As a new academic year begins, Greg Blackman finds out what students taking image processing courses in two universities have in store
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Géraldine Andrieux, CEO of Blumorpho
Ahead of the Inpho Venture Summit in October, Blumorpho CEO, Géraldine Andrieux, discusses how startups should approach pitching for venture capital funding in these uncertain economic times
Greg Blackman speaks to Simon Beveridge, managing director of UK-based vision integrator Siga Vision, about installing vision systems during Covid-19
News
23 September 2020
The software will help engineers develop event-based vision systems, an imaging method that records changes in a scene rather than capturing an image frame by frame
Florian Niethammer, team director and the project manager responsible for Vision at Messe Stuttgart
14 September 2020
Messe Stuttgart has set a date of 5 to 7 October 2021 for the Vision show, which was cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic. The show will be held in parallel with Motek
03 September 2020
Terahertz imaging company, Tihive, has been awarded €8.6m from the European Innovation Council's Accelerator programme to scale up its industrial inspection technology
01 September 2020
The robotics market in North America is down 18 per cent so far compared to the same period last year
13 August 2020
The company said that shifts in demand, particularly in the areas of sports and entertainment, infrastructure and automotive, had a negative impact
Basler headquarters in Ahrensburg
06 August 2020
Basler recorded sales of €88.9m for the first half of 2020, but has seen a decline in order intake at the end of the second quarter. Meanwhile, Flir's Q2 2020 results show a demand for thermal cameras for fever screening
30 July 2020
Growth in logistics partially offset the weak automotive market year-on-year, and more than offset it on a sequential basis
Analysis & opinion
23 September 2020
As a new academic year begins, Greg Blackman finds out what students taking image processing courses in two universities have in store
Géraldine Andrieux, CEO of Blumorpho
23 September 2020
Ahead of the Inpho Venture Summit in October, Blumorpho CEO, Géraldine Andrieux, discusses how startups should approach pitching for venture capital funding in these uncertain economic times
15 September 2020
Greg Blackman speaks to Simon Beveridge, managing director of UK-based vision integrator Siga Vision, about installing vision systems during Covid-19
Features
MVTec’s Halcon software library includes a deep learning OCR tool with pre-trained fonts from a wide range of industries. Credit: MVTec
03 August 2020
Matthew Dale explores vision solutions for code reading and inspection in pharmaceutical production
03 August 2020
Keely Portway looks at the latest vision technology used to inspect solar cells
Engineers at KYB in front of a pick-and-place solution for handling steel metal cylinders. Credit: Pickit
03 August 2020
Car manufacturing has been hit hard by Covid-19, but the need for automation on production lines has not diminished, as Greg Blackman finds out
04 June 2020
How will the world feed 10 billion people by 2050 with no new land for agriculture? Greg Blackman speaks to machine builder Bühler about how optical sensing can maximise yield in grain processing
Webcasts
21 September 2020
This webcast will cover three case studies of vision used in food production, including hyperspectral inspection of fish and strawberries, and 3D vision to core apples
15 April 2020
Imaging and Machine Vision Europe hosted a live panel discussion featuring the heads of VDMA, EMVA, AIA and UKIVA to discuss vision's response to the Covid 19 crisis
30 October 2019
This webcast, now on-demand, covers an event-based camera for high-speed imaging, multi-shot lighting, and using the MTF of lenses for vision system design
White papers
03 September 2020
Smart Vision Lights’ NanoDrive allows LEDs to be at full power in 500ns or less. NanoDrive can operate in either continuous or OverDrive strobe modes.
03 August 2020
Download this paper to learn more about multispectral imaging solutions in machine vision applications such as food sorting, agriculture, pharmaceutical and medical vision systems, as well as how various camera capabilities can be utilised to meet your multispectral imaging requirements.
14 July 2020
This white paper from Edmund Optics examines a hybrid approach to lens design for when a custom lens optimised for a specific magnification, working distance and sensor is not feasible. Lenses can be designed such that the spacing between elements or groups of elements can be adjusted; fine-tuning an existing design in this way can produce excellent results in less time and at a lower cost than a full custom design.
Viewpoint
Detecting hair in jelly using Pekat Vision's Detector module trained with annotated images
20 April 2020
Czech firm Pekat Vision writes about quality control projects it has solved in pharmaceutical and food inspection, both key markets that need to be kept running during the Covid-19 pandemic
Press Releases
JAI has introduced two new multispectral (RGB + NIR) models in the company's Sweep+ series of prism-based line scan cameras
E-con Systems has launched the Sturdecam20 industrial grade GMSL camera and Sturdecam20_CUXVR camera kit leveraging the capabilities of the Nvidia Jetson edge AI platform
Hamamatsu Photonics completes two new buildings for developing and producing X-ray sources for industrial inspection, among other technology
Precision sensor supplier Micro-Epsilon has developed a new range of white light interferometers for non-contact optical distance and thickness measurement
The second generation of Basler's Blaze 3D time-of-flight cameras has gone into series production. Basler is also presenting highlights in its camera portfolio for medical and life sciences at Analytica in October
Innovations in Optics has introduced the Pattern Blazer, a high-power, LED fixed-pattern projector for structured lighting and stereovision in 3D machine vision
Vision Components will take part in the Embedded Vision Summit from 15 to 25 September
Events
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MVTec’s Halcon software library includes a deep learning OCR tool with pre-trained fonts from a wide range of industries. Credit: MVTec
Matthew Dale explores vision solutions for code reading and inspection in pharmaceutical production
Engineers at KYB in front of a pick-and-place solution for handling steel metal cylinders. Credit: Pickit
Car manufacturing has been hit hard by Covid-19, but the need for automation on production lines has not diminished, as Greg Blackman finds out
A point cloud of a National Research Council Canada artefact superimposed on a CAD model. Credit: NIST
How do you choose a 3D vision system for a robot cell? Geraldine Cheok and Kamel Saidi at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA discuss an initiative to define standards for industrial 3D imaging
SWIR imaging can show bruising in fruit that wouldn't be evident with a visible camera. Credit: Sony
Edmund Optics’s Thomas Armspach-Young and Boris Lange consider the optics needed to get the best out of Sony's new short-wave infrared image sensors
What kind of economic development do you expect during and after this crisis?
Findings from a two-part survey, conducted by the European Machine Vision Association, on the effects the Covid-19 pandemic could have on the machine vision industry
Credit: Drag&bot
Christoph Hellmann Santos, of the ROS Industrial Consortium Europe and Fraunhofer IPA, explains why more industrial users are now building robots through the open source software platform, Robot Operating System
