[4eyes] FW: OpenCV.ai hiring

[Benjamin Nuernberger]

Even more interesting might be that he's involved in allegations of
stealing secrets from Magic Leap:
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/google-backed-magic-leap-alleges-workers-stole-secrets-39435676

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 7:16 AM, Matthew Turk <mturk at cs.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> FYI, interesting email from Gary Bradski (founder of OpenCV, currently
> with Magic Leap) below.
>
>
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> *From:* Gary Bradski [mailto:garybradski at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 11, 2016 3:41 AM
> *To:* Ethan Rublee <rublee at opencv.ai>
> *Subject:* OpenCV.ai hiring
>
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> All (many Bcc'd)
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> *EXEC SUM:*
>
> We are trying to hire up a small team of super coders in vision to make
> the "out of the box" experience of software+camera+compute (smart cameras)
> just work to accelerate the field by making sensing completely
> parameterisable (# of cameras, timing relationships, exposure
> relationships, lens or lenses, all simple to configure and work with). We
> want to step vision up another notch for everyone. But we need damn good
> people/coders, just a few, to do this. Send them to us please! We have lots
> of hardware partners to complement the effort!
>
>
>
> *WHY:*
>
> I've decided to form a for profit vision company around, and in support
> of, OpenCV (library will still be free and open). The reason is to further
> the mission of OpenCV to bring visual intelligence to the world by bringing
> an inexpensive professional development to people along with a pipeline to
> product for us and everyone else. OpenCV will remain free and open with
> better support, the development platform will itself be an open spec.
>
>
>
> *WHO:*
>
> Ethan Rublee, CC'd will be CEO. He was a co-founder of Industrial
> Perception, the robotics company we sold to Google. He's leaving Google X
> to run OpenCV.ai, and is, what is known colloquially as, a super producer.
>
>
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> Gary Bradski is co-founder, a funder, advisor, board member.
>
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> We have a guy, "Jack" in China. You don't know him. He's a vision business
> savvy guy there.
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>
>
> *BACKGROUND:*
>
> Computer vision cameras, drivers and SW involve too much effort to get to
> an effective baseline. The cameras and lenses are too limiting. Time to
> change that.
>
>
>
> *GOAL:*
>
> So, OpenCV.ai is going to open with teams in the US and China with the
> goal of becoming the computer vision platform of choice on which we and
> others will build products.
>
>
>
> *WHAT:*
>
>    - Build an inclusive kernel, Linux+OpenCV+embedded
>    deep+eigen+opencl+opengl, wedded and optimized with "OpenCV Certified"
>    hardware makers (cameras + compute = smart cameras) multi-smart camera
>    development system (for $ale, but cheap), that
>
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>    - Provides great "out of the box" vision experience.
>
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>    - Just works, no other dependencies, great API
>          - calibrates, syncs, phases with other cameras
>          - does geometric vision well
>          - provides lots of baseline functionality
>          - easily ingestes and runs deep nets trained by your favorite
>          deep net engines
>
>
>    - Drives 6 or more cameras per board, dozens of such boards can be put
>       together and will sync, phase control as they are linked together.
>
>
>    - Experiment, print
>
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>    - Smart cameras, linked together are already a super computer.
>       - Develop straight on the camera/camera array. Chrome cast the
>       results to your "computer". When you are done, it is already running on
>       your target platform
>       - Via "OpenCV Certified" relationships with hardware makers, you
>       can just "print off" one or 1000's of products related to what you did on
>       the development boards.
>       - Market place of licensable best of class other algorithms, deep
>       nets.
>
>
>    - Make working with depth cameras, configurations of many cameras and
>    especially working with light fields trivial/common. All those lost
>    lightfield papers of the 90s will come back!
>    - Students will do more interesting research when it is trivial to
>    deploy more interesting vision systems.
>    - OpenCV.ai together with others will build capabilities and products
>    on top of it all.
>
> *QUAL:*
>
> This isn't a call to see which student, yet to find themselves, might
> procure employment. Ethan needs a few people around him who can code and
> hardware hack at his level. His level is high. Extremely so.
>
>
>
> Let Ethan or myself know.
>
>
>
> We, and vision, thank you!
>
>
>
> Gary
>
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