3D sensing company, Outsight, has introduced a 3D semantic camera that combines lidar ranging with hyperspectral material analysis. The camera was introduced at the Autosens conference in Brussels
Editor's picks
SVS-Vistek has been bought by TKH Group, which owns Allied Vision, Chromasens, Mikrotron, NET and Tattile
Limited data is a common problem when training CNNs in industrial imaging applications. Petra Thanner and Daniel Soukup, from the Austrian Institute of Technology, discuss ways of working with CNNs when data is scarce
News
18 September 2019
3D sensing company, Outsight, has introduced a 3D semantic camera that combines lidar ranging with hyperspectral material analysis. The camera was introduced at the Autosens conference in Brussels
16 September 2019
OmniVision Technologies will be showing an automotive camera module at the AutoSens conference in Brussels from 17 to 19 September, built using OmniVision’s OX03A1Y image sensor with an Arm Mali-C71 image signal processor
16 September 2019
SVS-Vistek has been bought by TKH Group, which owns Allied Vision, Chromasens, Mikrotron, NET and Tattile
13 September 2019
A hyperspectral imaging system built by US research centre Battelle, using Headwall sensors, has been chosen as a finalist for the Department of Homeland Security’s Opioid Detection Challenge
11 September 2019
Dr Thomas Kessler has announced he will step down as CEO of Jos. Schneider Optische Werke at the end of 2019
Jeffrey Chew, CEO of ADE, and Jean-François Delepau, chairman of Lynred
09 September 2019
Taiwan-based ADE Technology has announced it will integrate infrared detectors from Lynred, formerly Sofradir and Ulis, into a system ADE is developing for monitoring elderly people
09 September 2019
Hamamatsu Photonics claims it is the first company to mass produce a mid-infrared detector that doesn’t use mercury and cadmium, which are restricted under the European Commission’s RoHS directive
Analysis & opinion
26 July 2019
Limited data is a common problem when training CNNs in industrial imaging applications. Petra Thanner and Daniel Soukup, from the Austrian Institute of Technology, discuss ways of working with CNNs when data is scarce
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
Features
26 July 2019
Matthew Dale explores the high-resolution imaging solutions emerging for inspecting OLEDs and other electronic displays
26 July 2019
As car makers install production lines for electric vehicles, Greg Blackman looks at how vision is currently used in their factories
26 July 2019
Keely Portway investigates how vision technology is being used in the dental sector, from initial diagnosis, to quality control of prostheses
26 June 2019
Matthew Dale explores how machine vision integrators are responding to new demands in the pharmaceutical industry
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
17 September 2019
From smartphones to self-driving cars, our world is filled with computers that rely on machine vision to record, observe, and analyse their surroundings. Due to the increasingly demanding performance requirements of these machine vision systems, there is almost always a need for more resolution.
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
Bitflow has partnered with engineering firm One Box Vision in developing the PackFlow 100 per cent print inspection bundle that improves the way the packaging industry inspects materials printed on high-speed web presses
On Semiconductor has introduced the ARX3A0 digital image sensor with 0.3 megapixel resolution in a 1:1 aspect ratio
ATD Electronique is pleased to announce the final programme of its own presentation forum during Measurement World 2019 from 24-26 September 2019 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles
Teledyne Imaging has introduced the newest models in its Genie Nano Camera Link series, the CL M4160 and C4160
Two and three-dimensional data from smart cameras, vision systems and control units with 2D-/3D profile sensors can now be evaluated via a central software platform - uniVision 2.1
Framos AI is launching its FAIM SDK to enable AI powered algorithms optimised for real-time applications
The fourth Stemmer Imaging Machine Vision Technology Forum Tour will begin in Munich on October 8 and 9, 2019 and visit four other European destinations during October and November
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Limited data is a common problem when training CNNs in industrial imaging applications. Petra Thanner and Daniel Soukup, from the Austrian Institute of Technology, discuss ways of working with CNNs when data is scarce
Matthew Dale explores the high-resolution imaging solutions emerging for inspecting OLEDs and other electronic displays
As car makers install production lines for electric vehicles, Greg Blackman looks at how vision is currently used in their factories
Keely Portway investigates how vision technology is being used in the dental sector, from initial diagnosis, to quality control of prostheses
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
