Image Pre-processing for Human and Computer Vision

Computer Vision and Deep Learning Meet up's next event will be hosted on February 7 at 6 PM. Judd Heape from ARM and Dave Tokic from Algolux will be presenting about image pre-processing and tuning.

The event will take place at Xilinx headquarters in building 4. Pizza and drinks will be provided. Tentative agenda is:

6 - 7 PM: Networking

7 - 715 PM: Welcome remarks (Anand Joshi, Tractica, Aaron Behman, Xilinx)

715 - 800 PM: Image pre-processing for human and computer vision (Judd Heape, ARM)

• What is an Image Signal Processor?

• What is image quality?

• Considerations for human and computer vision image quality

• Image processing approaches

• Hardware/software options

• Challenges

• Considerations for quality, performance, power, and functional safety

800 - 815 PM: Tuning challenges and smart optimization for vision systems (Dave Tokic, Algolux)

• Image tuning challenges

• Tuning and optimization approaches for image and vision quality

815 - 830 PM: Q&A and concluding remarks

Speaker Bios:

Judd Heape is Sr. Director, Marketing in the IVG (Imaging & Vision Group) at ARM. Before being acquired by ARM in 2016, Judd served for 2½ years at Apical Inc. as VP of Product Applications and two years at Apical Limited, in Loughborough UK, as VP of Engineering. Prior to Apical, Judd served three years at Altera Corporation and was responsible for developing the “ASSP business model” for video surveillance solutions and also conceived and specified the MAX 10 family of low-cost FPGAs. Before joining Altera, Judd spent eight years at QuickLogic Corporation in roles ranging from FAE for the South-central U.S. region to senior director of systems engineering. Prior to QuickLogic, Judd spent nine years at Texas Instruments engaging in FPGA design for DLP products and DSP-based printing engines, including two years in Tsukuba, Japan engaging in multimedia research projects for the ‘C6x DSP. Judd has five issued U.S. patents and holds a BE in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Dave Tokic is vice president of marketing and strategic partnerships at Algolux (http://www.algolux.com/) Inc. Dave has over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor and electronic design automation industries. He most recently served as senior director of worldwide strategic partnerships and alliances for Xilinx, driving solution and services partnerships across all markets. Previously, he held executive marketing and partnership positions at Cadence Design Systems, Verisity Design, and Synopsys and has also served as a marketing and business consultant for the Embedded Vision Alliance. Dave has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University.