The shortlisted candidates for this year's Vision Award have been released. The Vision Award, a 'prize for applied image processing', is presented each year at the Vision trade fair in Stuttgart (held this year from 8-10 November). Imaging and Machine Vision Europe is once again proud sponsors of the award, which honours outstanding products or processes in machine vision and applied imaging.
The innovations presented by the candidates will be judged by a panel of vision experts comprised of Jens Michael Carstensen of Videometer, Hermann Tropf of Vision Tools, Martin Wäny of Awaiba, Dieter-Josef Walter of Daimler, and Michael Engel of Vision Components.
The winner will be announced at an award ceremony during the conference 'get together' on 8 November. The €5,000 prize money will be presented by Warren Clark, publishing director at Imaging and Machine Vision Europe.
The shortlisted candidates are:
Ximea, 90Gflops smart camera, Max Larin
ProOpt Systemtechnik, Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) for optical measurement of saw blades, Bernd Moser
Microscan Systems, AutoVision – machine vision simplified, Jonathan Ludlow
New Imaging Technologies (NIT), Color Native WDR: High colour fidelity over more than 140dB dynamic range, Christian Bouvier, Yang Ni, Nicolas Baroan
Videor E. Hartig, GigE PowerPlus camera series with freely programmable FPGA, Markus Hold
LMI Technologies, Gocator: An all-in-one smart 3D sensor for easy measurement and control featuring a built-in web server, measurement tools, rich I/O, and an open source SDK, Terry Arden
EVT Eye Vision Technology, High speed 3D point cloud matching with GPU, Michael Beising
Heliotis, High-speed/high-precision 3D sensor with pixel-level signal processing and camera-level surface extraction, Andreas Corliano, Yves Delley, Joël Forchelet, Christian Lotto, Patrick Lambelet, Rudolf Moosburger, Stephan Beer, Peter Seitz, Dino Zardet, Christa Zimmerli
GlobalSensing, InspectOn Sensor – a surface defect detection system based on a neural network memory chip, Thomas Woywod
Festo, Intelligent camera with integrated CoDeSys PLC, Heino Bauer
Notavis, MVNova, a platform for machine vision standardisation, Rob Paffen
Neogramm, NeoImagebox – all-in-one solution for optical documentation in motion, Susi Schnedelbach
Adimec Advanced Image Systems, New ‘real-time buffered imaging pipeline’ camera architecture keeps cost of machine vision equipment down while applying latest high-speed CMOS image sensors, Marcel Dijkema
Basler Vision Technologies, New fast, miniature camera generation with Cmosis sensors, Henning Tiarks
Xenics, Optical Coherence Tomography and NDT with Xenics' Lynx-GigE camera, Patrick Merken
Optomotive, mehatronika, OptoMotive’s innovation: FPGA camera family Velociraptor, Barbara Rakovec Gorkic, Ales Gorkic
Optronis, Optronis high speed 4 Megapixel, 500fps camera using CoaXPress CXP-6, BNC 4x real-time interface at 25Gb/s transfer rate, Dr Bernd Reinke
Pleora Technologies, Pleora eBUS SDK 2.1 with eBUS Universal Pro driver allows vision industry to leverage 10 GigE using off-the-shelf computer hardware, John Phillips
Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, PolKa – a robust, cost-effective, artefact-free solution for the analysis of polarised light, Sean Durkin
Allied Vision Technologies Canada, Precision Time Protocol IEEE1588 with AVT cameras, Paul Kozik
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Real-time stereo vision technology for an intraoral 3D scanner, Martin Humenberger
EVT Eye Vision Technology, Smart camera-based 3D triangulation sensor - EyeScan 3D, Michael Beising
Newnex Technology, The FireNEX-S800, the world’s first 1394 optical repeater, takes 1394 up to 10,000m
Aphesa SPRL, Turn-key EMVA1288 test equipment, Arnaud Darmont
Photonics Laboratory at UCLA, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, World’s fastest camera and its utility to scientific, industrial, and biomedical applications, Keisuke Goda
e2v semiconductors, ELiiXA+, an innovative sensor and camera approach to address very high-end applications, Sébastien Teysseyre
