September 22, 2015, SNIA Storage Developer Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Andy Rudoff from Intel and the SNIA NVM programming TWG spoke about the coming changes in non-volatile memory programming models. The emergence of a new class of non-volatile memory will blur the definitions of memory and storage and bring about many changes in computer architectures. The…
June 3, 2015, Society for Information Display Symposium, San Jose, CA –Kathrin Berkner from Ricoh Innovations talked about the advances in light-filed imaging and the basic principles for designing a light-field system. The challenges for an end-to-end system are in managing the data volumes and computational tasks. Among the techniques for capture, plenoptic cameras are…
June 2, 2015, Society for Information Display Symposium, San Jose, CA—Brian Krzanrich from Intel talked about the coming revolution in man-machine interfaces in the SID’s first keynote address. The era of immersive interactions will be as significant as any previous changes in electronic systems. The industry and society are on the cusp of a major…
March 5, 2015, Game Developer Conference, San Francisco—We talked with some of the people at Mixamo about their tools for automating the creation and rigging for animation. The on-line tool is focused on humanoid body creation and rigging. Under the hood, the software uses machine learning to expand its baseline database of motions. The system…
March 3, 2015, Game Developer Conference, San Francisco—Luiz Kruel from Certain Affinity talked about changing development pipelines to address the growing needs of al games. The games are getting more complex and visually realistic, which requires more detail in the images. The challenge is to have a pipeline that allows materials and models to be…
May 28, 2014, Augmented World Expo, Santa Clara, CA—A set of speakers discussed content creation for AR. Among the challenges are lack of standard platforms and encoding formats. Menno Ouweneel from Connectar described their offerings of content libraries and their business model. They charge a small fee for library access, and a fee for each…
April 6, 2014, NAB, Las Vegas—Various managers from Autodesk talked about their products and visions for the future. The company is in the process of changing their business practices in the midst of fairly large technological turmoil. Chris Bradshaw described the context for some trends in their business. Some of the animation tools like Maya…
February 25, 2014, RSA Conference, San Francisco—Dwayne Melancon from Tripwire presented the concept of games as the framework for security. Many of the user interfaces can use Diablo as the pattern for the UI. Game players depend upon various de facto standards for game interfaces. The games have methods and models that provide the elements…
February 5, 2014, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Charles Bouman from Purdue discussed integrated imaging that takes advantage of the optimizations possible with different imaging techniques that integrate algorithms, computation, and sensors. Unlike current systems that just extract data from the sensors, an integrated design system could have better performance at lower power. Today’s sensors are…
February 4, 2014, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Al Bovik from the University of Texas at Austin detailed the efforts in developing automated tools for assessing video quality in video networks. The volume of digital videos is doubling every year, and the computational and network capabilities for the image processing and delivery is struggling to keep…