Intel researchers recently demonstrated, at Research@Intel Day 2010, a future where you could simply place an item of food on your kitchen countertop, and with a few finger strokes, locate recipes that incorporate that item. You could even put multiple food items on the counter and search for recipes that include all those ingredients. “Object-Aware Situated Interactive System” (“OASIS”) combines real-time computer vision algorithms, 3D cameras, and micro-projection for fast recognition and tracking of everyday physical objects and gestures. The Intel demonstration uses displays projected on everyday household surfaces to create interactive islands for in-home applications. It can be easily retrofitted to any home, any room and almost any horizontal or vertical surface. The project has interesting implications for future capabilities around the home.
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Innovation@Intel: Smart Computing Islands on Everyday Surfaces
August 12th, 2010 |
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Innovation@Intel: Smart Computing Islands on Everyday Surfaces
August 12th, 2010 |
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Intel researchers recently demonstrated, at Research@Intel Day 2010, a future where you could simply place an item of food on your kitchen countertop, and with a few finger strokes, locate recipes that incorporate that item. You could even put multiple food items on the counter and search for recipes that include all those ingredients. “Object-Aware Situated Interactive System” (“OASIS”) combines real-time computer vision algorithms, 3D cameras, and micro-projection for fast recognition and tracking of everyday physical objects and gestures. The Intel demonstration uses displays projected on everyday household surfaces to create interactive islands for in-home applications. It can be easily retrofitted to any home, any room and almost any horizontal or vertical surface. The project has interesting implications for future capabilities around the home.
Innovation@Intel: Smart Computing Islands on Everyday Surfaces
August 12th, 2010 |
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Intel researchers recently demonstrated, at Research@Intel Day 2010, a future where you could simply place an item of food on your kitchen countertop, and with a few finger strokes, locate recipes that incorporate that item. You could even put multiple food items on the counter and search for recipes that include all those ingredients. “Object-Aware Situated Interactive System” (“OASIS”) combines real-time computer vision algorithms, 3D cameras, and micro-projection for fast recognition and tracking of everyday physical objects and gestures. The Intel demonstration uses displays projected on everyday household surfaces to create interactive islands for in-home applications. It can be easily retrofitted to any home, any room and almost any horizontal or vertical surface. The project has interesting implications for future capabilities around the home.
Innovation@Intel: Mobile Augmented Reality for Do-it-Yourself Tech Support
August 5th, 2010 |
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Intel researchers recently demonstrated, at Research@Intel Day 2010, a future where computer vision and Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) along with a device with the latest Intel® Atom™ processor could be used to help guide a consumer to do his own home PC repair project. The device was able to identify the model of the PC and provide text and graphical instructions to the user for each step of the repair.
Innovation@Intel: Mobile Augmented Reality for Do-it-Yourself Tech Support
August 5th, 2010 |
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Intel researchers recently demonstrated, at Research@Intel Day 2010, a future where computer vision and Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) along with a device with the latest Intel® Atom™ processor could be used to help guide a consumer to do his own home PC repair project. The device was able to identify the model of the PC and provide text and graphical instructions to the user for each step of the repair.
Innovation@Intel: Mobile Augmented Reality
July 30th, 2010 |
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Intel researchers recently demonstrated, at Research@Intel Day 2010, a Mobile Augmented Reality World Browser application on the latest Intel® Atom™ processor –based platform. The World Browser enriches the way users understand their world on an Intel Atom processor powered Smart Phone. Users can instantly access the huge reservoir of information on the web, by simple click of the camera shutter. The system identifies landmarks on the fly, using compute-intensive visual search in concert with power-efficient sensors, taking advantage of unique IA platform features.
Innovation@Intel: Online Updates in Data Warehouses via SSDs
July 22nd, 2010 |
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Today’s data warehouses operate on stale (day-old) snapshots of data, in order to achieve efficient data access. The rise of e-commerce and the need for 24×7 operations for global markets make online updates increasingly desirable. At Research@Intel Day 2010 last month, researchers from Intel Labs Pittsburgh demonstrated research exploiting Solid State Drives (SSDs) to enable fast data access on up-to-the-minute data. Researchers demonstrated a prototype data warehouse that caches recent updates in a SSD, and combines cached updates on-the-fly in query answers while preserving the queries’ good sequential disk access patterns.
