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European Camellia project successfully finished 31st March 2005
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Thursday, 21 July 2005
The Camellia project has brought together research and development engineers from different companies with knowledge on different aspects of smart imaging applications. The different fields of expertise and the active contribution of each of the project partners has been a key success factor for the project. Application partners contributed to the definition of the requirements of the targeted results, algorithmic partners defined the direction of the functionality that has to be implemented to achieve the application requirements, while partners with sound knowledge on system architectures and implementation of complex embedded systems were assigned to define the system architecture and the implementation of a prototype system. It has been clear from the beginning of the project that the project goals can only be achieved by an interactive way of working among the partners. The major challenge of the project was the targeted concurrent development and tuning of algorithms and system architecture. Due to the good cooperation between all partners the project team managed to cope with these challenging goals of the project.
The major goal of the project, i.e. the implementation of a prototyping system demonstrating the achievements of the project, has been met. This demonstrator includes all the major innovations implemented by the project. It is able to show that the envisaged applications from the automotive and mobile domain can be implemented in an embedded system based on the developed algorithms and architectures. Moreover, the project work contributed to find novel approaches for the way of working between algorithmic research and the development of competitive embedded systems. These results will definitely inspire the way future projects are executed by each partner and will contribute to help the industrial partners as well as the universities involved in the project to further increase the efficiency of work.
On top of the named achievements, the results of Camellia can be regarded as a stable starting point for the introduction of innovative and competitive solutions for the envisaged markets. The potential exploitation of results can be twofold: On one hand the developed algorithms can be introduced into products for automotive and mobile vision applications. On the other hand, the achievements in the area of embedded system architectures and implementation can lead to semiconductor products that are able to compete against the current DSP market leaders from outside Europe. Maximum gain for the European research and industrial community can be achieved if both, the algorithmic as well as the architectural results are combined into a set of novel products. The project partners are convinced that this is more than just a theoretical option. As the project achieved the status of a prototype implementation, the step towards a product implementation is associated with a limited initial investment. Therefore, it can be expected that the investment in the developed technologies will be attractive for the industry.
Based on the observations described above it can be stated that the Camellia project has reached its goal of realizing innovative solutions for smart imaging applications, while showing that the chosen approaches can be implemented at an attractive cost level. Hence, the Camellia project can be regarded as a major milestone for the introduction of smart imaging applications into daily life.
Link to the Executive Summary of the project.
Link to the list of Public Deliverables.
Link to some validation results (Low-Speed Obstacle Detection and Face Detection and Tracking sequences). |
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