There is an impressive number of smart camera applications, in fact, as many as there are potential image processing uses. Smart video monitoring cameras are proliferating in various emerging markets including:
- Gesture recognition for appliance control
- Audience measurement for advertising (people counting, measuring audience engagement, length of engagement and demographics)
- Natural Feature Tracking (NFT) for augmented reality on mobile devices
- Military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)
- Biometrics (fingerprint, face, iris verification) for identity access management and access control
CogniVue programmable processors handle all object detection, recognition and classification in addition to image and video encoding and decoding. Equipped with the APEX™ core technology, CogniVue processor products are capable of capturing high quality video and images, analyzing, interpreting the data, and rendering to a display or storing the data depending on system requirements. CogniVue products offer high-programmability and come with a powerful software development environment to ensure easy development and integration with customer systems.
Features supported by CogniVue Image Cognition Processors include:
- Multi-standard image and video codecs
- Processors support mega pixel image sensors
- Face/people detection
- Face recognition
- Object detection
- Image overlay with alphablending
- Natural feature tracking
- Simultaneous rendering to multiple displays simultaneously
- Noise filtering, edge enhancement, colour correction, advanced interpolation and colour enhancement for ensuring exceptional image quality when required