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Xcitex in the News
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| 05/15/07 |
Next ProAnalyst Fundamental Skills training class dates announced |
| 05/07/07 |
New online forums launched |
| 05/02/07 |
Xcitex opens California sales and support office |
| 04/21/07 |
Xcitex products now Vista compatible |
| 11/15/06 |
Xcitex donates ProAnalyst for prostheses
research |
| 10/27/06 |
UC Berkeley Poly-PEDAL Lab selects ProAnalyst® for
biomechanical motion analysis |
| 09/08/06 |
Support for Cine (.CIN) file format added to ProAnalyst |
| 07/20/06 |
MiDAS 4.0 released for beta testing |
| 06/26/06 |
Xcitex software prominently featured in Vision System
Design article |
05/01/06
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Xcitex engineers win 2006 Emmy Award for Innovative
Technical Achievement |
| 04/16/06 |
Fastec Imaging to bundle MiDAS 4.0 |
| 03/15/06 |
US Army Test Center selects ProAnalyst |
| 03/01/06 |
Xcitex introduces affordable 3-D tracking and motion
analysis package |
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Next
ProAnalyst Fundamental Skills Training Course Announced
May 15, 2007
The next ProAnalyst Fundamental Skills training course
will be held at the Hotel @MIT in Cambridge, MA on September
24 and 25, 2007. This very popular course teaches
attendees the fundamental concepts analyzing motion from
video using all the features of ProAnalyst through comprehensive
presentations. Ideal for the new user or the user
who wants a refresher on ProAnalyst software, this course
is taught by the Xcitex engineers who developed the
product, using 'real-life' examples
often provided by the students themselves.
For more information and a course syllabus,
visit the Xcitex Training Center.
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New Online Forums Launched
May 7, 2007
Xcitex announced the launch of our new online forums
at www.xcitex.com/forums.
The online forums will allow users of Xcitex products
to browse general
FAQ and technical support threads for all Xcitex products.
In addition, registered users can directly post support
questions or community related news to the forum of interest.
The new online forums are open to all users.
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Xcitex Opens
California Office
May 2, 2007
Xcitex announces the opening of a new California office
for sales and technical support of Xcitex products. Located
in Simi Valley just north of Los Angeles, the office
is strategically situated to provide regionalized pre-sales
and post-sales
support
to the Xcitex dealership channel and to end users in
the western United States.
The new office is staffed with product and application
engineers.
Peter Carellas, President of Xcitex, explains, "The
new regional office provides Xcitex with the opportunity
to conduct on-demand product demonstrations and
regionalized training for our end users, which furthers
our commitment
to quality of service from the first contact to after-sale
support."
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Xcitex
Products now Vista Compatible
April 21, 2007
For xcitex.com publication only
Xcitex engineers today have completed testing on all MiDAS 4.0 and
ProAnalyst products for new Windows Vista O/S compatibility.
MiDAS 4.0 Express, MiDAS 4.0 Standard and MiDAS 4.0 Full
Editiions were designed with new .NET/DirectShow technology,
so full Vista compatibility has been confirmed. All
ProAnalyst Editions, including 3-D and Flight Path Editions,
have been tested for compatibility. Re-saving AVI
movie files is not possible at this time with ProAnalyst
products due to a known bug within Vista regarding
saving AVI files. Until Microsoft fixes this bug within
Vista, Xcitex is advising users expriencing
this problem to save images as sequences of
bitmaps, jpegs or tiffs.
As always, updates to Xcitex products are available
for free download from our
Download Center. All Xcitex end users are
eligible for a free Vista-compatible update, and
Xcitex does not require maintenance contracts or charge
hidden service fees.
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Xcitex
Donates ProAnalyst for Prostheses Research
November 15, 2006
Xcitex has donated ProAnalyst Professional Edition to
the
LeTourneau Engineering Global Solutions (LEGS) initiative. The mission of the
LEGS initiative
is to design, create, and test high-quality lower extremity
artificial limbs (prostheses) for patients across the
under-developed world.
Since it began in
2004, the LEGS Team has traveled to Kenya and Bangladesh.
The hope is one day to enable the establishment of multiple
training hubs across the continents of Africa, Asia and
South America, where its prosthetic can easily be manufactured
and fitted and where amputees can receive rehabilitation
at the same time.
Xcitex's donation of ProAnalyst adds significant
capabilities to the LeTourneau University's Biomechanics
Research
Laboratory, which
is equipped with a state-of-the-art
motion
analysis system
for detailed gait analysis. Quantitative biomechanical
analysis is critical in the design, testing, and implementation
of sophisticated and economical prosthetic devices. Project
Director Dr.
