Saksham Sharma, Infosys, wins an iPod for the best circle Saksham Sharma, a User Interface Designer at Infosys, was declared the proud winner of a brand-new iPod Shuffle for drawing the best freehand circle at Soliton's stall at 'Startup City', Bangalore. Mr. Sharma was awarded a score of 93 by Spot-ItTM, India's first 'smart camera', on the basis of image processing algorithms that measured the standard deviation of the drawn circle and gave it a weighted score out of a hundred. After being confirmed the winner of the competition, Mr. Sharma let us in on how he managed to beat the hundreds of other professionals who tried their hand at drawing the best circle - "By keeping an imaginary point in mind and trying to maintain a constant radius while drawing around it, you can draw a pretty great circle by hand." Allowing Spot-It to judge the 'perfection' of the circle was the ideal way to explain, in no time at all, the basics of image processing and machine vision to the imaging novice. While manufacturers use the reconfigurable Spot-It system to foolproof their production and assembly lines, a special script was created to decide who would ultimately be the recipient of the iPod shuffle. Interested visitors to the stall were also introduced to Spot-It's simple configuration style user interface that gives the user control over image processing tools like edge detection and blob analysis without the need to learn any programming syntax. Erratic power supply and outages resulted in a slight commotion but these irregularities were quickly corrected and at the end of the day, the grand prize of the iPod shuffle was rightly awarded to the best artist of the day - Mr. Saksham Sharma.

Soliton will be present at 'Startup City' organised by the eminent industry publications, Smart Techie and Silicon India on the 24th of May, 2008, in Bangalore. 'Startup City' aims to introduce entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, professionals and the media to the first generation technology companies that are currently radically changing the environment in Indian business.

Soliton holds the distinction of being one of the few Indian companies that decided to invest in creating products and that too in the highly specialized and competitive field of machine vision. Headquartered in the 'silicon valley' of India, Soliton has steadily been gathering accolades from the global leaders in the two domains, virtual instrumentation and machine vision, that it currently is at the top of in the Indian market.

At Startup City, you will be able to take a sneak peek at the latest machine vision technology at Soliton's booth at the event . Also present at the stall will be Dr. Ganesh Devaraj, CEO and MD of Soliton Technologies

DO YOU WANT TO BE AN ENTREPRENEUR ?

Soliton will also be inviting automation professionals to join the newly instated 'Entrepreneurship in Vision (EinVision)' program that will help you set up and maintain a lucrative business in developing machine vision solutions for Indian industry. Visit our stall at the event, to find out if this could be the right opportunity for you to become an entrepreneur.

More details regarding the EinVision program are available at www.solitontech.com/einvision

WALK AWAY WITH AN IPOD

Don't forget to visit us and see how you too can place your bid for the Ipod shuffle that will be up for grabs during the event.

PS. A steady hand might give you the advantage !

HOW TO GET THERE ?

Startup City will be held at the Nimhans convention centre Bangalore on 24th May 2008.                                              Map

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