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Valde Systems is pleased to support the Princeton Urban Challenge Team. Princeton Autonomous Vehicle Engineering is a student-led research group at Princeton University. The group consists primarily of undergraduates but is assisted by a diverse group of graduate students and talented faculty advisors. The PAVE team will be using Valde Systems processors in their entry vehicle for path planning and navigation purposes.
The Urban Challenge is a contest sponsored by the DARPA agency to build an autonomous vehicle that can operate in urban environments. The Urban Challenge is the successor to the highly successful Grand Challenge. Visit http://www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge/index.asp for more information.
Valde Systems adds support for Linux code to its processors. Many customers have image processing routines developed to run in a Linux environment. Valde Systems uses VirtualLogix VLX that bridges the high level Linux applications with the real-time DSP BIOS functions.
The Linux Kernel also adds a TCP/IP stack and a flash file system along with support for the RS-232 console port. The Linux Kernel and VLX are included free of charge in the board support package (BSP) shipped with our processors. For volume production, a small licensing fee is required per unit.
We're exhibiting our products, including the VS1501 and VS1502 image processors along with the VS1701 stereo vision smart camera. We will also have our VS1100 sealed stereo pan and tilt unit and the VS1000 autonomous robotic development platform. Valde systems will be available to answer all your questions about our products.
Valde Systems to introduce new Stereo smart Camera at The Vision Show East. Come see us at Booth # 427 in The Vision Show East, 2006 - May 9-11, 2006, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
The Vision Show East
We're introducing our new VS1701 Stereo Smart Camera that combines the same proven architecture as our popular VS1501 unit in the same enclosure with two 640x480 cameras. Any software developed for the VS1501 will port to the VS1701 with little or no changes. By mounting the cameras rigidly in the enclosure camera mounting and calibration is greatly simplified. Optional ring light mounting brackets are also available.
Valde Systems will be on hand throughout the show to explain the VS1701 and to offer suggestions as to how you can incorporate this smart camera in applications where you need a complete compact stereo processing system
We're introducing our new weatherproof stereo vision head for autonomous robotics applications. Autonomous robots that must operate outside can use Valde Systems IP66 sealed enclosure that contains the same processor as our popular VS1501 and VS1502 products, so software can be used directly. The stereo vision head also has high speed pan and tilt motors interfaced directly to the processor for direct control by image tracking algorithms.
Valde systems will exhibit this stereo vision head and be available to answer all your questions about it.
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Valde Systems, Inc. joins the AIA
Valde Systems Inc has joined the Automated Imaging Association, recognized as the leading resource for bringing together companies and customers for the implementation of machine vision systems.
Visit http://www.machinevisiononline.org
We're introducing our new VS1000 development
platform for autonomous robotics applications. Researchers working
in robotics can use this platform to test navigation algorithms,
and with an optional 802.11b wireless ethernet interface, communication
between other robots, or other networks in simple.
Valde systems will exhibit this platform and be able to answer
all your questions about it. Click here for more information on
the VS1000
Visit www.roboevent.com
Three-dimensional image processing systems have now reached the
mainstream having been embedded in a wide range of applications
including security and surveillance, industrial robotics, and autonomous
vehicles. These systems are implemented using a diverse array of
techniques: some generate 3D information from a single camera, some
use structured light to calculate topographical information; still
others use lasers in reflected angle, or time of flight calculations.
This article focuses on the theory and implementation of the most
widely used technique: stereo image processing of two cameras, an
approach that mimics the way the human eye gathers depth information.
This technique has the advantage of no special requirements for
lighting or expensive lasers. Also, with the availability of standard
interfaces such as IEEE-1394 (Firewire) and USB 2.0, the entire
system can put together simply by plugging these cameras into a
commercially available desktop PC. The simplicity of the hardware
platform comes at a price: drastically higher digital signal processing
(DSP) performance is needed to execute complex algorithms. This
article describes the benefits of these of using a combination of
discrete DSP processors and Stratix II FPGA co-processors in a 3D
stereo image processing system implementation.
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entire article
Valde Systems is pleased to name Art Buckland to its board of directors.
Art is a seasoned CEO with 8 successful start-ups and senior management
experience in Schlumberger, Teradyne, TI and Lex. Has completed
34 M&A transactions and in 2001-2002 raised $19.5 million for
a start-up he founded. Art Speaks five languages, has an MBA from
Harvard, BSEE from Syracuse, and is a Director for Helix Corp.(NASDAQ:
HELX). He works with Emerson Hospital, and is a member of the IEEE.
BROOKLINE, N.H., July 14 /PRNewswire/
-- Continuing to reduce waste and
control costs in the manufacturing process while simultaneously
improving
their overall product quality, Valde Systems, Inc., a startup in
the field of
stereo image-processing hardware announced today the VS1501 DSP
stereo image
processor from Valde Systems based on the TMS320DM642 digital media
processor
from Texas Instruments (TI). The VS1501 is a high performance, low
cost
customizable image processor. It is part of a machine-vision inspection
system that typically sits on a production line. By analyzing images
from a
video camera, it identifies defective parts, and removes them from
the line
before more resources are wasted on them.
