White Paper: Driving the New Era of Immersive Experiences describes how full immersion is achieved by simultaneously focusing on the broader dimensions of visual quality, sound quality, and intuitive interactions. The optimal way to enhance these broader dimensions requires an end-to-end approach, heterogeneous computing, and utilizing cognitive technologies.
Learn more at: https://www.qualcomm.com/immersive
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Presentation describing how full immersion is achieved by simultaneously focusing on the broader dimensions of visual quality, sound quality, and intuitive interactions. The optimal way to enhance these broader dimensions requires an end-to-end approach, heterogeneous computing, and utilizing cognitive technologies.
Check out the immersive experiences website for the latest information: https://www.qualcomm.com/invention/cognitive-technologies/immersive-experiences
Download the presentation at: https://www.qualcomm.com/documents/immersive-experiences-presentation
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I created this for Dell as Messaging Manager for consumer desktop PCs. I did the layout and graphics and wrote all of the copy. Before leaving Dell, I got permission to use documents shown here as samples of my work.
Presentation describing how full immersion is achieved by simultaneously focusing on the broader dimensions of visual quality, sound quality, and intuitive interactions. The optimal way to enhance these broader dimensions requires an end-to-end approach, heterogeneous computing, and utilizing cognitive technologies.
Check out the immersive experiences website for the latest information: https://www.qualcomm.com/invention/cognitive-technologies/immersive-experiences
Download the presentation at: https://www.qualcomm.com/documents/immersive-experiences-presentation
XPS™ One™ Sales Aid (2007 2-page flyer)Wayne Caswell
I created this for Dell as Messaging Manager for consumer desktop PCs. I did the layout and graphics and wrote all of the copy. Before leaving Dell, I got permission to use documents shown here as samples of my work.
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Color Grading with Media Composer® and Symphony™ 6 (Lesson 2)Avid
Color Grading with Media Composer and Symphony 6, Avid Worldwide Training’s newest publication, is designed for the intermediate to advanced Avid editor who wants to delve into the world of color correction and grading. It is the final book in the Avid Learning Series, published by Cengage Learning, and available today direct from the publisher and from major booksellers. Copyright Cengage Learning.
Gadget Night with Fred Davis: Just in Time for the Holidays
Tech journalist Fred Davis presents “Gadget Night” to SofTech on December 2, 2009. Fred is a fabulous speaker, and well-known journalist and entrepreneur. This presentation highlights some of the latest tech gadgets, along with Fred’s insights into the significant trends in consumer and business technology.
About the Speaker
Award-winning tech journalist, Fred Davis, is a Silicon Valley insider who has been at the forefront of technology hyper-change for the past 30 years. He has served as Editor for many of the world’s leading computer magazines, including A+, MacUser, PC Magazine, and PC Week, where he also started and ran the world’s leading technology product testing labs. Fred is the author of over a dozen books, and was a former tech correspondent for NPR’s All Things Considered.
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Ultra short throw Dukane projector
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508 East Calhoun Street
PO Box 1694
Sumter , SC 29151
Ken Eaddy, President
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Color Grading with Media Composer® and Symphony™ 6 (Lesson 2)Avid
Color Grading with Media Composer and Symphony 6, Avid Worldwide Training’s newest publication, is designed for the intermediate to advanced Avid editor who wants to delve into the world of color correction and grading. It is the final book in the Avid Learning Series, published by Cengage Learning, and available today direct from the publisher and from major booksellers. Copyright Cengage Learning.
Gadget Night with Fred Davis: Just in Time for the Holidays
Tech journalist Fred Davis presents “Gadget Night” to SofTech on December 2, 2009. Fred is a fabulous speaker, and well-known journalist and entrepreneur. This presentation highlights some of the latest tech gadgets, along with Fred’s insights into the significant trends in consumer and business technology.
About the Speaker
Award-winning tech journalist, Fred Davis, is a Silicon Valley insider who has been at the forefront of technology hyper-change for the past 30 years. He has served as Editor for many of the world’s leading computer magazines, including A+, MacUser, PC Magazine, and PC Week, where he also started and ran the world’s leading technology product testing labs. Fred is the author of over a dozen books, and was a former tech correspondent for NPR’s All Things Considered.
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SRG WhitePaper: The prospect of LTE and Wi-Fi sharing unlicensed spectrumQualcomm Research
White Paper by Signals Research: The prospect of LTE and Wi-Fi sharing unlicensed spectrum. Learn more at www.qualcomm.com/invention/technologies/lte/unlicensed
Making Immersive Virtual Reality Possible in MobileQualcomm Research
Virtual reality will provide the ultimate level of immersion, creating a sense of physical presence in real or imagined worlds.
This whitepaper describes:
• The unprecedented experiences and unlimited possibilities that VR enables.
• Why VR is happening now and how mobile technologies are accelerating VR adoption.
• The extreme requirements for immersive VR in terms of visual quality, sound quality, and intuitive interactions.
• Why Qualcomm Technologies is uniquely positioned to meet these extreme requirements and deliver superior mobile VR experiences
Learn more at: https://www.qualcomm.com/VR
Download the paper at: https://www.qualcomm.com/documents/whitepaper-making-immersive-virtual-reality-possible-mobile
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Making Immersive Virtual Reality Possible in MobileQualcomm Research
Virtual reality will provide the ultimate level of immersion, creating a sense of physical presence in real or imagined worlds.
This Qualcomm presentation describes:
• The unprecedented experiences and unlimited possibilities that VR enables.
• Why VR is happening now and how mobile technologies are accelerating VR adoption.
• The extreme requirements for immersive VR in terms of visual quality, sound quality, and intuitive interactions.
