The smart solution
30 May 2007
David Robson discovers that blossoming popularity of smart cameras has opened new applications in bottling and canning
Matthew Dale explores vision solutions for code reading and inspection in pharmaceutical production
April/May 2007
Q&A
30 May 2007
Michael Engel, founder and CEO, Vision Components
Caught in the heat of the moment
30 May 2007
David Robson investigates how the increased threat of terrorism has forced the development of more demanding security solutions
The standards maze
30 May 2007
David Robson negotiates his way through the existing and proposed standards and protocols affecting the vision industry
Optimised for applications
30 May 2007
e2v has developed a camera portfolio that mixes standard models with application-specific products, as John Murphy discovers
Events
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MVTec’s Halcon software library includes a deep learning OCR tool with pre-trained fonts from a wide range of industries. Credit: MVTec
Engineers at KYB in front of a pick-and-place solution for handling steel metal cylinders. Credit: Pickit
Car manufacturing has been hit hard by Covid-19, but the need for automation on production lines has not diminished, as Greg Blackman finds out
A point cloud of a National Research Council Canada artefact superimposed on a CAD model. Credit: NIST
How do you choose a 3D vision system for a robot cell? Geraldine Cheok and Kamel Saidi at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA discuss an initiative to define standards for industrial 3D imaging
SWIR imaging can show bruising in fruit that wouldn't be evident with a visible camera. Credit: Sony
Edmund Optics’s Thomas Armspach-Young and Boris Lange consider the optics needed to get the best out of Sony's new short-wave infrared image sensors
What kind of economic development do you expect during and after this crisis?
Findings from a two-part survey, conducted by the European Machine Vision Association, on the effects the Covid-19 pandemic could have on the machine vision industry
Credit: Drag&bot
Christoph Hellmann Santos, of the ROS Industrial Consortium Europe and Fraunhofer IPA, explains why more industrial users are now building robots through the open source software platform, Robot Operating System
