嵌入式视觉联盟
Embedded Vision Alliance, EVA
官方网站http://www.embedded-vision.com

嵌入式视觉联盟(Embedded Vision Alliance,EVA)成立于2011年，由BDTI领导，代表着行业为在嵌入式系统中实现计算机视觉快速增长而展开的全面协作。EVA是一个会员制实体，始终致力于鼓励和授权嵌入式系统设计人员使用嵌入式视觉技术，并为系统设计工程师提供他们在设计方案中高效整合嵌入式视觉技术的必要工具。

EVA的未来计划包括调整技术标准、推出教育计划以及进行行业分析等，所有这些都针对公众免费，并通过会员及行业捐助维护。其他创始会员包括Analog Devices、Apical Imaging、Avnet、CEVA、CogniVue、Freescale、National Instruments、The MathWorks、Xilinx以及XMOS。

What is Embedded Vision?

“Embedded Vision” refers to machines that understand their environment through visual means. Embedded vision is the merging of two technologies: embedded systems and computer vision. An embedded system is any  microprocessor-based system that isn’t a general-purpose computer. Embedded systems are ubiquitous: they’re found in automobiles, kitchen appliances, consumer electronics devices, medical equipment, and countless other places.

Computer vision is the use of digital processing and intelligent algorithms to interpret meaning from images or video. Computer vision has mainly been a field of academic research over the past several decades.

Today, however, a major transformation is underway. Due to the emergence of very powerful, low-cost, and energy-efficient processors, it has become possible to incorporate vision capabilities into a wide range of embedded systems.

One successful example is the Microsoft Kinect video game controller that uses embedded vision to track the movements of Xbox 360 users, avoiding the need for hand-held controllers. Microsoft sold eight million Kinect units in the first two months after introduction. Over the next few years, there will be a rapid proliferation of embedded vision technology into many kinds of embedded systems.

THE E.V. Alliance

As system designers increasingly incorporate vision capabilities into embedded systems, it has become clear that there is a lack of readily available, practical information to guide them. While computer vision research has generated numerous textbooks and research papers, there is very little information available to guide system designers in designing practical embedded vision solutions, including the selection of chips, cameras, algorithms, tools, and programming languages.

The primary goal of the Embedded Vision Alliance is to inspire and empower embedded system designers to use embedded vision technology. A key means of achieving this goal is providing system design engineers with the practical know-how they need in order to effectively incorporate embedded vision technology into their designs.

查询进一步信息，请访问http://www.embedded-vision.com。