• Why Qualcomm Technologies is uniquely positioned to meet these extreme requirements and deliver superior mobile VR experiences
Learn more at: https://www.qualcomm.com/VR
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The media landscape changes significantly over the last few years by new content formats, new service offerings, additional consumption devices and new monetization models. Think of Netflix, DAZN, Mediatheks, mobile devices, interactive content, smart TVs, Virtual and Augmented Reality, and so on. Many of these efforts have been realized by a limited usage of standards, but are standards irrelevant? Secondly, more and more services are enabled by latest mobile compute platforms enabling new services and experiences. This presentation will provide an overview some of these trends and will motivate the development of global interop standards. Specific aspects will include the move of linear TV services to the Internet (both mobile and fixed) as well recent advances on Extended Reality and immersive media trends.
I recently had the pleasure of experiencing VRTrek, a virtual reality (VR) system created by the talented team at syedhaseeb261. As an avid enthusiast of virtual reality, I was eager to explore the capabilities of this new offering. After spending several hours diving into various virtual worlds and experiences, I can confidently say that VRTrek provides an exceptional and immersive journey.
First and foremost, the hardware itself is impressive. The headset is comfortable to wear, with a sleek design that doesn't compromise on functionality. The visuals are stunning, delivering crisp and vibrant graphics that bring virtual environments to life. The high-resolution display ensures that every detail is rendered with precision, enhancing the overall sense of realism.
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Whereas virtual reality replaces what people see and experience, augmented reality actually adds to it. Using devices such as HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and Google Cardboard, VR covers and replaces users' field of vision entirely, while AR projects images in front of them in a fixed area.
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Augmented Reality (AR) will be the next mobile computing platform, seamlessly merging the real world with virtual objects to support realistic, intelligent, and personalized experiences. Making this vision possible requires the next level of immersion, artificial intelligence, and connectivity within the thermal and power envelope of a wearable glasses.
Learn more at: https://www.qualcomm.com/invention/cognitive-technologies/immersive-experiences/augmented-reality
The Art of Digital Compositing Blending Realities to Perfection.pptxMotion Edits
Discover the mesmerizing world of digital compositing at Motion Edits. Learn the techniques of seamlessly blending realities to perfection in your visual creations. Unleash your creativity with our comprehensive tutorials and tips from industry experts. Elevate your compositing skills to new heights. Dive into the art of digital compositing today!
Generative AI models, such as ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, can create new and original content like text, images, video, audio, or other data from simple prompts, as well as handle complex dialogs and reason about problems with or without images. These models are disrupting traditional technologies, from search and content creation to automation and problem solving, and are fundamentally shaping the future user interface to computing devices. Generative AI can apply broadly across industries, providing significant enhancements for utility, productivity, and entertainment. As generative AI adoption grows at record-setting speeds and computing demands increase, on-device and hybrid processing are more important than ever. Just like traditional computing evolved from mainframes to today’s mix of cloud and edge devices, AI processing will be distributed between them for AI to scale and reach its full potential.
In this presentation you’ll learn about:
- Why on-device AI is key
- Full-stack AI optimizations to make on-device AI possible and efficient
- Advanced techniques like quantization, distillation, and speculative decoding
- How generative AI models can be run on device and examples of some running now
- Qualcomm Technologies’ role in scaling on-device generative AI
As generative AI adoption grows at record-setting speeds and computing demands increase, hybrid processing is more important than ever. But just like traditional computing evolved from mainframes and thin clients to today’s mix of cloud and edge devices, AI processing must be distributed between the cloud and devices for AI to scale and reach its full potential. In this talk you’ll learn:
• Why on-device AI is key
• Which generative AI models can run on device
• Why the future of AI is hybrid
• Qualcomm Technologies’ role in making hybrid AI a reality
Qualcomm Webinar: Solving Unsolvable Combinatorial Problems with AIQualcomm Research
How do you find the best solution when faced with many choices? Combinatorial optimization is a field of mathematics that seeks to find the most optimal solutions for complex problems involving multiple variables. There are numerous business verticals that can benefit from combinatorial optimization, whether transport, supply chain, or the mobile industry.
More recently, we’ve seen gains from AI for combinatorial optimization, leading to scalability of the method, as well as significant reductions in cost. This method replaces the manual tuning of traditional heuristic approaches with an AI agent that provides a fast metric estimation.
In this presentation you will find out:
Why AI is crucial in combinatorial optimization
How it can be applied to two use cases: improving chip design and hardware-specific compilers
The state-of-the-art results achieved by Qualcomm AI Research
- There is a rich roadmap of 5G technologies coming in the second half of the 5G decade with the 5G Advanced evolution
- 6G will be the future innovation platform for 2030 and beyond building on the 5G Advanced foundation
- 6G will be more than just a new radio design, expanding the role of AI, sensing and others in the connected intelligent edge
- Qualcomm is leading cutting-edge wireless research across six key technology vectors on the path to 6G
3D perception is crucial for understanding the real world. It offers many benefits and new capabilities over 2D across diverse applications, from XR and autonomous driving to IOT, camera, and mobile. 3D perception with machine learning is creating the new state of the art (SOTA) in areas, such as depth estimation, object detection, and neural scene representation. Making these SOTA neural networks feasible for real-world deployment on mobile devices constrained by power, thermal, and performance has been a challenge. Qualcomm AI Research has developed not only novel AI techniques for 3D perception but also full-stack AI optimizations to enable real-world deployments and energy-efficient solutions. This presentation explores the latest research that is enabling efficient 3D perception while maintaining neural network model accuracy. You’ll learn about:
- The advantages of 3D perception over 2D and the need for 3D perception across applications
- Advancements in 3D perception research by Qualcomm AI Research
- Our future 3D perception research directions
5G is going mainstream across the globe, and this is an exciting time to harness the low latency and high capacity of 5G to enable the metaverse. A distributed-compute architecture across device and cloud can enable rich extended reality (XR) user experiences. Virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) are ready for deployment in private networks, while augmented reality (AR) for wide area networks can be enabled in the near term with Wi-Fi powered AR glasses paired with a 5G-enabled phone. Device APIs enabling application adaptation is critical for good user experience. 5G standards are evolving to support the deployment of AR glasses at a large scale and setting the stage for 6G-era with the merging of the physical, digital, and virtual worlds. Techniques like perception-enhanced wireless offer significant potential to improve user experience. Qualcomm Technologies is enabling the XR industry with platforms, developer SDKs, and reference designs.
