Himax Reports Q2 2012 ResultsHimax released Q2 2012 earnings report. The company's CEO Jordan Wu says in the earnings call transcript:"...CMOS image sensors and wafer level optics were among the non-driver products which delivered outstanding sequential …Read More
Regular Image Sensor Used for Radiation DetectionVienna Technical University, Austria presented a way to measure Alpha, Beta, Gamma particles with a regular webcam. The webcam sensor is shielded from visible light by a 5um-thick aluminium foil and a software is used to anal…Read More
Global vs Rolling Shutter at Relativistic SpeedsGlobal shutter is considered to be distortion-free and it's true... unless we approach the speed of light. As phys.org article points, a shot of a moving and rotating wheel may exhibit rolling shutter-like distortions, if it …Read More
Facial Recognition to Become a Standard FeatureABI Research says that by the end of 2012 almost 20% of annual smartphone shipments will include facial recognition capabilities. ABI projects a steady adoption of the technology in mobile devices and numerous mobile device …Read More
Halide Simplifies Parallel Image ProcessingEETimes, MIT News: Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) created a new programming language called Halide and optimized for image processing on parallel cores. The Halide program…Read More