Dan McCarthy, contributing editor for the Association for Advancing Automation in the US, reports on training programmes available for the modern machine vision engineer
Editor's picks
Following speaking at Embedded Vision Europe, Pierre Gutierrez, lead machine learning researcher at Scortex, writes about the challenges of deploying deep learning on the factory floor
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News
12 December 2019
Coffee bean supplier, Miko Coffee, has installed an optical sorting machine to reduce the amount of foreign material in its beans
06 December 2019
Cobey McGinnis at the University of North Carolina Charlotte has been recognised with the Norman Edmund Inspiration Award for work on a single-pixel hyperspectral camera
06 December 2019
Flir Systems has made a strategic investment in Providence Photonics, a provider of software used to quantify gas emissions
Heart-shaped flow lines are formed in the flow cytometry setup. Copyright Zellmechanik Dresden
21 November 2019
Scientists at the Dresden University of Technology have developed a high-speed imaging technique able to analyse cell samples 10,000 times faster than conventional methods
19 November 2019
A project to improve vocational learning through an interactive, imaging-based workstation is underway in Germany, coordinated by Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Dr Jonathan Taylor, University of Glasgow
15 November 2019
A time-lapse 3D video of a zebrafish heart growing over a day has been captured for the first time by a new microscope imaging technique
13 November 2019
A centre of hyperspectral and remote sensing has been set up by Headwall and high-precision agriculture firm Geo-Konzept
Analysis & opinion
12 December 2019
A year before the Vision 2020 trade fair, Florian Niethammer, at Messe Stuttgart, assesses the changes taking place in the machine vision market
10 December 2019
How do users choose the best lens for an imaging system? The answer is Modulation Transfer Functions, Edmund Optics’ Dr Boris Lange explained in our latest webcast
09 December 2019
Dan McCarthy, contributing editor for the Association for Advancing Automation in the US, reports on training programmes available for the modern machine vision engineer
Features
22 November 2019
Matthew Dale explores Industry 4.0 and machine vision’s role in the connected factories of the future
Surface-based matching in Halcon, from MVTec Software
22 November 2019
Greg Blackman looks at the latest techniques to capture and analyse 3D image data
22 November 2019
Keely Portway finds out how vision is being used to gather data about consumers
The preferred connector for version 2.0 is the micro-BNC. Credit: Active Silicon
22 November 2019
Chris Beynon, Active Silicon’s CTO and technical chair for the CoaXPress standard, gives an update on what’s new in v2.0
Webcasts
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
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
White papers
02 December 2019
Learn what kinds of inspection become possible with computational imaging. Includes a detailed overview of CI techniques used in machine vision and the components needed, and six application examples.
17 September 2019
APS-C format sensors provide higher resolution and performance without having to go full frame. They promise relatively compact and affordable high resolution systems. To realise the full potential of a sensor like this, however, requires the right lens.
01 July 2019
An overview of SWIR technology and principals. Contains examples and suggestions for practical implementation of SWIR imaging in machine vision systems.
Press Releases
At CES 2020, Artilux will unveil its Explore Series, a wide spectrum 3D time-of-flight sensor based on germanium-on-silicon photonic innovation
Edmund Optics has released near infrared aspheric lenses and Techspec LS series line scan lenses
Teledyne Dalsa is pleased to announce its newest smart system, Vicore
Matrox Imaging has released the Matrox 4Sight XV6, an expandable vision controller designed to handle intensive vision applications on the factory floor
OmniVision Technologies has announced the first two members of its new automotive image sensor platform: the 8 megapixel, front-view OX08A and OX08B
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The Basler Blaze offers VGA resolution, a GigE interface and precision via Sony’s DepthSense sensor technology
Sick has made its Visionary T 3D snapshot camera programmable, so it can run user-specific image processing applications developed in its AppSpace software development ecosystem
Latest issue
Matthew Dale explores Industry 4.0 and machine vision’s role in the connected factories of the future
Surface-based matching in Halcon, from MVTec Software
Greg Blackman looks at the latest techniques to capture and analyse 3D image data
Keely Portway finds out how vision is being used to gather data about consumers
The preferred connector for version 2.0 is the micro-BNC. Credit: Active Silicon
Chris Beynon, Active Silicon’s CTO and technical chair for the CoaXPress standard, gives an update on what’s new in v2.0
Greg Blackman reports on new hyperspectral technology presented at the Photonex show in the UK, and how the imaging technique is being used for forestry and food sorting