Check out this webinar to learn:
• How 5G and distributed-compute architectures enable the metaverse
• The latest results from our boundless XR 5G/6G testbed, including device APIs and perception-enhanced wireless
• 5G standards evolution for enhancing XR applications and the road to 6G
• How Qualcomm Technologies is enabling the industry with platforms, SDKs, and reference designs
AI model efficiency is crucial for making AI ubiquitous, leading to smarter devices and enhanced lives. Besides the performance benefit, quantized neural networks also increase power efficiency for two reasons: reduced memory access costs and increased compute efficiency.
The quantization work done by the Qualcomm AI Research team is crucial in implementing machine learning algorithms on low-power edge devices. In network quantization, we focus on both pushing the state-of-the-art (SOTA) in compression and making quantized inference as easy to access as possible. For example, our SOTA work on oscillations in quantization-aware training that push the boundaries of what is possible with INT4 quantization. Furthermore, for ease of deployment, the integer formats such as INT16 and INT8 give comparable performance to floating point, i.e., FP16 and FP8, but have significantly better performance-per-watt performance. Researchers and developers can make use of this quantization research to successfully optimize and deploy their models across devices with open-sourced tools like AI Model Efficiency Toolkit (AIMET).
Presenters: Tijmen Blankevoort and Chirag Patel
Bringing AI research to wireless communication and sensingQualcomm Research
AI for wireless is already here, with applications in areas such as mobility management, sensing and localization, smart signaling and interference management. Recently, Qualcomm Technologies has prototyped the AI-enabled air interface and launched the Qualcomm 5G AI Suite. These developments are possible thanks to expertise in both wireless and machine learning from over a decade of foundational research in these complementing fields.
Our approach brings together the modeling flexibility and computational efficiency of machine learning and the out-of-domain generalization and interpretability of wireless domain expertise.
In this webinar, Qualcomm AI Research presents an overview of state-of-the-art research at the intersection of the two fields and offers a glimpse into the future of the wireless industry.
Qualcomm AI Research is an initiative of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Speakers:
Arash Behboodi, Machine Learning Research Scientist (Senior Staff Engineer/Manager), Qualcomm AI Research Daniel Dijkman, Machine Learning Research Scientist (Principal Engineer), Qualcomm AI Research
How will sidelink bring a new level of 5G versatility.pdfQualcomm Research
Today, the 5G system mainly operates on a network-to-device communication model, exemplified by enhanced mobile broadband use cases where all data transmissions are between the network (i.e., base station) and devices (e.g., smartphone). However, to fully deliver on the original 5G vision of supporting diverse devices, services, and deployment scenarios, we need to expand the 5G topology further to reach new levels of performance and efficiency.
That is why sidelink communication was introduced in 3GPP standards, designed to facilitate direct communication between devices, independent of connectivity via the cellular infrastructure. Beyond automotive communication, it also benefits many other 5G use cases such as IoT, mobile broadband, and public safety.
5G is designed to serve an unprecedented range of capabilities with a single global standard. With enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive IoT (mIoT), and mission-critical IoT, the three pillars of 5G represent extremes in performance and associated complexity. For IoT services, NB-IoT and eMTC devices prioritize low power consumption and the lowest complexity for wide-area deployments (LPWA), while enhanced ultra-reliable, low-latency communication (eURLLC), along with time-sensitive networking (TSN), delivers the most stringent use case requirements. But there exists an opportunity to more efficiently address a broad range of mid-tier applications with capabilities ranging between these extremes.
In 5G NR Release 17, 3GPP introduced a new tier of reduced capability (RedCap) devices, also known as NR-Light. It is a new device platform that bridges the capability and complexity gap between the extremes in 5G today with an optimized design for mid-tier use cases. With the recent standards completion, NR-Light is set to efficiently expand the 5G universe to connect new frontiers.
Download this presentation to learn:
• What NR-Light is and why it can herald the next wave of 5G expansion
• How NR-Light is accelerating the growth of the connected intelligent edge
• Why NR-Light is a suitable 5G migration path for mid-tier LTE devices
Realizing mission-critical industrial automation with 5GQualcomm Research
Manufacturers seeking better operational efficiencies, with reduced downtime and higher yield, are at the leading edge of the Industry 4.0 transformation. With mobile system components and reliable wireless connectivity between them, flexible manufacturing systems can be reconfigured quickly for new tasks, to troubleshoot issues, or in response to shifts in supply and demand.
There is a long history of R&D collaboration between Bosch Rexroth and Qualcomm Technologies for the effective application of these 5G capabilities to industrial automation use cases. At the Robert Bosch Elektronik GmbH factory in Salzgitter, Germany, this collaboration has reached new heights.
