The job cuts are part of steps Cognex is taking to lower expenses because of deteriorating market conditions. The firm's CEO and chairman will waive their salaries, and the company’s board of directors have waived their cash fees for the remainder of the year
Editor's picks
Organisers of Laser World of Photonics China have confirmed the show will take place from 3 to 5 July in Shanghai. It will be the first physical event in the machine vision calendar held during the coronavirus pandemic
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and ASTM Committee E57 have released proceedings on a workshop to define the performance of 3D imaging systems for robots in manufacturing
News
02 June 2020
Isra Vision's revenue fell nine per cent to €64.6m over the first half of its financial year, with impacts from Covid-19 in Asia from January, and in America and Europe towards the end of the second quarter
29 May 2020
The job cuts are part of steps Cognex is taking to lower expenses because of deteriorating market conditions. The firm's CEO and chairman will waive their salaries, and the company’s board of directors have waived their cash fees for the remainder of the year
Credit: The Rijksmuseum
27 May 2020
The composite picture of The Night Watch, made of 528 exposures stitched together digitally, makes it possible to zoom in on individual brushstrokes and even particles of pigment in the painting
26 May 2020
Organisers of Laser World of Photonics China have confirmed the show will take place from 3 to 5 July in Shanghai. It will be the first physical event in the machine vision calendar held during the coronavirus pandemic
26 May 2020
Biotech firm AIinnoBio HK, has invested in Newsight Imaging's spectrometer-on-chip solution to develop an at-home virus detection device
19 May 2020
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and ASTM Committee E57 have released proceedings on a workshop to define the performance of 3D imaging systems for robots in manufacturing
Members of the Teledyne e2v CCD fab team
19 May 2020
Teledyne e2v's UK CCD fabrication site expects to have manufactured several times the forecasted annual demand for the CCD77-358 devices by the end of this quarter
Analysis & opinion
Credit: Flir Systems
07 May 2020
As demand for thermal imaging rises during the coronavirus pandemic, Greg Blackman asks how effective thermal cameras are at screening people for signs of fever
05 May 2020
Greg Blackman speaks to Kieran Edge at the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, about new vision projects and the presentation he is to give for UKIVA's vision technology hub, to be broadcast on 14 May
05 May 2020
Stemmer Imaging's David Hearn has died after a long illness. Mark Williamson, corporate marketing director at the company, looks back at Hearn’s career
Features
The panel discussion at the Embedded World trade fair
15 April 2020
Matthew Dale looks at what it will take to increase the adoption of embedded vision
InGaAs and event-based sensors still rely on silicon CMOS readout ICs
15 April 2020
Greg Blackman explores the work being done on InGaAs sensors, along with other types of novel sensor that could find their way into the machine vision market
09 April 2020
Oliver Fähnle, of Fisba, says optimising optical systems relies on communities in the supply chain talking to one another
The Harvesters (1565), by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
24 February 2020
Greg Blackman speaks to Dr Richard Dudley about the National Physical Laboratory’s 3D imaging rig, which will be scanning wheat in crop breeding trials this summer
Webcasts
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
02 October 2019
The EPIC webinar on hyperspectral Imaging will focus on the hyperspectral imaging hardware and its use in applications from microscopes and spectrometers to airborne or satellite sensors
White papers
17 March 2020
Philipp Huber, Hans-Joachim Gelke and Matthias Rosenthal, from the Institute of Embedded Systems at Zurich University of Applied Sciences, describe a method for direct data transfer between a GPU and FPGA for real-time imaging
13 March 2020
When optical designers attempt to compare the performance of optical systems, a commonly used measure is modulation transfer function. In order to understand the significance of MTF, consider some general principles and practical examples for defining MTF including its components, importance, and characterisation
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.
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
Glenn Wedgbrow, business development manager at Micro-Epsilon UK, explains how to choose an infrared camera to screen for signs of fever
ATD Electronique as a major distributor of Sony image sensors announces that Sony has developed a cutting edge sensor technology combining visible wavelength and SWIR
Flir Systems announces the A400 and A700 science kits for researchers, engineers, and systems testers
BitFlow has signed a distribution agreement with Itanzi, a core company of Tietech headquartered in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Great River Technology has announced its new PCIe frame grabber, the Velocity XI, which can receive and transmit ARINC 818 video streams at rates up to 10 Gbps
Raptor Photonics, a manufacturer of SWIR, CCD and EMCCD cameras, has announced that Liam Mulholland joined the company as general manager
Advantech has released its GPU edge computing solution with Nvidia T4 GPU NVQual validation: a MIC-770 compact industrial computer. The company has also announced the ROM-5620 SMARC 2.1 module, its first Arm Cortex-A35 based on the NXP i.MX8X processor
Latest issue
The panel discussion at the Embedded World trade fair
Matthew Dale looks at what it will take to increase the adoption of embedded vision
InGaAs and event-based sensors still rely on silicon CMOS readout ICs
Greg Blackman explores the work being done on InGaAs sensors, along with other types of novel sensor that could find their way into the machine vision market
Oliver Fähnle, of Fisba, says optimising optical systems relies on communities in the supply chain talking to one another
Newly elected EMVA president Chris Yates considers what the future might hold for machine vision
Michał Czardybon, CEO of Adaptive Vision, on how to handle data and image annotation when working with deep learning
Raghava Kashyapa, CEO of Indian vision firm Qualitas Technologies, writes about the benefits and challenges of implementing machine vision in the cloud – and what this holds for manufacturing in India
Paul Wilson, managing director of Scorpion Vision, describes what it takes to install a 3D robot vision system in a Chinese foundry
