April/May 2021

Sowing the seeds of digital tech
Farmers are starting to reap the rewards of robotics and machine vision, as Keely Portway finds out
Power in the community
Open source software has advanced to a point where it’s now a credible option for industrial imaging, Matthew Dale finds
Coaxpress gains fibre and 3D support
Chris Beynon, Active Silicon’s CTO and technical chair of the Coaxpress committee, updates on the Coaxpress standard
Initiative pushes for open embedded camera APIs
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
Edge imaging driven by AI, say Embedded World panel
Greg Blackman reports from the Embedded World show, where industry experts gave insights into vision processing at the edge
The sensor stories behind the Mars Perseverance images
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

Latest issue
A roundup of some of the latest embedded vision technology
Tim Hayes provides a window into how to find defects in glass

Mathias Bochow, GFZ Helmholtz Centre, Potsdam, is working on the Trace project to track marine plastic. Credit: Frank Schweikert, Aldebaran Marine Research & Broadcast (www.aldebaran.org/en/)
Abigail Williams speaks to scientists tracking marine plastic using satellite spectral imagery
Tim Reynolds finds out how vision and AI algorithms are making cities safer
Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision, on how the mechanical engineering sector could be affected by the war in Ukraine
Greg Blackman examines the importance of Tower foundries to machine vision sensor firms, following Intel’s acquisition