Download this deck to learn how:
• Qualcomm Technologies and Bosch Rexroth are collaborating to accelerate the Industry 4.0 transformation
• 5G technologies deliver key capabilities for mission-critical industrial automation
• Distributed control solutions can work effectively across 5G TSN networks
• A single 5G technology platform solves connectivity and positioning needs for flexible manufacturing
3GPP Release 17: Completing the first phase of 5G evolutionQualcomm Research
This presentation summarizes 5G NR Release 17 projects that was completed in March 2022. It further enhances 5G foundation and expands into new devices, use cases, verticals.
AI firsts: Leading from research to proof-of-conceptQualcomm Research
AI has made tremendous progress over the past decade, with many advancements coming from fundamental research from many decades ago. Accelerating the pipeline from research to commercialization has been daunting since scaling technologies in the real world faces many challenges beyond the theoretical work done in the lab. Qualcomm AI Research has taken on the task of not only generating novel AI research but also being first to demonstrate proof-of-concepts on commercial devices, enabling technology to scale in the real world. This presentation covers:
The challenges of deploying cutting-edge research on real-world mobile devices
How Qualcomm AI Research is solving system and feasibility challenges with full-stack optimizations to quickly move from research to commercialization
Examples where Qualcomm AI Research has had industrial or academic firsts
Setting off the 5G Advanced evolution with 3GPP Release 18Qualcomm Research
In December 2021, 3GPP has reached a consensus on the scope of 5G NR Release 18. This is a significant milestone marking the beginning of 5G Advanced — the second wave of wireless innovations that will fulfill the 5G vision. Release 18 will build on the solid foundation set by Releases 15, 16, and 17, and it sets the longer-term evolution direction of 5G and beyond. This release will encompass a wide range of new and enhancement projects, ranging from improved MIMO and application of AI/ML-enabled air interface to extended reality optimizations and broader IoT support.
Cellular networks have facilitated positioning in addition to voice or data communications from the beginning, since 2G, and we’ve since grown to rely on positioning technology to make our lives safer, simpler, more productive, and even fun. Cellular positioning complements other technologies to operate indoors and outdoors, including dense urban environments where tall buildings interfere with satellite positioning. It works whether we’re standing still, walking, or in a moving vehicle. With 5G, cellular positioning breaks new ground to bring robust precise positioning indoors and outdoors, to meet even the most demanding Industry 4.0 needs.
As we look to the future, the Connected Intelligent Edge will bring a new dimension of positional insight to a broad range of devices, improving wireless use cases still under development. We’re already charting the course to 5G Advanced and beyond by working on the evolution of cellular positioning technology to include RF sensing for situational awareness.
Download the deck to learn more.
The need for intelligent, personalized experiences powered by AI is ever-growing. Our devices are producing more and more data that could help improve our AI experiences. How do we learn and efficiently process all this data from edge devices while maintaining privacy? On-device learning rather than cloud training can address these challenges. In this presentation, we’ll discuss:
- Why on-device learning is crucial for providing intelligent, personalized experiences without sacrificing privacy
- Our latest research in on-device learning, including few-shot learning, continuous learning, and federated learning
- How we are solving system and feasibility challenges to move from research to commercialization
This presentation outlines the synergistic nature of 5G and AI -- two disruptive areas of innovations that can change the world. It illustrates the benefits of adopting AI for the advancements of 5G, as well as showcases the latest progress made by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Data compression has increased by leaps and bounds over the years due to technical innovation, enabling the proliferation of streamed digital multimedia and voice over IP. For example, a regular cadence of technical advancement in video codecs has led to massive reduction in file size – in fact, up to a 1000x reduction in file size when comparing a raw video file to a VVC encoded file. However, with the rise of machine learning techniques and diverse data types to compress, AI may be a compelling tool for next-generation compression, offering a variety of benefits over traditional techniques. In this presentation we discuss:
- Why the demand for improved data compression is growing
- Why AI is a compelling tool for compression in general
- Qualcomm AI Research’s latest AI voice and video codec research
- Our future AI codec research work and challenges
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
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Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
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Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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Contents
1 Executive summary 4
2 Immersion enhances experiences 4
3 Focusing on the broader dimensions of immersion 5
3.1 Visual quality — focusing on pixel quality rather than just pixel quantity 6
3.2 Sound quality — high resolution audio and sound integrity 7
3.3 Intuitive interactions — natural user interfaces and contextual interactions 8
4 The optimal approach to enhance the broader dimensions 9
4.1 Taking an end-to-end approach for comprehensive solutions 9
4.2 Utilizing heterogeneous computing for efficiency 10
4.3 Applying cognitive technologies for intelligence 11
5 QTI is uniquely positioned 12
5.1 Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ processors 12
5.2 Ecosystem enablement 13
6 Conclusion 14
4. 4
Immersion enhances everyday experiences, making them more realistic, engaging, and satisfying. Virtual reality is the ultimate level
of immersion, but consumers want immersive experiences on all their devices — whether playing a video game on a smartphone,
video conferencing on a tablet, or watching a movie on a TV. The goal is to provide the appropriate level of immersion based on
the device form factor, use case, and context. This paper examines to how to make this goal possible.
The three pillars of immersive experiences are visual quality, sound quality, and intuitive interactions. Full immersion can only
be achieved by simultaneously focusing on the broader dimensions of each pillar. Too often, the focus has been on specific
dimensions, such as pixel quantity, rather than other dimensions, like pixel quality, which may be equally or more important for
specific use cases.
The optimal way to enhance these broader dimensions for more immersive experiences requires:
• Taking an end-to-end approach for comprehensive solutions
• Utilizing heterogeneous computing for efficiency
• Applying cognitive technologies for on-device intelligence
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (QTI) is uniquely positioned to enhance the broader dimensions of immersive experiences by custom
designing specialized engines across the SoC and offering comprehensive ecosystem support.
