Editor's picks

Who will be the next big thing in photonics? Nominate your top innovators for the Photonics100 2024 now!

Luca Verre, Co-founder and CEO of Prophesee, as well as a Photonics100 honoree, highlights how event-based vision is set to revolutionise mobile photography

Luca Verre, Co-founder and CEO of Prophesee, as well as a Photonics100 honoree, highlights how event-based vision is set to revolutionise mobile photography

Left: A semiconductor wafer shown to be opaque to white visible light. Right: the wafer is mostly transparent to SWIR light at a wavelength of 1,200nm, making it a suitable wavelength for semiconductor inspection.

Hunting defects in the soon-to-be trillion-dollar semiconductor industry is big business. Anita Chandran explores the latest wafer inspection technology

News

The newly discovered polymer can be moulded into a variety of lenses with exceptional infrared transparency (Image: Tonkin et al.)

08 June 2023

Australian researchers have discovered a low-cost polymer with “the highest long-wave infrared transparency ever reported for a plastic"

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The hyperspectral data from Pixxel's satellite constellation will be used to reveal key data about the health of the planet (Image: EPFL)

05 June 2023

Pixxel is looking to deploy the world’s first and highest-resolution hyperspectral satellite constellation

Using artificial intelligence and optical measurement technology, SURFinpro detects, classifies, and visualises defects in real time during production

05 June 2023

Researchers at Fraunhofer IWS have developed a solution that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and optical measurement technology to identify defects in real-time

Alexander Braun, Professor of Physics at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf

31 May 2023

Imaging and Machine Vision Europe talks to previous honoree of The Photonics100 Alexander Braun, Professor of Physics at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf

Around 1,300 exhibitors and 30,000 attendees are expected at the Laser World of Photonics

26 May 2023

What to expect at The Laser World of Photonics, Automatica, UKIVA Machine Vision Conference and Automate UK, all of which are set to take place next month

The Innovation Award will be presented at the Laser World of Photonics in Munich next month, in partnership with Europa Science

23 May 2023

Imaging and Machine Vision Europe offers a sneak preview of this year’s shortlist for the Innovation Award that will be presented at the Laser World of Photonics in June

16 May 2023

To mark this year's International Day of Light, we highlight some of the latest exciting innovations taking place across the machine vision sector

Analysis & opinion

Analysis & opinion

Luca Verre, Co-founder and CEO of Prophesee, as well as a Photonics100 honoree, highlights how event-based vision is set to revolutionise mobile photography

06 April 2023

Luca Verre, Co-founder and CEO of Prophesee, as well as a Photonics100 honoree, highlights how event-based vision is set to revolutionise mobile photography

Stephen Su shares how Arm’s Cortex-M85 processor and software ecosystem can be leveraged to overcome the constraints of microcontroller unit platforms

16 March 2023

Stephen Su shares how Arm’s Cortex-M85 processor and software ecosystem can be leveraged to overcome the constraints of microcontroller unit platforms

Maharajan Veerabahu, co-founder at E-Con Systems, shares the industries in which embedded vision and AI integration shows great promise

15 March 2023

Maharajan Veerabahu, co-founder at E-Con Systems, shares the industries in which embedded vision and AI integration shows great promise

Features

Features

Automation is the only way for e-commerce and logistics firms to fulfil orders since the dramatic uptick in online shopping brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic

12 April 2023

Facing new pressures and demands, logistics operations are calling for adaptable machine vision solutions to drive efficiency, discovers Benjamin Skuse

Left: A semiconductor wafer shown to be opaque to white visible light. Right: the wafer is mostly transparent to SWIR light at a wavelength of 1,200nm, making it a suitable wavelength for semiconductor inspection.

06 April 2023

Hunting defects in the soon-to-be trillion-dollar semiconductor industry is big business. Anita Chandran explores the latest wafer inspection technology

14 February 2023

Advances in sensors that capture images like real eyes, plus in the software and hardware to process them, are bringing a paradigm shift in imaging, finds Andrei Mihai

White papers

Discover the power of silhouetting illumination as a technique by reading this informative White Paper.

A proposal to break the speed ceiling of GigE Vision in a standardised and reliable way to meet the next generation of sensor sizes and speeds.

This White Paper details why data is the core of any deep learning-based application, and that the tools for managing data and working with the deep learning algorithm are paramount to obtaining good results.

Webcasts

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In this webinar, the latest high-speed GigE products were discussed - moving to 25GigE and beyond - and how the user can best take advantage of this technology

Join us for this in-depth webcast, with Automation Technology that explores the next generation of 3D laser triangulation sensors.

An exclusive preview of the five shortlisted entrants for this year’s coveted Vision Award

Press releases

06 February 2023

The new NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB system-on-module (SoM) will be added to Gidel’s FantoVision range of hi-bandwidth compact computers for vision on the edge

06 February 2023

The highlight will be the FPGA-based hardware accelerator VC Power SoM, which completes complex image processing calculations

03 February 2023

More than 35 experienced application engineers are now available to provide support to the firm's customers

31 January 2023

The lens enables a nuclear fuel assembly to be viewed 13m away from the lens and through 10m of water

27 January 2023

AMD's adaptive computing technology is powering mobility supplier Denso Corporation’s next-generation lidar platform

19 January 2023

BitFlow predicts the developments that will help shape machine vision in 2023

19 December 2022

Co-located with established industrial vision conference, MVC, Automation UK will highlight the latest industrial products and services, robots, robotic systems, systems integration, automation control parts and systems, sensors and machine safety

Tech Focus

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A roundup of some of the latest cameras, modules and other embedded vision technology

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A look at the commercial lens and optics offerings for imaging

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A GigE Vision round-up with a look at some of the latest technology

Viewpoint

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A new automated approach is helping engineers in vision technology and forensics to identify rare traces, which can be essential in solving a crime

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Deep learning has helped to make great strides in machine vision technology, but there are additional data-centric tools that can help new applications come to life. Find out more...

Unispectral’s solutions allow for a smaller, lower-cost system that can be used in any application for which hyperspectral imaging is desired. Credit: Unispectral

Reducing the cost and size of hyperspectral cameras is opening up many more applications, as Keely Portway finds out