Imaging and Machine Vision Europe is once again sponsoring the Vision Award, now in its 15th year, at the Vision Show in Stuttgart. The €5,000 award recognises the best paper delivered during the Industrial Vision days which accompany the show, which will take place from 6-8 November.
Entrants for the award submitted abstracts of their proposed papers by the end of July. The papers usually outline a new product or application, and it’s often a good chance to preview future developments in machine vision technology.
Last year’s winner was Silicon Software, for its VisualApplets software, which eases the programming of FPGA processors. These provide parallel processing for machine vision, which speeds up image processing, and the decision of the Vision Award jury recognised just how important this technology would prove to be.
The jury consists of: Don Braggins, chair of UKIVA; Martin Wäny CEO of Awaiba; Roland Beyer of DaimlerChrysler; and Holger Hofmann, vice president of can and packaging at Isra Vision.
The shortlist of papers includes:
- Austrian Research Center
100kHz colour line scan camera exposure
Christian Zinner - Austrian Research Center
PfeLib – Performance Primitives for Embedded Vision
Raffael Binder - BAP Image Systems GmbH
JPEG2000 process
Peter Bonk - FiberVision GmbH
Caminax from FiberVision
Eckard Eikelmann - Fraunhofer Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung
Process for the rapid and high-precision detection of 3D objects and their position in random arrangement
Martin Stotz - IMS
HDRC Q-PyroCam
Franz Hutter - Isomorphs srl/Dept of Physics, Univ. Udine
Prospects for a physics theory of information
Hans Grassmann - Kappa opto-electronics GmbH
Signal-processing cameras, Kappa camera series DX 4/40S & PS 4/40S
Katrin Vogel - LMI Technologies
Fusing 3D shape and 2D colour
Tracey Loslo - Midwest Optical Systems
TBC
Jason Dougherty - OBE Ohnmacht and Baumgärtner GmbH & Co. KG
Trevista
Frank Schröder - Pi4_robotics GmbH
PSPI Inline inspection systems/optical 3D measurement systems
Matthias Krinke - Pleora Technologies
iPort AutoGev – making GenICam a reality
Geoff MacGillivray - Seldes SA
Cougar vision system
Christian Visée - Sensotech
Arithmetic
Oliver Sidla - Sick IVP AB
IVC-3D refined for easy integration into robotic systems
Anders Murhed - Slomotec/Gsvitec GmbH
Marathon 200 LT high-speed camera system with extended recording times
Frank Gabler - Stemmer Imaging GmbH
Graphics card-based image processing
Peter Stiefenhöfer
