Rob Coppinger looks at the imaging equipment used on food-processing lines, including hyperspectral systems for classifying fruit and veg, and 3D vision for measuring baked goods
Aqsense (Girona, Spain) has released its 3DExpress product, a 3D pre-processing software package for machine vision applications
Greg Blackman looks at the options for high-throughput image processing, including FPGAs and multicore processors, and finds out what unites development in all software packages is ease of use
Surfaces have a key role, stopping corrosion for one, and Rob Coppinger examines the latest solutions for inspecting this most important of features
Aqsense has released its 3D acquisition and processing wizard. The software tool makes developing 3D inspection applications straightforward without needing any programming skills
Aqsense's library for cloud of points acquisition and manipulation, SAL3D, now supports Mesa's leading 3D time-of-flight (TOF) cameras
Aqsense has released a new version of its SAL3D 3D vision software
Aqsense has released a CAD import tool as a module of the SAL3D library that allows any user to generate a cloud-of-points from a CAD file easily
Aqsense has introduced a new module as part of its SAL3D 3D vision software library. The Area Tool automatically determines the volume of scanned objects at high speeds
Coupling vision with a robot can make for a flexible inspection system. Greg Blackman investigates some areas where robotic systems incorporating imaging are finding a use
Outfield analyses aerial images of orchards using machine learning to predict crop yield
Farmers are starting to reap the rewards of robotics and machine vision, as Keely Portway finds out
Open source software has advanced to a point where it’s now a credible option for industrial imaging, Matthew Dale finds
Active Silicon’s 4xCXP-12 FireBird Coaxpress frame grabber (PCIe Gen3 x8)
Chris Beynon, Active Silicon’s CTO and technical chair of the Coaxpress committee, updates on the Coaxpress standard
Neil Trevett and Chris Yates
The Khronos Group and the EMVA are to explore software standards for embedded vision. Khronos’ Neil Trevett and EMVA’s Chris Yates explain the work
Greg Blackman reports from the Embedded World show, where industry experts gave insights into vision processing at the edge
The first colour image, captured by a CMV20000 sensor, to be sent back by the hazard cameras on the Perseverance rover after its landing on Mars on 18 February. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Greg Blackman speaks to Guy Meynants, formerly of Cmosis, and Paul Jerram, of Teledyne e2v, about the history of the image sensors onboard the Mars rover
