New imaging applications are booming, from collaborative robots in Industry 4.0, to drones fighting fires or being used in agriculture, to biometric face recognition and point-of-care handheld medical devices at home. A key enabler in the emergence of these new applications is more accessibility for embedded vision. Embedded vision is not a new concept—it simply defines systems that include a vision setup that controls and processes data without an external computer. It has been widely used in industrial quality control in the form of what are generally referred to as “smart cameras”.

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