Intel acquires Itseez, leading developer of OpenCV

by cpcat on 6/1/2016, 9:55 PM with 26 comments
  • by gambler on 6/2/2016, 12:06 AM

    > Intel is transforming from a PC company to a company that powers the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing devices.

    Sounds like they want to go the same route as HP and IBM. I.e. transform themselves from a company that does cutting-edge research and makes universally useful products into a corporate blob with no specific purpose and niche products of dubious quality.

  • by rawnlq on 6/2/2016, 1:22 AM

    I think it's a smart move. Every major tech company is investing heavily into VR/AR to hedge their bets. Examples:

      Facebook with Oculus(acquired for $2B)
  Google with Glasses, Cardboard, MagicLeap($542 million in series B)
  Apple with Metaio(acquired for ??)
  Microsoft with Hololens
  Sony with PSVR
  HTC/Valve with Vive
  Amazon with Flow app
  Snapchat with their filters
  Uber with self driving cars
    Basically every major company out there is doing something with AR or VR and they will all use OpenCV.

    Also despite the fact that a lot of computer vision algorithms are GPU accelerated, the vast majority of them (at least in opencv) runs on CPU only. Intel can definitely do a lot of great stuff there.

  • by ibrahima on 6/1/2016, 11:41 PM

    Funny to see Intel re-take control of OpenCV after handing it off(?) to Willow Garage and then Itseez. Guess it turned out to be more important than they initially thought?

    (?) Don't know the details of the transitions and why they occurred

  • by lettergram on 6/2/2016, 12:01 AM

    Pretty sure they are just trying to bring as much knowledge as they can inside Intel. Plus it's good for publicity amongst the computer vision crowd.

    I expect little to change.

  • by daraosn on 6/1/2016, 11:17 PM

    Ok, any guesses on so how would this affect their open source projects? i.e. OpenCV's license is 3-clause BSD, and of course as Intel started the project is a copyright holder, so things as usual?

  • by meursault334 on 6/2/2016, 3:15 AM

    I wonder what impact this will have on their Accelerated CV library.

    http://itseez.com/products/accelerated-cv/

    It would be nice if this and whatever iOS equivalent they presumably have in development became free or cheaply available. It seems like this might not be in intels best interest though.

  • by hodwik on 6/2/2016, 2:15 AM

    They also own a big stake in Tobii, leader in pupil tracking.

    Interesting to see them positioning themselves for the future here.

  • by fiatmoney on 6/2/2016, 1:22 AM

    The strategic case for it is that it lets them optimize the software for their hardware and vice versa - same reason they have C and Fortran compilers with a reputation for generally good number-crunching performance.

  • by gonzo41 on 6/2/2016, 7:45 AM

    They missed the ball by letting the mobile market get picket up by ARM. the internet of things is coming and its going to be the internet that sees things!

  • by urbanxs on 6/1/2016, 10:50 PM

    No it's not. Intel tried to be cool but it won't.

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