官方新聞：《Khronos to Create New Open Standard for Computer Vision》
官方網頁：http://www.khronos.org/vision
Khronos（建立 OpenGL、OpenCL 的組織）在今年的 SIGGRAPH ASIA 公告，他們開始建立一個開放、跨平台、免授權金的 Computer Vision（電腦視覺）的硬體加速 API 標準，名稱就叫做「Vision」。
這個標準建立的目的，主要是建立「硬體抽象層」（Hardware Abstraction Layer）的標準，希望可以讓 Computer Vision 相關的應用程式、或是更 High level 的函式庫（例如最有名的就是 OpenCV），可以直接透過 vision 來做到硬體加速；基本上，大概就會是像右邊的示意圖的概念了∼
而除了一般桌上電腦的應用外，Khronos 也會著重在越來越普及的行動裝置上，讓更多類型的平台、硬體（CPU、GPU、DSP），都可以使用同樣的標準。
如果這東西真的做出來的話，那對於現在有使用到 OpenCV 的寫程式，或許就有機會不修改程式、直接享受硬體加速的效能提升了吧∼
Design Philosophy：
- provide interoperable acceleration of computer vision algorithms across platforms;
- keep the scope for the 1.0 version tightly focused on areas of computer vision agreed to be appropriate and widely beneficial;
- ensure efficient implementation is possible on a wide variety of computing architectures including CPUs, GPUs and DSPs;
- keep a primary focus on enabling mobile and embedded devices;
- efficiently support a possible wide range of high-level computer vision libraries, not solely the OpenCV higher-level library;
- be usable directly by applications as well as higher level libraries;
- the design of a clean, forward-looking API takes priority over reuse of existing libraries, however existing APIs and libraries should be leveraged where possible to promote rapid adoption and usage.
Deliverables：
- A specification for the CV HAL API;
- Manual pages for the API;
- An Adoption process that defines the criteria for implementation compliance;
- A conformance test suite that tests the operation of an CV HAL implementation;
- A logo and certification mark usage guidelines.
不過，目前這東西還沒正式出來，要等到可以用，要等到 2012 的第四季才會審閱規格草案。下方是目前規劃的 milestone：
- 2011/12/02 – Board meeting vote to establish the temporary working group
- 2012/01 F2F – first working group F2F Meeting
- 2012/04 F2F – agreed SOW sent to Board for approval of full-time working group
- 2012 Q4 – draft spec in review.