Computer STMicroelectronics. Competencies and Advanced Research Topics

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1 Computer STMicroelectronics Competencies and Advanced Research Topics Alessandro Capra (alessandro.capra@st.com) Mirko Guarnera (mirko.guarnera@st.com) AST SI Computer Vision Platform UniCT DMI IPLab Agenda 2 Presentation Time Speaker About ST AST Computer vision Active Research Areas for stage proposals Alessandro Capra Alessandro Capra Mirko Guarnera 1

2 3 About ST About ST 4 A global semiconductor leader The largest European semiconductor company 2011 revenues of $9.73B (1) Approx. 50,000 employees worldwide (1) 12,000 people working in R&D 12 manufacturing sites Listed on New York Stock Exchange, Euronext Paris and Borsa Italiana, Milano (1) Including ST-Ericsson, a 50:50 joint venture with Ericsson 2

3 An Unwavering Commitment to R&D 5 7 main technology R&D centers 39 design centers 20,000 patents 12,000 people in technology, design, product and system R&D Technology R&D centers Design Centers Access this map: People are our Foundation 6 Location Headcount Asia ~24,000 France ~11,000 Italy ~8,500 Malta & Morocco ~4,500 Rest of Europe ~2,500 United States ~1,500 24% 15% Direct Manufacturing 18% 43% Indirect Manufacturing Research & Development Sales, General & Administrative 36 + countries working everyday to increase the quality and experience of life for all 3

4 Location Overview ST CATANIA LOCATION OVERVIEW 7 Main distances: distance from airport 8 km ST 3SUN distance from port 10 km Catania Site: Workforce development 8 Univ Degree 1402 Others 98 High school % 21% 25% R & D & Designers Manufacturing Product Management&Administration 4

5 AST Computer vision Advanced System Technology 10 AST Mission To provide ST with leading edge innovation in Security/Imaging- Video/Connectivity, Ultra-Low Power & Healthcare ensuring an early IP access to all ST s divisions To address R&D in new fields to guarantee an early access to new Markets & Applications AST Vision To Provide the Company with long-term core business and leadership in key markets by: identifying fundamental market changes ensuring early access to Intellectual Property developing system architectures and prototypes pioneering and testing new business approaches while sensing potential new markets 5

6 IMAGING Computer Vision Platform: Solutions for Product Innovation 11 Printers Automotive Car Multimedia Digital Consumer Touch Imaging Computer Vision Platform Catania Lab 12 People: 14 Team active since 1999 Patents: 80+ Papers: 87+ in conferences, 30 in Journals Books: 1 book and several book chapters Joint Lab with IPLab DMI UniCT Active since 2007 Shared challenging R&D PhD sponsorships, contracts Collaborations with UniCT, UniMI-Bicocca 6

competencies 14 Acquisition Processing Global Noise Management Color

7 CV competencies 13 Acquisition CFA Sensor technology Wide gamut sensors Pixel Level Processing Auto Focus Auto exposure CV competencies 14 Acquisition Processing Global Noise Management Color Space Management Demosaicing Contrast enhancement Sharpening Video stabilization... 7

CV competencies 15 Acquisition Processing

compression JBIG JPEG - JPEG 2000 MPEG4.

8 CV competencies 15 Acquisition Processing Storage Channel coding Lossless compression JBIG JPEG - JPEG 2000 MPEG4.. CV competencies 16 Acquisition Processing Storage Services & Post-processing Face detection Red Eye Removal Blink Detection Scene Detection Panorama stitching Key point descriptors for AR Advanced user interfaces 8

9 CV competencies 17 Acquisition Processing Storage Rendering Services & Post-processing Printers pipelines Projection Display management 3D Graphics & AR Active Research Areas for stage proposals 9

Active Research programs in AST 19 Touch Panels Multi-touch Gesture recognition Proximity CDVS Keypoint descriptors Pico-Projection Color management

in Image Processing and Analytics for 3D Touch Displays: 20 Finger Approaching (direction, versus). Gesture Recognition (circle, pinch,.

10 Active Research programs in AST 19 Touch Panels Multi-touch Gesture recognition Proximity CDVS Keypoint descriptors Pico-Projection Color management Multi-sensor fusion Image analytics Scene detection Object detection Smart Cities Smart Camera applications Touch Displays AST exploits its competences in Image Processing and Analytics for 3D Touch Displays: 20 Finger Approaching (direction, versus). Gesture Recognition (circle, pinch,..): Shape Recognition for ear/cheek proximity detection Multi-touch Proximity Target markets: Smartphone/Tablet 3.5 ~ 7 Netbook/Tablet 7 ~12 Notebook/Tablet 10 ~

Capability to initiate a search using an image Can be implemented

Google Googles Bing mobile app Nokia s Point & Find Snaptell

com Essential functionality to enable Augmented Reality

OpenGL-ES needed Visual Search 21 Augmented navigation 22 Video

11 Capability to initiate a search using an image Can be implemented in mobile phones Mobile Visual Search Existing applications: Google Googles Bing mobile app Nokia s Point & Find Snaptell Kooaba Like.com Essential functionality to enable Augmented Reality Interoperability with 3D Graphics Compression and Khronos OpenGL-ES needed Visual Search 21 Augmented navigation 22 Video Input Output of Video Analytics Output of 3D Model & Position Compact Descriptors AR Content Searching Local/Remote DB for Augmented Information 11

Scene Classification: Purpose Scene classification

automatically classify images, distinguishing among

Building Target classes: {Building, Open Country,

12 Scene Classification: Purpose Scene classification (also known as Visual categorization) aims to automatically classify images, distinguishing among different classes, based on information extracted from the images. 23 Image representation Classification model Building Target classes: {Building, Open Country, Forest} Personal-projection 24 Final Fantasy 2005 Human interfaces Augmented reality Head up display 12

Color Management for Accurate Color Reproduction Color Management allows mapping source color space information (srgb, Adobe RGB, ) into the output device color space such that colour accuracy is

13 Color Management for Accurate Color Reproduction Color Management allows mapping source color space information (srgb, Adobe RGB, ) into the output device color space such that colour accuracy is preserved. 25 Source Image Source Gamut Color Management Color Managed Image Display Gamut Display Smart Cities 26 Low-cost low-power interconnected smart video cameras allow additional services 13

14 27 THANK YOU 14

Formal Analysis of the ACE Specification for Cache Coherent Systems-On-Chip

Formal Analysis of the ACE Specification for Cache Coherent Systems-On-Chip Abderahman KRIOUILE PhD student, STMicroelectronics Inria Rhône-Alpes LIG Wendelin SERWE Research scientist, Inria Rhône-Alpes