Quality assurance inspections are the bread and butter for machine vision. Greg Blackman looks at some classic QA applications using vision
Stephen Mounsey looks at trends in the development of image processing software and libraries, and finds that usability is becoming increasingly important here
Greg Blackman looks at where machine vision is finding uses in agriculture and for grading and sorting foodstuffs
Matrox Imaging has introduced Matrox Orion HD, a graphics and video capture board that supports standard and high definition video inputs and outputs including 1080p/60
Matrox Imaging has launched Matrox Design Assistant 2.3, the latest release of its integrated development environment (IDE) for the Matrox Iris GT smart camera
Matrox Imaging has introduced system host boards (SHB), using the latest Intel Xeon 5600 series processors, for use with its high performance computing platform Matrox Supersight e2
Matrox Imaging's Matrox Iris GT smart camera now comes pre-installed with the Microsoft Windows XP Embedded operating system
Greg Blackman looks at the infiltration of machine vision technology into the traffic sector
Stephen Mounsey discovers that for some applications, 'quite fast' just isn't fast enough
Greg Blackman investigates where embedded systems are being used in vision applications to deliver real-time performance
How will the world feed 10 billion people by 2050 with no new land for agriculture? Greg Blackman speaks to machine builder Bühler about how optical sensing can maximise yield in grain processing
Two robots have been installed at Aalborg University Hospital in Denmark. Credit: Kuka
Keely Portway looks at how robots are automating procedures in hospital testing laboratories, and how imaging underpins this
A setup for photometric stereo imaging in which multiple lights are used to illuminate an object from different directions. Credit: Advanced illumination
Matthew Dale explores the power of computational imaging, all made possible by clever illumination
Credit: Flir Systems
As demand for thermal imaging rises during the coronavirus pandemic, Greg Blackman asks how effective thermal cameras are at screening people for signs of fever
Greg Blackman speaks to Kieran Edge at the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, about new vision projects and the presentation he is to give for UKIVA's vision technology hub, to be broadcast on 14 May
Stemmer Imaging's David Hearn has died after a long illness. Mark Williamson, corporate marketing director at the company, looks back at Hearn’s career
The appetite for vision and automation remains strong, but there is still a lot of uncertainty at the present time, were the views of the heads of the AIA, EMVA, VDMA Machine Vision, and UKIVA in a webinar
Chinese hospitals have ordered 2,000 UVD robots from Blue Ocean Robotics since the start of the pandemic. Credit: Blue Ocean Robotics
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of robotics and automation in many areas of manufacturing and society, according to CEOs of robotic firms in a webinar run by A3
