Greg Blackman charts the meteoric rise of Chinese firm Hikvision, one of the top suppliers of video surveillance equipment that has now turned its sights on industrial vision
Matthew Dale investigates a new class of highly-efficient image sensor that’s just starting to find its way onto the commercial market, all based on the principles of biological sight
Greg Blackman explores the latest advances made in scientific CMOS sensors and asks whether CCDs still have a place in life science imaging
Andrew Williams on the uses and current state of hyperspectral imaging, along with the technique’s potential as an industrial inspection tool
Denis Bulgin speaks to Mark Williamson and David Hearn, who both started their own vision companies in the UK 20 years ago and are both now at Stemmer Imaging
Stemmer Imaging’s series of technology days included talks from various lens manufacturers. Here, we round up some of what was discussed at the event
Martin Schwarzbauer, at PCO, and Bernd Jähne, at HCI, Heidelberg University, discuss the need for quasi lossless image data compression from 16-bit images to 8-bit or less
Professor Dr Bernd Jähne at HCI, Heidelberg University, and an EMVA board member, argues that an open lens-camera communication standard would greatly benefit the machine vision community
Isotronic’s VialChecker multi-camera quality control machine. Credit: Isotronic and IDS
Greg Blackman explores quality control measures taken to make the glass bottles filled with vaccines
With logistics experiencing huge growth, Keely Portway considers business opportunities for vision companies in warehouse automation
Using drones could enable visual aircraft inspections in under an hour. Credit: Mainblades
Matthew Dale takes a bird’s eye view of aircraft inspection, where drones equipped with vision are replacing manual checks
A tunable LED light source offers spectral reproduction. Credit: Pro-Lite Technology
Leslie Lyons, business development manager for light metrology at Pro-Lite Technology, says spectral camera calibration needs a spectrally tunable light source
Greg Blackman reports from the Association for Advancing Automation's latest digital show on the advances being made using AI for industrial inspection