1 Executive summary
2 Immersion enhances experiences
The experiences worth having, remembering, and reliving are immersive — experiences like a live sporting event, an exotic
vacation, a concert performance, a great movie, or nature. Immersive experiences draw you in, take you to another place, and keep
you present in the moment. With more distractions than ever in modern life, an immersive experience makes you focus, filter out
noise, and be part of the experience, rather than a passive observer.
Immersive experiences stimulate your senses — your vision, your hearing, your smell, your taste — and your imagination. For
example, imagine viewing a sunset at the Grand Canyon. Your eyes might be stimulated by the marvelous colors of the sunset,
your ears by the sound of a bird flying by, your nose by the clean smell of fresh air, and your skin by the slight humidity in the air.
Immersion will enhance everyday experiences, making them more realistic, engaging, and satisfying. For example, experiences such
as (Figure 1):
• Watching movies, sports, or other types of videos that make you feel like you are actually there, such as at the Super Bowl,
the World Cup, or a Rolling Stones concert.
• Playing mobile games with visual user experiences so realistic that they suck you into the action.
• Video conferencing with the family as if you are all in the same room.
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3 Focusing on the broader dimensions of immersion
• Seamlessly interacting with the user interfaces (UI) of magazines, web pages, and showrooms.
• Augmented reality (AR)1
, where objects, such as a toy or image, are brought to life. AR blurs the lines between physical
and digital, allowing users to interact with the physical world around them in new ways.
• Virtual reality (VR)2
enables users to experience just about anything imaginable, such as explore the Seven Wonders
of the World, play video games, and interact with other people in new ways. VR, when done right, is the ultimate level of
immersion since it stimulates the human senses with feedback that is so realistic that it convinces the brain that the
virtual experience is real.
Various levels of immersion are achievable across different device form factors. For example, all these experiences could be
completely immersive on a VR headset and highly immersive on a smartphone, while the visual experience on a smartwatch may
not be quite as immersive due to the small screen. The goal is to make experiences appropriately immersive by taking into account
device constraints. The rest of this paper will explore the key elements of immersive experiences and optimal approaches to
making them possible.
Life-like video
conferencing
Smooth, interactive,
cognitive user interfaces
Augmented reality-based New virtual reality
applications
Realistic gaming
experiences
Theater-quality movies
and live sports
Figure 1: Immersion enhances everyday experiences across devices
The three pillars of immersive experiences are visual quality, sound quality, and intuitive interactions. While each pillar stands alone
at making experiences more immersive — think of the importance of the visual quality when viewing a photo or sound quality
when listening to music — they are also complementary and synergistic. Immersion happens when all three pillars are combined
together. Within each pillar, there are multiple dimensions that improve the overall quality. Full immersion can only be achieved by
simultaneously focusing on the broader dimensions of each pillar.
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Augmented reality means the use of computer vision to recognize and reconstruct objects and environments in real time, together with the use of the resulting positional data to superimpose content over a real-time image of a
real-world scene, such that the content appears to a viewer to be part of the real-world scene.
2
Virtual reality means using a combination of sensors and/or video and/or 3D graphics and/or audio technology to replicate an environment that simulates physical presence in places in the real world or imagined worlds, and enabling
the user interact in that world.
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Visual quality — focusing on pixel quality rather than just pixel quantity
Figure 2: Full immersion by focusing on the broader dimensions
Sound integrity
Pixel quantity
Pixel quality
Natural user interface Contextual interactions
SOUND
QUALITY
VISUAL
QUALITY
INTUITIVE
INTERACTIONS
IMMERSION
High resolution
audio
Too often, the focus has been on dimensions that do not necessarily provide the most efficient use of silicon for improving user
experience.
3.1
The two key dimensions of visual quality are pixel quantity and pixel quality. Although pixel quantity is very important, there are
diminishing returns as pixel quantity increases for specific use cases. Pixel quality is equally important for improving visual quality.
Resolution and frame rate are the two key aspects of pixel quantity (Figure 3). Resolution, which is the number of pixels in the
horizontal and vertical direction, is the specification most often advertised for cameras and displays. There’s been explosive growth
in the number of pixels in mobile devices, with tablets and smartphones approaching 4K display resolutions and camera image
sensors surpassing 20 megapixels. This improvement in pixels-per-inch has dramatically improved visual quality, since increased
resolution results in increased definition and sharpness. Frame rate is a measure of how many frames are processed per second.
Displays, for example, are usually refreshed at 60 frames per second. Increased frame rates reduce blurring and ghosting, which is
important for fast moving objects, as seen in sports or an action movie.
Pixel quality is a function of color accuracy, contrast, and brightness (Figure 4). Improved color accuracy is achieved through
an expanded color gamut, color depth, and color temperature. Color accuracy is very important, whether you are trying to pick
the correct matching dress as a bridesmaid or the right paint for the living room. The color gamut is the range of colors that are
able to be captured and reproduced, such as the ability to reproduce a specific hue of green. The color gamut of a display and
camera is often less than what humans are a capable of seeing in the real world. With color gamuts becoming “wider” — capable
of displaying more colors — it is essential to have an increased color depth, which is the number of bits used to actually represent
each color. For example, 24-bit RGB color uses 8 bits to represent the red channel. Color temperature is used interchangeably with
white balance, which allows a global adjustment of the intensities of the colors to make a displayed image appear to have the same
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Sound quality — high resolution audio and sound integrity3.2
general appearance as the original scene. Contrast enables more realistic images with a wider dynamic range in light intensity.
