Computer Vision to be discussed at SXSW festival panel
South by Southwest (SXSW), originally a music festival, has grown into a collection of festivals and conferences covering music, film, and emergent interactive technologies. This year, there will be a panel titled What If Your Phone Had Five Senses? featuring Ted Power and Nicholas Jitkoff of Google, Matt Biddulph of Doppir, and Ben Averch of Microvision. Among other areas, this panel will touch on augmented reality, speech recognition, and computer vision. The panel discussion will take place March 14th in Austin, Texas, USA.
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Extended Deadline: 2010 Embedded Computer Vision Workshop
The 2010 Embedded Computer Vision Workshop deadline for submissions has been extended to March 19, 2010.
See the ECVW call for papers for complete information on the workshop, including on-line submission instructions.
Disclosure: ECVW 2010 is hosted on this website.
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Imprivata uses computer vision to lock workstation when user steps away
Imprivata, a company that provides secure login and authentication systems, has announced a new product that locks a workstation when a user walks away and automatically re-authenticates the user when he or she returns. The product, called OneSign Secure Walk-Away, uses computer vision to identify users and determine their presence.
An article in E-Health Insider explains that this technology is especially valuable in medical care facilities, not only to protect patient privacy, but to prevent one staff member from entering information into the wrong patient's record at shared terminals.
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Social games to improve 3D renderings
University of Washington (UW) and Cornell University researchers are developing PhotoCity, a system to create 3D renderings of buildings and cities from unstructured collections of 2D digital photos. To improve the quality of the 3D renderings, the researchers plan to use a social game for users to add images where needed. More information is available in a New York Times article.
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Mobile augmented reality enhances museum tour
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD have developed an augmented-reality system for use as a virtual museum guide. Visitors can hold their touch screen consoles in front of an art piece and the relevant customized information would appear on the screens. Software has been written to recognize images captured by a camera on the console. According to the press release, the researchers say that the success of their application clearly indicates "a trend towards mobile, virtual guidebooks", and that mobile phones could "accelerate acceptance of augmented reality".
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Remote controlled robot helps create 3D maps in dangerous locales
Researchers at the Missouri University of Science & Technology and the University of Missouri-Columbia have built a remote-controlled robot to help create 3D maps of the environment. The robot is equipped with an infrared camera and LIDAR to detect structural details in the insides of buildings and cave passages, for use in disaster relief and other applications. More information is available in the press release.
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Xilinx introduces Spartan-6 development kit for embedded vision
Xilinx Inc revealed their Industrial Imaging Targeted Design Platform for applications such as high-resolution digital video conferencing, video surveillance, and machine vision systems. The platform has a Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA, and includes several reference designs. More information is available in a press release.
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Effort started on federal guidelines for digitizing audio and video content
Carl Fleischhauer of the U.S. Library of Congress is leading an effort to develop federal guidelines to digitize audio and video related materials. The goal is to create a common specification for use by different federal agencies. One of the main issues is related to metadata since "not everybody agrees about where to draw the line on how much metadata to embed". The metadata can also be used can help restore context that is lost during digitizing. More information is available from a Federal Computer Week article.
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Computer Vision system predicts stem cell successors
Badri Roysam and Andrew Cohen at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) have developed a computer vision system that can predict with 99% accuracy whether stem cells will divide into self-renewing cells or terminal cells. The predictions, which are based on measuring cell movements, are made in real-time, so that the fate of the cells is known before they divide. The system can also predict characteristics of the specialized cells that result. By helping researchers understand the factors that affect specialization of stem cells, the system has the potential to help researchers create larger numbers of specialized cells from stem cells.
More information is available from the RPI press release.
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Camera-based bill reader helps blind people identify currency denominations
Franklin Electronic Publishers is marketing a camera-based paper money reader for the visually impaired. In the United States, all bills are the same size regardless of denomination, making it difficult for the blind to securely engage in cash transactions. The handheld Franklin device uses technology from Evolution Robotics to recognize individual bills; the amount is spoken out loud by the device.
More information is available from nytimes.com.
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