Keely Portway looks at the changing relationship between human and robot in industrial environments, and the latest vision innovations involved in bringing them together
In the run up to the Fifa World Cup, Greg Blackman examines how video analysis is used to improve the performance of top athletes
After speaking at AutoSens Detroit on 16 May, Nadav Haas, product manager at Israeli firm Newsight Imaging, gives his opinion on why the company’s CMOS solution is a good fit for lidar sensing in autonomous driving
Data is now a fiercely guarded asset for most companies and, as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, Framos’ Dr Christopher Scheubel discusses potential new business models based on 3D vision data, following a talk he gave at the Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara this week
Dr Christos Theoharatos, chief scientific officer at Irida Labs, describes an imaging system for monitoring the melt pool in additive manufacturing, developed as part of a Horizon 2020 project
Spin-out firm SWIR Vision Systems is to commercialise colloidal quantum dot infrared sensors, which, the company says, could displace InGaAs technology. Dr Ethan Klem, Allan Hilton, and George Wildeman from the company discuss the performance, fabrication, and cost trade-offs of CQD sensors versus InGaAs
Lidar could become an important part of autonomous driving and potentially a huge market opportunity for laser and detector manufacturers, as Greg Blackman discovers at the Image Sensors conference in London
Matthew Dale explores Industry 4.0 and machine vision’s role in the connected factories of the future
Surface-based matching in Halcon, from MVTec Software
Greg Blackman looks at the latest techniques to capture and analyse 3D image data
Keely Portway finds out how vision is being used to gather data about consumers
The preferred connector for version 2.0 is the micro-BNC. Credit: Active Silicon
Chris Beynon, Active Silicon’s CTO and technical chair for the CoaXPress standard, gives an update on what’s new in v2.0
Greg Blackman reports on new hyperspectral technology presented at the Photonex show in the UK, and how the imaging technique is being used for forestry and food sorting
