Cognex expects its revenue to continue to decline in the third quarter 2019, because of lower revenue predicted from consumer electronics and weakness in Europe and Asia
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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
News
The forum will be held at the Palais de la Bourse in Lyon
14 August 2019
Speakers from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon, CEA-Leti, and Hamamatsu Photonics will give keynote presentations at the European Machine Vision Forum, to be held in Lyon, France from 5 to 6 September
13 August 2019
Cognex expects its revenue to continue to decline in the third quarter 2019, because of lower revenue predicted from consumer electronics and weakness in Europe and Asia
Astronaut Edwin Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot, walks on the surface of the Moon. Astronaut Neil Armstrong, commander, took this photograph with a 70mm lunar surface camera. Credit: NASA
23 July 2019
On the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing on 20 July 1969, Zeiss has described how, in less than nine months, it built the camera lens used to capture the iconic images during the Apollo 11 mission
Credit: Science and Harvard SEAS
18 July 2019
Scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a compact snapshot polarisation camera based on diffraction gratings containing nanoscale structures
18 July 2019
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden are using high-speed cameras to study how insects use visual information to control flight
18 July 2019
Embedded system designers now have a reference platform for vision-based development work, thanks to a €4 million Horizon 2020 project called Tulipp, which has recently concluded
Work from quantum imaging hub's first three years was showcased at an event in London on 22 November 2017. Credit: Dan Tsantilis and EPSRC
18 July 2019
The UK quantum enhanced imaging hub, Quantic, has secured £28 million in UK funding to continue development of sensing and imaging equipment using quantum technologies
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
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 demonstrating a high-speed CoaXPress-Nvidia embedded imaging system at the recent Laser World of Photonics show in Munich, Germany
Sundance Multiprocessor Technology has launched the Sundance VCS-1, a small, high performance, low power and lightweight embedded processor platform designed specifically for precision robotics incorporating complex, real-time vision, control and sensor applications
Pixelink has released 20MP high quantum efficiency USB 3.0 camera models incorporating the Sony IMX183 CMOS rolling shutter sensor
Navitar, a manufacturer of imaging and projection optics, is pleased to announce its Rochester, New York facility has been awarded ISO 9001:2015 certification
Framos has developed an industrial grade version of Intel’s RealSense Suite to provide Gigabit Ethernet connectivity and an IP66 rated housing
Camera manufacturer Basler is expanding its embedded vision solution portfolio with products that are compatible with NXP's i.MX 8 applications processors
Mikrotron has launched the EoSens 4Fiber camera with MTP fibre camera-to-computer interface
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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