Brightness provides better viewing in high lighting conditions, like when you are at the beach on a sunny day.
Resolution
Increased definition and sharpness
Frame Rate
Reduced blurring and latency
Color Accuracy
More realistic colors through an
expanded color gamut, depth, and
temperature
Contrast and Brightness
Increased detail through a larger
dynamic range and lighting
enhancements
Note that increased resolution and frame rate increase performance, power, and cost requirements of many components of a
device, such as the SoC, memory, camera, and display. Focusing on the right dimensions and making the appropriate tradeoffs is
essential. For example, focusing more on the quality of each pixel can be a more efficient way to improve visual quality.
The two key dimensions of sound quality are high resolution audio and sound integrity. When the sound is realistic and matches
the visual, you are truly immersed in the experience. In contrast, when the sound quality is compromised, you immediately notice it
— think of a movie where the audio was muffled or mismatched the lip movements. Just as the smell of great food can enhance its
perceived taste, so too does clear, realistic, 3D sound make visual user experiences more immersive.
Figure 3: Resolution and frame are the two key aspects of pixel quality
Figure 4: Pixel quality is a function of color accuracy, contrast, and brightness
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Intuitive interactions — natural user interfaces and contextual interactions3.3
High resolution audio has a sampling rate and precision that is high enough for the full spectrum of human hearing. Increased
sampling rates capture both the low frequency sounds, such as water dripping, and high frequency sounds, such as birds chirping,
so that the entire audio environment can be reproduced. Increased precision, or bits-per-sample, improve audio fidelity. More bits
allow the analog sound signal to be reproduced more precisely when converted to digital.
Sound integrity includes 3D surround sound and clear audio. 3D surround sound provides realistic capture and playback of audio
for personalized, immersive experiences. 3D surround sound reaches the left and right ear at the appropriate time and with the
appropriate intensity so that the sound conveys the right direction, distance, and volume as it would in the real world. For example,
you can hear the direction of a plane flying over your head before you see it on a movie screen or hear where an explosion is
coming from in a video game. To capture and play back audio properly in surround sound, the audio industry is moving from
channel-based audio to scene-based3
and object-based audio. Scene-based audio captures the audio scene as a field of sound
pressure values at all points in a space over time. Object-based audio individually captures audio from various sound sources in
the scene, such as people, animals, vehicles, or weapons. Clear audio allows you to zoom and focus on the sound you want to hear
while filtering out the noise by using multiples mics. This is very useful when trying to have a conversation on a phone in a noisy
environment or when recording the sound at your child’s concert performance.
Intuitive interactions immerse you in the experience by stimulating your senses with realistic feedback. Humans are very
perceptive at noticing things that feel out of place or do not behave in a natural way, which takes you out of the moment. Natural
user interfaces and contextual interactions are the two key dimensions for intuitive interactions.
Natural user interfaces, such as gestures and voice, allow you to interact with devices in the most natural way, making the
interaction intuitive and efficient. User interfaces have evolved over time from punch cards, to command line interfaces with a
keyboard, to graphical user interfaces with a mouse, to touch and other more natural user interfaces. Natural user interfaces should
be:
• Seamless and effectively invisible, as if you aren’t dealing with an interface. The appropriate user interface needs to be
made available based on the user, device form factor, and application.
• Responsive, since any perceived stutter or delay takes you out of immersion and is annoying. For example, consider how a
lag in the display updating can ruin an experience when swiping a touch screen, moving a mouse, or moving your head in
a virtual reality headset.
• Accurate for the task at hand. For example, very accurate touch is essential for precisely editing a photo on a smartphone
with high pixel density.
Contextual interactions allow devices to intelligently interact with users and provide personalized experiences based on context.
Devices will be intelligent, notifying you when appropriate and blocking unnecessary interruptions. You can stay immersed and
undistracted, knowing that you are not missing something important. For example, your device would block certain notifications,
such as an unimportant phone call, especially while watching a movie, playing a game, or driving home. However, there will be times
when you want to be interrupted due to safety, convenience, or importance. Imagine being so immersed in an experience, such as
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https://www.qualcomm.com/scene-based-audio
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4
https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2013/08/13/system-approach-mobile-heterogeneous-computing
virtual reality, that you would walk into a table, miss the baby crying, or miss the doorbell ringing. Based on context, the device will
know when to interrupt you, and you’ll trust the device to do it appropriately.
Devices will also provide personalized experiences based on useful context to enhance experiences and remove friction. For
example, imagine being in a new city, at an amusement park, or at a museum. Your device through augmented reality would
suggest activities of interest or provides relevant information, such as a nearby event, restaurant, sale, or friend.
4 The optimal approach to enhance the broader dimensions
Achieving full immersion is very challenging due to the performance, power, thermal, and cost constraints of devices. The optimal
way to enhance these broader dimensions of visual quality, sound quality, and intuitive interactions requires taking an end-to-end
approach, utilizing heterogeneous computing, and applying cognitive technologies.
Taking an end-to-end approach for comprehensive solutions4.1
Taking an end-to-end approach means thinking holistically at the system level4
, understanding all the challenges, and working
with other companies in the ecosystem to develop comprehensive solutions. For example, maintaining color accuracy, which is
a key aspect of visual quality, from camera to display requires an end-to-end approach. Consider how an image is captured and
displayed, and the challenges that must be overcome.
