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Technology News Highlights 2004 p1 of 3:

• 'Dream Team' assembles with goal of capturing, displaying Gigapixel-sized images
  DECEMBER 10--An eclectic group of artists and scientists that organizers have dubbed the "dream team" of imaging and visualization gathered at New York University to begin to create a photographic system capable of capturing and displaying a Gigapixel--1 billion pixels--of visual information in a single image.
• Sensor compares images solely on the basis of color
  DECEMBER 6--Siemens (www.siemens.com) researchers have developed a fast and robust image-recognition sensor that obtains information solely from the color composition of an image.
• Xilinx and Pixel Velocity team to deliver advanced 3-D facial-recognition technology
  NOVEMBER 30--Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, CA; www.xilinx.com) and Pixel Velocity (www.pixel-velocity.com) have announced a collaboration that resulted in advanced 3-D facial-recognition technology.
• 1394 makes strong showing at VISION 2004 in Stuttgart and at Convergence 2004 in Detroit
  NOVEMBER 22--The IEEE 1394 (FireWire) interface made a strong showing in October with a significant new audio-video automotive demonstration at the Convergence 2004 Show in Detroit and as the interface of choice for a broad range of industrial automation products at the VISION 2004 Show in Stuttgart.
• Xerox scientists develop system for categorizing 'generic' electronic images
  NOVEMBER 17--Scientists at the Xerox Corporation Research Centre in Europe have developed a powerful new system for "recognizing" generic, everyday objects in digital images, such as a photograph of a car, and categorizing them.
• EMVA releases Standard 1288 on camera and sensor specifications
  NOVEMBER 1--The European Machine Vision Association has released the preliminary version of its standard 1288: "Standard for Measurement and Presentation of Specifications for Machine Vision Sensors and Cameras."
• Design contest highlights practical benefits of PC/104 technology
  OCTOBER 25--Engineers who are designing innovative products based on PC/104, PC/104-Plus, PCI-104, and EBX technology will be recognized by the PC/104 Embedded Consortium (www.pc104.org) in its third annual PC/104 Embedded Design Contest.
• Israeli-developed 3-D imaging revolutionizes x-ray rooms
  OCTOBER 4--The Wide Beam Reconstruction technology of UltraSPECT (Haifa, Israel) creates a stack of images that are transferred to a workstation where physicians can review a 3-D model.
• VITA brings together industry experts to further VXS and PMC standards
  OCTOBER 4--VITA, the VMEbus International Trade Association (Scottsdale, AZ; www.vita.com), at its September standards meeting voted to move two working group draft standards into the ANSI (American National Standards Institute) process.
• Kodak teams with IBM to develop new image sensors
  SEPTEMBER 20--Eastman Kodak Company (Rochester, NY) and IBM will collaborate on the development and manufacture of image sensors to power mass-market consumer products, such as digital still cameras and camera phones.

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