Innovation@Intel: Intel Powers Offshore Wind Turbines
July 15th, 2010 |
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Now, more than ever, there is a growing need for reliable, alternative offshore energy sources and with Intel processors powering Mainstream Renewable Power’s offshore wind turbines throughout the UK, offshore wind has become a viable contender. Intel embedded technology enables increased control of turbines while reducing costs and providing real-time data processing, easy programmability and advanced pitch designs, which allow utilities to maintain a reliable stream of renewable energy to support future energy innovations.
Innovation@Intel: Making Improvements to Cache Memory Process
June 16th, 2010 |
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Today’s CPUs typically contain large amounts of on-chip cache memory, which speed up access to code and data, thereby improving overall performance and reducing power. Intel engineers are looking for ways to make these memories more dense, to either increase their capacity (for improved performance) or reduce their size (for lower manufacturing cost). Floating body cell (FBC) (PDF 371KB) is one candidate to one day replace the 6-transistor SRAM cells in use today. In two presentations at the 2010 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits this week, Intel is presenting progress in developing this FBC. One paper describes the development of a 22nm FBC memory on a bulk wafer of the kind in use in high volume manufacturing today — earlier results were on much more expensive SOI (silicon on insulator) wafers. Another paper describes a procedure for selectively doping (introducing impurities) into an FBC’s back gate, without contaminating other parts of the device . quite a challenge, given its size. Further details are available here (PDF 40KB).
Innovation@Intel: Increasing the Versatility of Chip Manufacturing Process
June 15th, 2010 |
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Intel is the only company in the world shipping products built on a 32nm (32 billionths of a meter) manufacturing process, and the only one with high-k/metal gate (PDF 13KB), a technology that delivers superior performance and energy efficiency. Now, Intel engineers have developed a new version of this process — first created for CPUs – to make SoCs, particularly those requiring low power and RF (radio frequency)/mobile communications. A full array of features has been added, including a triple-transistor architecture with high frequency performance, low leakage power and good noise performance, and high breakdown power amplifier transistors. The latter is needed for CMOS power amplifiers in integrated radio applications such as Wi-Fi, WiMAX, cellular, and GPS. The process provides noise isolation through deep-n-well and high resistivity substrates, and includes high quality inductors, resistors, and varactors. Intel is describing this new technology at the 2010 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits this week. Further details are available here (PDF 28KB).
Innovation@Intel: Disaster Communications
March 18th, 2010 |
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As witnessed in the recent major earthquakes and other disasters around the globe, people need a rapid way to communicate to obtain emergency assistance and to locate their family members, water, food, and shelter. The current primary infrastructures (cellular networks, Internet) do not satisfy these needs well during disasters. Intel Labs Berkeley researchers are working on a project that would enable citizens to continue using familiar Internet applications on their personal devices (e.g., smart phones, laptops) even when network infrastructure is degraded or barely functioning. They have designed a new protocol with the ability to automatically discover neighbors as well as architecture to support media-rich situation awareness applications. See video and read more on this project and other Intel Labs Berkeley Research projects.
Innovation@Intel: Power-Aware Perception
March 11th, 2010 |
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Within the next few years, your smartphone will be able to catalog your belongings, your physical activities, your favorite places and favorite things at these places – even how to get those things. It could even teach you how to fix your car or how to clean your espresso machine. The perception algorithms that make this future possible already exist as prototypes in research labs, but they aren’t accurate enough and are so power-hungry they will rapidly drain your battery. At their annual open house today, Intel Labs Berkeley researchers demonstrated a new project that explores the design of extreme power management technology to enable mobile devices to support always-on mobile perception applications., i.e., image, facial, object, and gesture recognition. The research scope includes techniques and tools for power-usage analysis, automated benchmarking, application tuning, and an application developer toolkit. See more on this and other Intel Labs Berkeley Research projects.
