the display. Field trials are due to begin this fall.
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Gesture Recognition for the Masses
Imagine changing the TV channel with a wave of your hand, or navigating the web
using hand gestures? Better yet, picture this - you´re sitting at a restaurant and placing
an order of your favorite ale by making a selection with your finger off the sliding menu projected onto your tabletop. While some gesture recognition smart camera applications exist today, this is still considered emerging technology. What will drive widespread adoption in the not-so-distant future is the emergence of high performance, low-cost, low power, small size processors (like the CV220X family) that are architected expressly to perform image pattern detection and recognition operations efficiently while consuming very little power. Smart cameras capable of gesture recognition are bridging the gap between machines and humans and soon we´ll be seeing them, seeing us, in our everyday lives.
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Camera Calibration Anyone?
To all those developers spending countless hours generating look-up-tables (LUT) for their sensor and lens combinations for the purposes of dewarping and perspective corrections required for their systems - we´ve got news for you! CogniVue has just released its Camera Calibration PC Tool. The tool generates LUTs based on any sensor/lens arrangement and may be used with any processor family, including CogniVue ICPs (of course). The tool offers excellent visualization for creating multiple views including top-down, and split views using different regions of interest. |
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ACF - APEX´s Secret Sauce
Some may read the words ’programmable massively parallel processor core´ which essentially describes CogniVue´s APEX technology in a nutshell, and fear you´ll be plagued with programming complexities that previous multi-core SIMD architectures have been subject to. Listen up - with the APEX Core Framework (ACF) you have nothing to fear. With APEX comes an easy to program SDK (ICP SDK) that incorporates the APEX Core Framework - key in simplifying programming of advanced computer vision algorithms on CogniVue processors. ACF has a comprehensive API that automatically maximizes APEX utilization, so you don´t have to, and optimizes overall application performance. Developers are spared the complexities of configuring the hardware, as no-low level programming is required - no DMA transfers, no mitigating memory latency, no tuning of multi-level caches (as is required with DSPs). A comprehensive easy to use platform along with libraries of pre-optimized kernels simplifies computer vision application development. Developers sequence kernels without having to fetch data from external memory and less external memory accesses means lower power, lower latency of multi-filter computer vision algorithms. Herein lies the major advantage of CogniVue ICPs over DSPs and GPGPUs. |
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Jungo´s USB Solution Stacks Up for CogniVue
CogniVue has selected Jungo for integration of its embedded USB software protocol stack allowing customers to easily incorporate standard USB connectivity in their designs whatever the application. Look out for a press release this quarter officially announcing this partnership. |
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