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Inaugural I3A VISION 2020 Award Winners Unveiled
I3A (Wakefield, Mass.) announces the initial winners of its new awards program, the VISION 2020 Imaging Innovation Awards, to attendees at I3A's interactive, technology-focused 63rd Annual Conference, which took place November 9-10 in Monterey, California. The winners demonstrated their innovative applications in a special session on Tuesday.
I3A (the International Imaging Industry Association; http://www.i3a.org) is the leading global association for the imaging industry. The VISION 2020 Imaging Innovation Awards is a new initiative to energize, recognize and celebrate innovators whose ideas will drive the industry toward a vision of the future of intelligent imaging. Details about the VISION 2020 Initiative and Awards can be found at http://www.i3a.org/about-i3a/awards/vision2020/.
These unique innovations give us glimpses into a future where computer vision is increasingly used in creative ways, not only to replicate human vision, but to extend it to new planes ...
The VISION 2020 panel of judges selected three companies' innovative technologies from a pool of submissions:
- Gold: CogniSign Inc. (http://www.cognisign.com/) of San Francisco, for its image search technology platform that seeks to solve the "images are a black box" problem found in a wide variety of consumer Internet and mobile applications. CogniSign's technology extracts visual meaning from the arrangement of the pixels themselves, by using computer vision, to both find similar content and to decipher the subject matter of the image.
- Silver: Tessera (http://www.tessera.com/) of San Jose, California, for its latest Imaging & Optics demonstrator: a wireless "smart" camera module in a toy. The demonstrator includes a VGA wafer-level camera that integrates the company's wafer-level optics and image sensor packaging, face and smile detection technologies. Combined, these technologies enable the toy to detect multiple faces and provide appropriate responses, from making happy sounds when a new face appears, to laughing when a face smiles.
- Bronze: imsense ltd. (http://www.im-sense.com/) of Cambridge, UK, for its eye-fidelity Dynamic Range Correction technology, particularly as applied to video content processing. It automatically optimizes a video's brightness and contrast, revealing all details, while perfectly respecting the color balance, with the result that people "see what they saw" when they captured their videos.
VISION 2020 Awards Criteria
