August/September 2020

MVTec’s Halcon software library includes a deep learning OCR tool with pre-trained fonts from a wide range of industries. Credit: MVTec

Code critical

Matthew Dale explores vision solutions for code reading and inspection in pharmaceutical production

Engineers at KYB in front of a pick-and-place solution for handling steel metal cylinders. Credit: Pickit

Green light for automation

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

Robotics to benefit from 3D vision standard

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

Optics design challenge for SWIR

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

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