Toni Ventura-Traveset, CEO of DataPixel and president of EMVA
12 June 2012
Matthew Dale explores vision solutions for code reading and inspection in pharmaceutical production
June/July 2012
From East to West
12 June 2012
Warren Clark charts the history of Ximea, an imaging company with roots in Slovakia
Metal heads
12 June 2012
Vision systems are used throughout various metal processing tasks, from pressing aluminium parts to automotive welding all the way to shredding scrap metal, as Rob Coppinger discovers
An extremely good vintage
12 June 2012
Greg Blackman looks at the relatively recent introduction of vision in farming, from measuring vigour in vineyards to grading cherries
Another dimension
12 June 2012
Imaging in 3D is billed as one of the most promising growth areas in machine vision at the moment, but is the hype justified? Greg Blackman finds out
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MVTec’s Halcon software library includes a deep learning OCR tool with pre-trained fonts from a wide range of industries. Credit: MVTec
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
Credit: Drag&bot
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