For the camera module, mobile size and cost constraints make it challenging to have large, high-quality glass lenses often found
in DSLR cameras. Also, as the resolution of camera sensors has increased, the effective area on the sensor per pixel continues to
decrease, resulting in less light gathering per pixel and increased noise. Similarly, there are physical and power limitations of LCD
and LED displays. Displays are not yet able to emit the full color gamut that humans can perceive. There are also power constraints
Component tuning | Image processing | System optimization
End-to-end solutions
Lens and sensor SoC Display
SoC
Figure 5: Taking an end-to-end approach to mobile photography
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5
https://www.qualcomm.com/products/snapdragon/heterogeneous-computing
6
https://www.qualcomm.com/documents/whitepaper-breakthrough-mobile-imaging-experiences
Utilizing heterogeneous computing for efficiency4.2
that must be overcome, particularly when trying to improve the ability to view content in bright sunlight. The SoC addresses the
camera and display challenges while also enhancing the visual quality through image processing.
End-to-end solutions are required for several system-level visual quality challenges besides color management, such as artifact
removal and optimized click-to-shoot time. The holistic way to address these challenges requires:
• Component tuning tools to calibrate the camera and display for key visual quality aspects, such as the proper color gamut.
• Image processing, which involves preserving color accuracy and consistency across the system while efficiently
enhancing and processing pixels.
• System optimization and coordination across the entire device, including hardware, software, and components. For
example, an enhanced camera experience requires optimizing the latency for auto-focus, click-to-shoot, and shot-to-shot.
Similar to visual quality, sound quality and intuitive interactions also require an end-to-end approach. For sound quality, the journey
of audio from the microphone to the speaker is challenging, with many opportunities for optimizations across the system. An
end-to-end approach is also required to address many of the intuitive interactions requirements, specifically minimizing latency
for natural UIs. For example, consider virtual reality where users interact with their head mounted display in natural ways, such as
moving their head. The time from the head movement to the screen being updated, also known as “motion to display”, needs to be
very fast. If not, the user will see the display stuttering, making the experience less immersive and possibly making the user sick.
To efficiently enable immersive experiences within the challenging constraints of mobile devices, it is essential to utilize
heterogeneous computing. Heterogeneous computing5
runs the appropriate task on specialized engines across the SoC to meet
the processing requirements of immersive experiences at low
power and thermals.
For example, image processing tasks, such as computational
photography6
, are crucial for visual quality and use the majority
of the processing engines in the SoC. The ISP, GPU, DSP, CPU,
display engine, and memory subsystem are highly utilized and
must all work in harmony to efficiently enhance images and
provide features, such as high dynamic range (HDR), low-light
photography, and focus anywhere capabilities (Figure 6).
Natural user interfaces, such as gesture recognition, use computer
vision to interpret hand movements. Computer vision runs on the
ISP, CPU, GPU, and DSP to improve efficiency. In addition, voice
recognition and processing would primarily run on the DSP and
partially use the CPU.
The key point of heterogeneous computing is to increase efficiency. It should be noted that the CPU, which is often the most
talked about processing engine, is only used for some tasks and often is not highly utilized.
Location
GPU
Display engine
Camera ISP Modem
DSP
(audio, sensor, &
camera co-processor)
CPUs
Memory
subsystem
Video engine
* Not to scaleHigh utilization
No utilization
Figure 6: Utilizing heterogeneous computing for
computational photography
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Applying cognitive technologies for intelligence4.3
Cognitive technologies, like machine learning and computer vision, make
experiences more immersive. They enable devices to perceive, reason, and take
intuitive actions so that devices can learn your preferences, personalize your
experiences, and enable intuitive interactions.
For example, cognitive technologies improve visual and sound quality by
automatically capturing better pixels and clearer 3D surround sound. Consider
the scenario that you are at your child’s play and want to record the special
moment (Figure 7). Through machine learning and computer vision, your device
would understand the scene — it would know that you are at a play, which child
is yours, and that you are most interested in recording your child. The camera
would automatically configure its settings, such as the exposure time, white
balance, and depth of field, based on the environment at the play. The camera
would automatically track, zoom, and focus on areas of importance, which in this case is your child.
Similarly, audio sensing allows the device to understand the environment, identify your child’s voice, and then automatically adjust
its settings. The microphones would track, zoom, and focus on your child’s voice, removing audience noise and separating your
child’s voice from other sounds.
Immersive visual playback allows you to relive the moment in its full glory, personalized to how you like it. You can imagine pixels
adjusting to your preferences automatically — such as your preferred color, brightness, or contrast — or based on the sunlight
and ambient light to provide the best visual experience. Sound will also be
much more personalized. Immersive audio playback provides personalized
and realistic 3D surround sound (Figure 8). With just two speakers, it is
possible to create 3D surround sound so that you hear sound coming from the
correct direction, as it does in real life. Even if the device or your head moves,
facial recognition and head tracking can compensate the audio playback to
dynamically maintain the 3D surround sound.
Interactions are being made more intuitive through cognitive technologies.
Natural user interfaces use cognitive technologies to provide much more
intuitive interactions that are adaptive and multimodal. For example, motion
and gesture recognition use computer vision and motion sensors to recognize
gestures, such as hand or head movements. In addition, the device will adapt
the UI to your preferences through machine learning, enriching the experience
and making it more immersive. For example, devices will adjust the screen UI to
Figure 7: Capturing immersive visuals
and sound
Figure 8: Immersive 3D surround sound even as
the device or head moves
what you want to see, such as your calendar, email, weather, camera, without you even pushing a button.
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Contextual awareness will make your device more intelligent and personalized, providing the right level of immersion. Contextual
awareness is created through cognitive capabilities, such as scene recognition, sensor fusion, proximal awareness, and learned
preferences.