Roger Gonzalez says, "My
desire is to assist medical relief agencies with the
engineering
services needed to overcome some of their most pressing
prosthetic and orthotic needs. We will provide biomechanical
engineering assistance that is not only affordable, but
scientifically well-grounded." Xcitex is fortunate
to be a contributor to this charitable project,
whose plans for 2007 include work in Bangladesh and
Sierra Leone.
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UC
Berkeley Poly-PEDAL Lab Selects ProAnalyst for Biomechanical
Motion Analysis
October 27, 2006
For xcitex.com publication only
The UC Berkeley Poly-PEDAL Lab, led by Professor Robert
Full, has selected ProAnalyst software for its research
in comparative physiology and biomechanics. Professor
Full, a co-founder of Berkeley's Center for Integrative
Biomechanics in Education and Research (CIBER), and Thomas
Libby, the CIBER staff technical director, evaluated
and selected the software for the lab, which studies
arthropod, amphibian, and reptilian locomotion to quantify
the mechanics of muscular and skeletal movement. The
markerless feature tracking capabilities of ProAnalyst
are ideal for the live animal research carried out in
the Poly-PEDAL Lab.
By integrating biology with computer science and engineering,
the Poly-PEDAL team works towards simulating animal movement
from the nervous system through muscles to limb and body
movements. Professor Full's selection of ProAnalyst 3-D
Professional for motion analysis rounds out a state-of-the-art
facility that includes equipment for physiological, biochemical,
and biomechanical study. Diverse applications of the
research include robotics, animatronics, and animation.
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Support
for Cine (.CIN) file format added to ProAnalyst
September 8, 2006
For xcitex.com publication only
Xcitex engineers today released the newest version of ProAnalyst
that will support Cine (.CIN) file formats produced by
the Phantom brand high speed cameras from Vision Research
Corporation. Videos produced by Phantom cameras are stored
natively in CIN format, a proprietary file format based
on Vision Research compression algorithms, resulting in
smaller file sizes. All ProAnalyst editions (Lite, Professional
and 3-D Professional) will now allow users to simply open
the CIN files without conversion to traditional AVI format.
In addition to CIN, ProAnalyst supports most major movie
file formats, including AVI, AVI 2.0, MOV, and MPG. In
addition, ProAnalyst supports still image sequences based
on JPG, TIFF, BMP, and other formats. The new version
of ProAnalyst is a free update for all registered ProAnalyst
users, and can be downloaded from the Download Center
at www.xcitex.com.
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MiDAS
4.0 Released for Beta Testing
July 20, 2006
For xcitex.com publication only
Xcitex engineers today unveiled the new MiDAS 4.0 to a
select group of worldwide dealers at a regional meeting.
The two-day session was used to gauge user comfort with
the new interface features and to solicit opinions on the
new features of MiDAS 4.0. Subsequent to the meeting, Xcitex
product engineers announced that MiDAS 4.0 -- the newest
edition of MiDAS software -- would be distributed to a
small group of beta testers for more evaluation and feedback.
The beta test process is designed to improve the user experience
and to identify installation and usage bugs in advance
of the official release. The official release timetable
for MiDAS 4.0 will be determined following review of the
first set of beta user feedback.
The Standard and Express editions of MiDAS 4.0 will be
released in advance of the Full Edition to assure adequate
testing is performed on the synchronized data acquisition
features.
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Xcitex
Software Prominently Featured in Vision System Design
Article
June 26, 2006
For general distribution, web and print publication
ProAnalyst software from Xcitex was prominently featured
in the July issue of Vision Systems Design, a monthly
periodical for machine vision and camera engineers. The
article, written by editor C. G. Masi, highlights how
ProAnalyst is extensively used at Easton Sports (Van
Nuys, CA) to analyze baseball bats.
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Xcitex
Engineers Win 2006 Sports Emmy Award for Innovative
Technical Achievement
May 1, 2006
For general distribution, web and print publication
New York, NY – Four Xcitex engineers -- Brian Anthony,
Peter Carellas, Jesse Hong and Alex Shopov -- were awarded
the the George Wensel Outstanding Innovative Technical
Achievement Award for their work with CBS Sports' golf
broadcasts. The award, granted to CBS for their SwingVision
program segment, recognizes outstanding achievement by
individuals and programs broadcast throughout the 2005
calendar year.
The Emmy Awards were announced by the National Academy
of Television Arts & Sciences at a special ceremony
at Frederick P. Rose Hall, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center
in New York City. More than 1,100 leading sports broadcasters,
athletes and executives attended the starstudded ceremony.
The Sports Emmy Award recipients were chosen by a Blue
Ribbon Panel of their peers from over 700 entries in
28 categories.
