How will the world feed 10 billion people by 2050 with no new land for agriculture? Greg Blackman speaks to machine builder Bühler about how optical sensing can maximise yield in grain processing
The Harvesters (1565), by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Greg Blackman speaks to Dr Richard Dudley about the National Physical Laboratory’s 3D imaging rig, which will be scanning wheat in crop breeding trials this summer
The agri-food industry is on the verge of a revolution thanks to advances in precision farming. Machine vision plays a crucial role in these advances, as Keely Portway finds out
The harvesting process could be on the verge of a complete overhaul thanks to machine vision, finds Matthew Dale
Rob Ashwell examines the growing use of hyperspectral imaging in food production
Jessica Rowbury looks at how imaging technology is allowing farmers to reduce their environmental impact while improving profitability
Greg Blackman looks at the relatively recent introduction of vision in farming, from measuring vigour in vineyards to grading cherries
Greg Blackman looks at where machine vision is finding uses in agriculture and for grading and sorting foodstuffs
Greg Blackman looks at how SWIR spectral imaging can help reduce plastic pollution, both through environmental surveys and by improving sorting in recycling plants
Keely Portway looks at some of the new imaging techniques advancing biological investigation
The highlighted objects on the left show scaling errors, rotation errors or translation errors, while the objects on the right are a truer representation. Credit: Zivid
Matthew Dale explores the new 3D vision tools that are enabling automated bin picking
Tropical Storm Frank off the south western coast of Baja California, captured by Ames Research Centre's HDVis camera mounted on Nasa's Global Hawk unmanned research aircraft. Credit: NASA/NOAA
Theia Technology’s Mark Peterson outlined the benefits of rectilinear lenses at AIA’s vision solutions conference. Greg Blackman reports
As AMD buys Xilinx and Nvidia acquires Arm, we ask two industry experts what this could mean for the vision sector
Greg Blackman reports on how the heads of AIA, VDMA Machine Vision, EMVA, and UKIVA assess the impact of the pandemic on the vision sector