5 QTI is uniquely positioned
Qualcomm Technologies is uniquely positioned to enhance the broader dimensions of immersive experiences. QTI intends to make
experiences more immersive by designing efficient solutions that meet the device constraints and help the ecosystem quickly
bring products to consumers. We see opportunities to improve immersive experiences by focusing on the three pillars.
• For visual quality, we are focused on consistent accurate color, in-focus images, and low-light video & photography.
• For sound quality, we are focused on realistic 3D surround sound, noise removal, and a dynamic sweet spot.
• For intuitive interactions, we are focused on seamless and responsive user interfaces, while supporting intelligent
contextual interactions.
QTI is designing solutions to meet the immersive experiences requirements within the device constraints with regards to
performance, power, and thermals. We are positioned to meet the unique challenges of the mobile industry in the areas of:
• Fast development cycles with customers who increasingly require more comprehensive solutions.
• Sleek, passively cooled form factors that become thinner and more challenging to design for each generation.
• Reduced cost of technologies so that our customers can deploy new and more immersive experiences to consumers
worldwide.
We enable the industry to commercialize devices and experiences via Snapdragon solutions and ecosystem enablement.
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ processors5.1
Snapdragon processors are designed to efficiently support immersive
experiences. For Snapdragon solutions, QTI has made the appropriate
tradeoffs and focused on the right dimensions to design efficient
SoCs. We offer custom-designed processing engines, efficient
heterogeneous computing, comprehensive solutions across tiers, and
cognitive computing capabilities.
Rather than licensing off-the-shelf processing engines, we have
custom designed several processing engines to be optimized for
specific tasks, use cases, and efficiency.
For example, the new custom Qualcomm® Adreno™ 530 GPU and
Qualcomm Spectra™ camera ISP in Qualcomm Technologies’ recently
Qualcomm® Adreno™
GPU
Qualcomm® Kryo™/
Qualcomm® Krait™
CPUs
* Not to scale
Qualcomm®
Hexagon™
DSP
Qualcomm®
Adreno™ Video
Memory
Subsystem
Qualcomm
Spectra™
ISP
Qualcomm®
Snapdragon “X”
LTE Modem
Qualcomm®
Adreno™
Display
Figure 9: Snapdragon processors are custom
designed with specialized engines7
7
Some features are only available on specific Snapdragon processors. Consult processor specifications for feature availability.
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Ecosystem enablement5.2
announced Snapdragon 820 processor are engineered to significantly enhance the visual processing capabilities to support next-
generation immersive experiences related to computational photography, virtual reality, and photo-realistic graphics.
By custom designing superior processing engines, we also gain tremendous insight that we use to make system-level
optimizations. QTI takes a system approach to design an optimal heterogeneous computing solution. We make hardware decisions
based on the applications and tasks that need to be executed. Through optimized system-level software, we then run the tasks on
the most appropriate engines.
QTI offers comprehensive solutions across tiers. We have four tiers of Snapdragon processors that allow customers to select
the product that meets their performance, functionality, and cost needs. In addition, our software often works across tiers, so
customers can reduce their development costs and commercialization time.
Qualcomm® Zeroth™ platform is our cognitive computing platform that will ship with Snapdragon processors, starting with the
Snapdragon 820 processor. It is a highly-optimized hardware and software platform designed to deliver intuitive experiences and
on-device cognitive capabilities by taking full advantage of the:
• Heterogeneous compute capabilities within our highly integrated Snapdragon processors
• Algorithmic innovations in machine learning, computer vision, and low power sensor processing
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https://www.qualcomm.com/invention/cognitive-technologies/zeroth
QTI works closely with Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Independent Hardware Vendors (IHVs), OEMs, and OS vendors
to provide optimized solutions. We enable the ecosystem to quickly commercialize products through comprehensive tools and
Snapdragon development platforms.
For app developers, QTI provides comprehensive content creation tools that fit within their software development toolchains.
Developers often work through an iterative loop of developing, debugging, and optimizing. We have several tools for each of these
areas. For example, we offer software development kits, or SDKs, for content development, such as:
• The Qualcomm® Adreno™ SDK is used for graphics and compute development.
• The FastCV™ software development kit includes a mobile-optimized computer vision library that offers the most
frequently used vision processing functions.
• The Qualcomm® Hexagon™ SDK gives access to the DSP, where developers can take advantage of the real-time, efficient
signal processing for tasks like audio, computer vision, and sensor fusion.
QTI also offers device optimization tools that are used primarily by OEMs to fully tune devices. These tools are necessary for
system level optimization and end-to-end solutions, such as color management as described earlier.
Development devices with real silicon are very important for content creation and device optimization. Developers typically use
the Mobile Development Platform (MDP) or a commercially available device powered by a Snapdragon processor to see how
applications run on real hardware. IHVs often use the DragonBoard™ development kit for peripheral bring up and optimization.
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6 Conclusion
Consumers want their everyday experiences to be more immersive. Full immersion can only be achieved by simultaneously
focusing on the broader dimensions of visual quality, sound quality, and intuitive interactions. To meet the performance
requirements necessary for next generation immersive experiences while staying within the power and thermal constraints of
mobile devices, the right approach is necessary. The optimal way to enhance these broader dimensions requires taking an end-to-
end approach, utilizing heterogeneous computing, and apply cognitive technologies.
Qualcomm Technologies is uniquely positioned to enhance the broader dimensions of immersive experiences by taking the
optimal approach. We custom design specialized engines across the SoC and offer comprehensive ecosystem support. Enabling
the next generation of immersive experiences on mobile devices is yet another example of how Qualcomm Technologies is once
again re-inventing the mobile world we live in.
To get most updated information about Immersive Experiences, please visit: www.qualcomm.com/immersive