SwingVision from Tech Imaging Services uses high-speed
cameras from Photron that shoot at 12,500 frames per
second (over 400x faster than normal cameras) to capture
unique views of golfers' swings, including close up views
of the ball impact. Xcitex provided StrikeForce technology
to automatically extract and analyze data from the SwingVision
cameras to compute the ball speed, club speed, ball spin
rate, launch angle and other parameters, which are then
overlaid onto the video signal. In addition, Xcitex engineers
provided on-demand, creative on-screen displays of the
measured data, including color-coded swing planes and
club-head tracking paths.
Xcitex StrikeForce technology is used in the broadcast
industry and in the design of specialized measurement
systems for athletes and sports equipment manufacturers.
The 2005 RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship, aired
on ESPN and ESPN2 in December, also featured StrikeForce
analysis of golfer performance.
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US
Army Test Center Selects ProAnalyst
March 15, 2006
For xcitex.com publication
Aberdeen Test Center (ATC), the US Army's flagship and
most diverse test range, has selected ProAnalyst as their
standard motion analysis software package. After an extensive
review of various analytical packages, the selection committee,
comprised of experts in mathematics, physics, IT, and measurement
technologies, communicated to Xcitex President Peter Carellas
that ProAnalyst had been awarded the contractual status
based on its technical superiority and flexibility.
Aberdeen Test Center operates under the guidance of the
Department of Defense to test and evaluate technologies,
components, and large systems for performance, worthiness,
and combat readiness. ATC also conducts testing for federal,
state and local governments, academia, private industry,
and foreign governments.
ATC is one the most advanced military test facilities with
comprehensive test, analysis, data reduction and presentation
abilities. ATC is the DOD's lead test center for automotive,
manned and unmanned ground vehicles, and live fire munitions
testing. In addition, ATC provides maritime testing and
firepower/war fighter analysis.
Mark Stern, head of ATC's instrumentation group, awarded
the first contracts to Xcitex for multiple ProAnalyst Professional
and ProAnalyst 3-D Flight Path editions in March 2006.
Follow-on orders have been subsequently placed.
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Fastec
Imaging to Bundle MiDAS 4.0 Express Edition
April 16, 2006
For general distribution, web and print publication
Fastec Imaging of San Diego, California has signed a letter
of intent to purchase an undisclosed number of MiDAS 4.0
Express Edition licenses for bundling with shipments of
each new camera. MiDAS 4.0 Express is the basic, starter
edition of the new MiDAS 4.0 line of motion capture and
digital control software from Xcitex.
Fastec Imaging is a worldwide supplier of low-cost, handheld
high-speed motion capture cameras. Fastec's line of cameras
-- including the Troubleshooter, SportsCam and Ranger cameras
-- provide high-speed imaging capability at affordable
prices. Fastec Imaging's markets include factory manufacturing
and maintenance operations, academic and industrial researchers,
military test and instrumentation and sports trainers.
Under terms of the agreement, customers who desire more
software functionality, automation, motion analysis and
synchronization with external data sources can upgrade
from MiDAS 4.0 Express to MiDAS 4.0 Standard and Full editions
by contacting Xcitex directly.
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Xcitex
Introduces Affordable 3-D Tracking and Motion Analysis
Package
March 1, 2006
For general distribution, web and print publication
Xcitex Inc. announced today the release of a new edition
of its heralded ProAnalyst line of software products for
motion analysis from video. ProAnalyst 3-D Professional
Edition provides the ability to automatically extract and
analyze motion of objects in 3-D from stereo cameras.
Peter Carellas, President of Xcitex, commented that, "ProAnalyst
3-D is the first true 3-dimensional motion analysis product
for engineers and scientists that is both applicable to
a large cross-section of the analytic community and affordable.
Traditional packages -- far less featured and typically
targeted at one specific industry such as ballistics or
kinetics -- have cost between $20,000 and $50,000. We have
again reset the feature-performance/price bar and stayed
true to our strategy of bringing to market powerful, modern
software for today's generation of motion analysis engineers"
ProAnalyst 3-D Professional is built on the successful
ProAnalyst Professional foundation. The 3-D Professional
edition includes all the features of the current 2-D Professional
edition. Dr. Jesse Hong, Director of Analytical Products
at Xcitex noted that, "the correspondence of multiple cameras
studying the some motion is done after the initial analysis
of each camera in 2-dimensional space. This way, users
need only learn one tracking and analysis technique, then
build the 3-D visualization as a final step. Our automated
scene calibration technique further simplifies the construction
of the 3-D analysis and motion graphs."
ProAnalyst 3-D Professional Edition is available for immediate
shipment.
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