Founder, Embedded Vision Alliance

Jeff Bier is the founder of the Embedded Vision Alliance, a partnership of 90+ technology companies that works to enable the widespread use of practical computer vision. The Alliance’s annual conference, the Embedded Vision Summit (May 20-23, 2019 in Santa Clara, California) is the preeminent event where engineers, product designers, and business people gather to make vision-based products a reality.

When not running the Alliance, Jeff is the president of BDTI, an engineering services firm: for over 25 years BDTI has helped hundreds of companies select the right technologies and develop optimized, custom algorithms and software for demanding applications in audio, video, machine learning and computer vision. If you are choosing between processor options for your next design, need a custom algorithm to solve a unique visual perception problem, or need to fit demanding algorithms into a small cost/size/power envelope, BDTI can help.

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Jeff Bier Web 2019

New algorithms and tools accelerate embedded vision adoption

Since we started the Embedded Vision Alliance in 2011, there has been an unprecedented growth in investment, innovation, and use of practical vision technology across a broad ...
May 1, 2019
Jeff Bier Web 2019

Processors and sensors drive embedded vision growth

The technical landscape for processors and sensors for embedded computer vision applications has changed tremendously over the past five years and will continue to change dramatically...
April 16, 2019
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Privacy in the era of ubiquitous cameras and artificial intelligence

Lately I’ve been thinking about the relationship between embedded vision and privacy. Surveillance cameras are nothing new, of course. For decades, they’ve been ubiquitous in ...
April 1, 2019

Embedded vision enables truly smart cities

On a recent vacation, I was struck by how indispensable smartphones have become for travelers. GPS-powered maps enable us to navigate unfamiliar cities. Language translation apps...
March 15, 2019
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Is deep learning the solution to all computer vision problems?

There’s no question that deep neural networks (DNNs) have transformed the field of computer vision. DNNs are delivering superior results on recognizing objects, localizing objects...
March 1, 2019
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Computer vision: at the edge or in the cloud? It depends

Embedded Vision Alliance blog: About eight years ago, my colleagues and I realized that it would soon become practical to incorporate computer vision into cost- and power-constrained...
Feb. 15, 2019