Innovation@Intel: Intel-powered Classmate PC & the Magellan Generation
March 3rd, 2010 |
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Interviews in Portugal with key stakeholders on the deployment of 450,000 “Magellan PCs” for students revealed that the project is so influential the students are now being referred to as the “Magellan Generation” – an entire generation experiencing education in a new light with greater access to information beyond the walls of their classroom. Children are pursuing their interest and using technology as a tool to explore, create, and share their ideas with their friends and families. They have a more positive attitude toward learning and a more widespread belief that they have a bright future ahead. This is the first nationwide deployment with universal coverage of all 1st-4th grade students using a PC based on the Intel-powered classmate PC reference design. For more information on how innovative education solutions from Intel are impacting Portugal, see “The Magellan Generation” blog. For more on Intel in education see the “Generation of Innovators” page and for more on impact, see the “Positive Impact of eLearning” white paper (PDF 449KB).
Innovation@Intel: Communication-Assisted Platform Power Management
February 23rd, 2010 |
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Intel’s energy efficiency research is showing how we’re reducing overall platform power demands while maintaining high performance. Intel research is taking a holistic approach to power management from the network to the platform for extended battery life. This communications-based technology creates idle durations by aligning Tx, Rx and I/O break events allowing the CPU and platform to get into a low power state faster and stay there longer. This synergistic approach to power management is resulting in up to 30% CPU power savings for various workloads. See video for more.
Innovation@Intel: Small Objects, Big Worlds
February 17th, 2010 |
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Intel Labs China is showcasing how photography can be used to allow amateurs to create rich visual content including 3D objects ¯mirror worlds, environments that model buildings and other large structures in the real world. One prototype can help users to create a 3D model from real-life images without prior known camera parameters and without any calibration reference. The other can help users to create and navigate a mirror world by using the ever-increasing volume of user-generated and geo-tagged multimedia data.
Innovation@Intel: Seamless Classroom Transitions Enabled by Intels
February 9th, 2010 |
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Sustained technology use in classrooms is hampered by difficult moments of transitions, which take time and distract from the core activity of learning. These transitions happen between lessons, individuals, study groups, and classroom-wide activities. Intel’s efforts in device composition through our Carry Small, Live Large research initiative enables mobile devices such as the Intel-powered classmate PC to dynamically share their clipboard and storage for collaborative learning, and then seamlessly transition to front-of-the-class presentations using wireless display technology. See video for more information.
Innovation@Intel: Collaborative Visual Analytics in Virtual Worlds
February 2nd, 2010 |
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Virtual worlds are powerful tools for connecting groups of people. Intel and Qwaq, Inc. are working together on enterprise collaboration combining Intel’s Miramar 3D desktop and Qwaq Forums into a new virtual collaboration environment, enabling groups of people to connect with groups of documents. Recently, Intel and Qwaq brought 3D visualizations into the mix, enabling visual analytics usage models within a collaborative work environment. This connects groups of people with large amounts of complex information for collaborative sense-making and understanding. See Video for more.
Innovation@Intel: Enhancing Computer Vision with Parallel Programming Tool
January 26th, 2010 |
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Creating applications that take advantage of multi-core hardware requires new approaches in parallel programming. Innovative tools from Intel such as Intel® Concurrent Collections and Intel’s Ct Technology can aid the development of these applications, such as computer vision. Concurrent Collections for C++ is a new language, now available, that helps create robust parallel applications, and Ct was born as an Intel research effort to extend C/C++ for data-parallel programming. See video for more.
Innovation@Intel: Computer Vision Accelerator
January 19th, 2010 |
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As video cameras are integrated into more devices from laptops to phones, computer vision capabilities have become increasingly attractive to enable applications such as gesture-based user interfaces and augmented reality. Intel has demonstrated a functional, reconfigurable hardware accelerator to enable advanced vision capabilities on mobile devices. This research from Intel Labs, St. Petersburg explores the automated design of reconfigurable accelerators based on tools-aided application analysis targeting computationally-intensive media workloads such as the SURF object recognition algorithm. See video for more information.
Innovation@Intel: Everyday Sensing and Perception
January 12th, 2010 |
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The ability to perceive user context, such as their location, activity and social interaction, is an essential ingredient for future mobile devices. Such devices could remind you to take your medication before a meal, step you through jump-starting your car or help you put a name that you’ve forgotten to a face. However, understanding detailed context accurately over most of a user’s day is beyond the capability of today’s devices. “Everyday Sensing and Perception,” developed by Intel Labs researchers and demonstrated at Research@Intel Day, integrates a novel wearable sensor-augmented video camera with state-of the art perception algorithms into one of the first systems that can parse much of daily life at a useful level. See “Everyday Sensing & Perception” video.