MVTec’s Halcon software library includes a deep learning OCR tool with pre-trained fonts from a wide range of industries. Credit: MVTec
Matthew Dale explores vision solutions for code reading and inspection in pharmaceutical production
Keely Portway looks at the latest vision technology used to inspect solar cells
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
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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
Unispectral’s solutions allow for a smaller, lower-cost system that can be used in any application for which hyperspectral imaging is desired. Credit: Unispectral
Reducing the cost and size of hyperspectral cameras is opening up many more applications, as Keely Portway finds out
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A GigE Vision round-up with a look at some of the latest technology
Setup of combined hyperspectral and fundus camera at Peter Stalmans’ lab at KU Leuven. Credit: Imec/KU Leuven
Investigations are underway into using hyperspectral imaging to screen for a host of medical conditions, as Abigail Williams finds out
Nerian Vision’s stereo vision cameras incorporate an FPGA for real-time 3D imaging. Credit: Nerian Vision
High-speed 3D cameras were in full force at Vision Stuttgart. Alice Rolandini Jensen explores the technology
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Although open-source software is practically ubiquitous in the IT world, there will likely always be a place for proprietary machine vision offerings, finds Benjamin Skuse
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Mark Williamson, Chairman of the Board of VDMA Machine Vision, at the opening of the Vision trade fair, said the industry had grown by an impressive 16% in Germany in 2021
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Fresh from Embedded World, we speak to Tim Vehling at Mythic on the benefits of AI accelerators for industrial vision
