MVTec Software was a sponsor of the Smart Green Island Makeathon in Las Palmas on Gran Canaria. The competition saw 270 contestants from 70 universities develop prototypes for smart, green, and innovative products
Basler's embedded vision development kit, which won an Embedded World award, along with numerous other vision technology for embedded processing, was on display during the Embedded World trade fair at the end of February in Nuremberg, Germany
MVTec Software (4-203) will focus on its latest software releases, Halcon 18.11 and Merlic 4, when it exhibits at the trade fair
MVTec Software will issue its new Merlic 4 software release on February 15
MVTec Software has appointed Sonja Schick as Merlic product manager and Martin Krumey as MVTec's vice president sales
Deep learning was in force at the Vision trade fair in Stuttgart at the beginning of November. Greg Blackman reports from the show
Machine vision technology is improving quality control in automotive manufacturing, writes Andrew Williams
Andrew Williams asks how manufacturers can make better use of their machine vision data
Professor Dr Carsten Steger, director of research at Munich-based MVTec Software, has been elected spokesman of the technical committee of the German Association for Pattern Recognition
MVTec Software (1E72) will introduce Halcon 18.11 and Merlic 4 software releases. Halcon 18.11 includes new deep learning functionality and expanded embedded vision capabilities. The release also provides new functions for developers.
In a live demo, an UR3e robot arm will be programmed to recognise objects in a crate using Halcon 18.11 deep learning matching technologies. Another demo will show MVTec’s standard machine vision software running on three embedded boards connected to cameras that are analysing a fast-moving object.
Limited data is a common problem when training CNNs in industrial imaging applications. Petra Thanner and Daniel Soukup, from the Austrian Institute of Technology, discuss ways of working with CNNs when data is scarce
Matthew Dale explores the high-resolution imaging solutions emerging for inspecting OLEDs and other electronic displays
As car makers install production lines for electric vehicles, Greg Blackman looks at how vision is currently used in their factories
Keely Portway investigates how vision technology is being used in the dental sector, from initial diagnosis, to quality control of prostheses
The UK is up to 20 per cent less productive than its major competitor countries because it is not investing in automation, Mike Wilson at the British Automation and Robot Association said at UKIVA's machine vision conference in Milton Keynes. Greg Blackman reports
