Vision in the crosshairs
18 November 2008
Greg Blackman looks at some of the uses for vision technology in military vehicles and for border defence
Matthew Dale explores vision solutions for code reading and inspection in pharmaceutical production
October/November 2008
Claudio Sager, managing director, Stemmer Imaging AG, Switzerland
18 November 2008
Seeing without vision
18 November 2008
Gemma Church looks at the increasing range of applications of thermal and infrared imaging products away from the battlefield
Connecting the dots
18 November 2008
Gemma Church explores how to set up a networked vision system, looks at some common misconceptions, and seeks advice on how to get the best from a multi-camera, networked system
Pack tracking
18 November 2008
Greg Blackman identifies some of the uses for machine vision on packaging lines
A true world player
18 November 2008
John Murphy charts the history of JAI, a global vision company with its roots in Denmark
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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
