The organiser of Photonex, Xmark Media, has been bought by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics
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The UK is up to 20 per cent less productive than its major competitor countries because it is not investing in automation, Mike Wilson at the British Automation and Robot Association said at UKIVA's machine vision conference in Milton Keynes. Greg Blackman reports
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News
Reconstruction of traffic signs with high-resolution colour non-line-of-sight imaging using conventional CMOS cameras sensors
21 June 2019
Carnegie Mellon University showed a non-line-of-sight imaging technique able to compute millimetre- and micrometre-scale shapes of curved objects
21 June 2019
The organiser of Photonex, Xmark Media, has been bought by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics
13 June 2019
Lidar technology from Teledyne Optech has helped create visual effects and 3D spatial data acquisition for HBO’s Game of Thrones
12 June 2019
Trinamix, SWIR Vision Systems and Emberion have been shortlisted within the imaging and sensors category of Laser World of Photonics’ first innovation award
11 June 2019
Researchers at Earlham Institute have developed a machine learning platform to categorise lettuce crops using computer vision and aerial images
10 June 2019
Graphene Flagship partner, Emberion, is launching a VIS-SWIR graphene photodetector at Laser World of Photonics. The technology has been shortlisted for an innovation award at the Munich trade fair
05 June 2019
Sofradir and its subsidiary Ulis have merged to become one company called Lynred to shorten time-to-market of new products
Analysis & opinion
20 June 2019
The UK is up to 20 per cent less productive than its major competitor countries because it is not investing in automation, Mike Wilson at the British Automation and Robot Association said at UKIVA's machine vision conference in Milton Keynes. Greg Blackman reports
Zeiss's Smartzoom 5 digital microscope can remove glare from images by using angular illumination
23 May 2019
Reporting from the EMVA’s business conference in Copenhagen, Greg Blackman discovers how angular illumination and computational imaging can dramatically improve the resolution of a system
Stemmer Imaging has written a GenICam driver for Intel’s RealSense 3D camera
22 May 2019
Greg Blackman reports on the discussion around embedded vision at the European Machine Vision Association’s business conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in mid-May
Features
29 March 2019
Greg Blackman reports from Embedded World, in Nuremberg, where he finds rapid progress in technology for imaging at the edge
29 March 2019
Greg Blackman speaks to Sofradir about its €150 million investment to advance infrared sensor technology
29 March 2019
Ahead of the Control trade fair in May, Greg Blackman speaks to Fraunhofer IPM about three new systems it will present for quality inspection
29 March 2019
Andrew Williams explores the vision solutions for robot bin picking
Webcasts
14 May 2019
The webcast explores the latest equipment for imaging in the shortwave infrared, including a SWIR camera based on a colloidal quantum dot sensor
04 October 2018
Covering infrared and hyperspectral techniques, this webcast looks at how imaging technologies are being used across a wide range of food and beverage applications
04 July 2018
In this webcast, our panel of experts tackle some of the greatest challenges for machine vision integrators when it comes to illumination
White papers
Press Releases
Corning announced today at the Laser World of Photonics trade show that it has delivered its two millionth Corning Varioptic lens for industrial applications
Canon USA has announced two new CMOS sensor products, the 120-megapixel 120MXSI and ultra-high sensitivity 35MMFHDXSMA
OmniVision Technologies has announced the OS04A10, a 2.9-micron pixel image sensor with 4 megapixel resolution, the latest addition to its family of Nyxel near-infrared and ultra-low light sensors
Telops' new TestD system series offers non-destructive testing solutions for the evaluation of components or assemblies in order to detect defects without damaging the materials
3D-Shape, which develops optical 3D sensors for 3D shape measurement, has selected the Mikrotron EoSens 3CL three-megapixel camera for the Korad3D sensor measuring system
Vision Components announces a special offer for students: high-end MIPI camera modules for €39.99 net
Schneider Kreuznach has released the Xenon-Topaz 6.5mm wide-angle lens with 17.6mm image circle, for cameras with 1.1-inch sensors
Events
Shenzhen, China
04 September 2019 to 07 September 2019
ExCeL Exhibition Centre, London
10 September 2019 to 13 September 2019
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Greg Blackman reports on CEA Leti's new image sensor, shown at Photonics West, which contains onboard processing and is able to image at 5,500 frames per second
Ron Low, Framos head of sales Americas and APAC, reports from Framos Tech Days at Photonics West in San Francisco where Sony Japan representatives presented image sensor roadmap updates
Ahead of the Control trade fair in May, Greg Blackman speaks to Fraunhofer IPM about three new systems it will present for quality inspection
Greg Blackman speaks to Sofradir about its €150 million investment to advance infrared sensor technology