The VS1501 DSP stereo image processor is based on TI's DM642 digital
media
processor which allows it to achieve performance levels comparable
to a
desktop PC, at a lower price/ power point. The DM642 is optimal
for stereo
image processing applications because with three integrated video
ports, it
removes the traditional system bottleneck of transferring video
data over the
external memory bus. With the DM642, video data is easily accessible
by the
TMS320C64x(TM) DSP core.
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the entire article
 Brookline
NH June 25, 2004 - Valde Systems, developer of the high performance
stereo image processing hardware, has joined the Texas Instruments
(TI) Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Third Party Network. Valde
Systems open architecture hardware is available to security companies,
the machine vision industry, and the R&D community.
Valde Systems has created hardware that is compact, high performance,
low power, low cost, and stereo capable. The hardware has a number
of uses, including real time vision guided robotics, facial recognition,
and intelligent surveillance, for detecting packages left behind,
or simple motion detection. Stereo image processing brings an extra
dimension to traditional image processing systems. This can improve
the performance of applications, such as people tracking, autonomous
robotics, inspection, and facial recognition systems.
Intensive video processing functions that previous processors would
not be able to handle can now be run in real time using a digital
media processor that contains a DSP core. The DM64x(TM) suite of
digital media processors enable customers to improve system performance
at a lower system cost. We look forward to helping companies deploy
groundbreaking applications in the machine vision and security markets,
said Matthew Linder, President & CEO of Valde Systems.
Valde Systems open hardware architecture frees customers from the
limits of pre-packaged libraries. Cost savings are realized through
the elimination of royalty payments, annual subscriptions, and regression
testing. Valde Systems provides low-level driver code, as well as
facilitates a community of shareware between customers.
About the Texas Instruments Third Party Program
Valde Systems, Inc. is a member of TI's worldwide DSP third party
program. There are more than 650 independent companies offering
products and services that support TI DSPs. Products and services
include a broad range of application software, development hardware
and software, and consulting services helping customers increase
development efforts and accelerate time-to-market. For more information
on the TI third party program, please visit http://www.ti.com/3p.
About Valde Systems
Valde Systems, Inc. is a startup in the field of stereo image processing
hardware. The stereo capability allows better performance in applications
such as facial recognition, intelligent security cameras, autonomous
robotics, and industrial automation. Valde Systems seeks to leverage
the IEEE-1394 FireWire standard, the recently approve IEEE-1588
network timing standard, and the latest generation of Pentium 4
comparable DSPs to build image processing hardware that sets a new
price/performance point.
Emerging Standards and Networks Benefit Machine Vision Integrators
In many machine vision systems, bus-based standards such IEEE-1394
are gaining increasing importance as plug-and-play camera to computer
interfaces. At the same time, switched packet architectures such
as Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet are being incorporated into many
smart cameras and stand-alone machine vision systems.
In such systems, the trend away from the PC-based camera-to-frame
grabber interface is apparent. Using such systems, developers can
deploy distributed processing nodes on automated manufacturing lines
without the cost associated with deploying a PC-based system at
each node.
"In camera-to PC-based frame grabber configurations,"
says Matthew Linder, President and CEO of Valde Systems, Inc. (Brookline,
NH; www.valdesystems.com), "the frame grabber card interfaces
to the camera and acts as a central timing control point with dedicated
hardware to control the camera and strobe lighting." Although
this may appear to be relatively simple to implement, the interface
card can be complex and expensive, and since there are no standard
pin-outs to the devices it must control, custom cables and breakout
boxes may also be required. Worse, all the devices connected to
the frame grabber have some amount of in-deterministic behavior
associated with them that may cause problems, especially in higher
speed systems that require tighter timing tolerances between devices.
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the entire article
Watch Vision Systems Design magazine in May for another article
featuring Matthew Linder.
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Valde Systems to Introduce New Processor at The Vision Show
East
Come see us at Booth #107 in The Vision Show East, 2004 - May
4-6, 2004, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
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We're introducing our VS1501, our powerful new stereo vision processor
with 4000 MIPS of performance and the speed to handle tough image-processing
applications. Features include two independent, full-rate (not shared
bandwidth) IEEE-1394 FireWire interfaces, which make the VS1501 well
suited for stereo-vision applications as well as for single-camera
setups.
Valde Systems will be on hand throughout the show to explain the VS1501
and to offer suggestions as to how you can incorporate this small
processor in applications where you need stereo processing, reasonable
cost, and high-performance power.
Valde Systems, Inc. Begins Operations
August 24, 2003, Brookline, NH - Today, Valde Systems, Inc. officially
opened its R&D and operational facilities in Brookline, New Hampshire.
"This is an exciting time for us," said Matthew Linder,
president and CEO. "We feel our products represent a new price
and performance point in the machine-vision industry. We are determined
to provide quality products that will make machine-vision solutions
available to new markets; markets previously not served by traditional
machine-vision solutions due to high prices. At the same time,"
Linder added, "We believe all customers will find that our level
of performance and best-of-class software solutions are attractive
for traditional machine-vision applications."
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