True colours
10 November 2020
Keely Portway surveys the latest advances in colour imaging, creating fresh opportunities in certain applications
Greg Blackman explores the efforts underway to improve connectivity in factories
COLOUR IMAGING
The colour of money
10 April 2014
Tom Eddershaw finds that, with new polymer banknotes entering circulation in various countries, colour imaging systems that offer extended sensitivity into the infrared and ultraviolet are needed to inspect the printed money
Adding a splash of colour
26 February 2013
Rob Coppinger investigates what it takes to make an accurate colour reading, from software calibration to the colour sensors used
Glorious Technicolor
22 February 2012
Greg Blackman investigates the complexities of imaging in colour
Does it come in puce...?
15 February 2011
Technical progress and increased demand is seeing colour imaging advance from its established print inspection market to a host of other applications. Stephen Mounsey looks at the challenges of reproducing colours in machine vision
Looking to a colourful future
30 September 2008
Colour inspection on the factory floor is finally coming of age, 147 years after the first colour image was taken. David Robson investigates why it took so long, and how machine vision suppliers are making up for lost time
Latest issue
MVTec’s deep learning tool provides means to label data simply and efficiently
Matthew Dale explores the software to simplify the management and labelling of deep learning data
Classification of nuts as good or bad using Specim’s FX17 camera
Optical design is crucial in enabling wider adoption of hyperspectral imaging, finds Andy Extance
Keely Portway surveys the latest advances in colour imaging, creating fresh opportunities in certain applications
An Illustration of the surface of PAN fibres (left) and carbon fibres after spreading (right). Credit: Fraunhofer IGCV and Chromasens
Work is underway to build a vision system to detect defects in webs of composite materials
