{"product_id":"embedded-computer-vision","title":"Embedded Computer Vision","description":"As a graduate student at Ohio State in the mid-1970s, I inherited a unique c- puter vision laboratory from the doctoral research of previous students. They had designed and built an early frame-grabber to deliver digitized color video from a (very large) electronic video camera on a tripod to a mini-computer (sic) with a (huge!) disk drive-about the size of four washing machines. They had also - signed a binary image array processor and programming language, complete with a user's guide, to facilitate designing software for this one-of-a-kindprocessor. The overall system enabled programmable real-time image processing at video rate for many operations. I had the whole lab to myself. I designed software that detected an object in the eldofview,trackeditsmovementsinrealtime,anddisplayedarunningdescription of the events in English. For example: \"An object has appeared in the upper right corner...Itismovingdownandtotheleft...Nowtheobjectisgettingcloser...The object moved out of sight to the left\"-about like that. The algorithms were simple, relying on a suf cient image intensity difference to separate the object from the background (a plain wall). From computer vision papers I had read, I knew that vision in general imaging conditions is much more sophisticated. But it worked, it was great fun, and I was hooked.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46187430183089,"sku":"9781849967761","price":160.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46187430215857,"sku":"9781848003033","price":160.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_38a15dce-7c35-46ca-8571-d5b6b66edbd5.jpg?v=1763439616","url":"https:\/\/iandigo.com\/products\/embedded-computer-vision","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}