Farmers are starting to reap the rewards of robotics and machine vision, as Keely Portway finds out
August/September 2013
Cameras for customers
Baumer Optronic has been making market-leading camera solutions since 1997, as Warren Clark discovers
Here comes the sun
Greg Blackman on how infrared and thermal imaging can maximise the efficiency of solar panels
Packaged to perfection
Rob Coppinger finds that consumer packaging doesn't reflect well on imaging technologies
All part of the process
The British Machine Vision Conference is due take place at the beginning of September, an event with machine vision in the title - but, confusingly, focusing on academic algorithm development and computer vision. Greg Blackman asks what industrial image processing can learn from academia

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Open source software has advanced to a point where it’s now a credible option for industrial imaging, Matthew Dale finds
Chris Beynon, Active Silicon’s CTO and technical chair of the Coaxpress committee, updates on the Coaxpress standard
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
Greg Blackman reports from the Embedded World show, where industry experts gave insights into vision processing at the edge
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