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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
The different requirements of industrial and space imaging have led to distinct sensor development paths that diverge and intersect in interesting ways, as Benjamin Skuse finds out
Clever manipulation of light is allowing researchers to image deeper into tissue to ultimately further our understanding of the brain. Abigail Williams investigates
Automation, lighting regimes, and hyperspectral imaging are unlocking vertical farming’s full potential, finds Benjamin Skuse
There’s a renaissance underway in shortwave infrared imaging as thin-film photodetectors come online. Tim Hayes reports