True colours
10 November 2020
Keely Portway surveys the latest advances in colour imaging, creating fresh opportunities in certain applications
Farmers are starting to reap the rewards of robotics and machine vision, as Keely Portway finds out
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
Events
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Outfield analyses aerial images of orchards using machine learning to predict crop yield
Open source software has advanced to a point where it’s now a credible option for industrial imaging, Matthew Dale finds
Active Silicon’s 4xCXP-12 FireBird Coaxpress frame grabber (PCIe Gen3 x8)
Chris Beynon, Active Silicon’s CTO and technical chair of the Coaxpress committee, updates on the Coaxpress standard
Neil Trevett and Chris Yates
The Khronos Group and the EMVA are to explore software standards for embedded vision. Khronos’ Neil Trevett and EMVA’s Chris Yates explain the work
Greg Blackman reports from the Embedded World show, where industry experts gave insights into vision processing at the edge
The first colour image, captured by a CMV20000 sensor, to be sent back by the hazard cameras on the Perseverance rover after its landing on Mars on 18 February. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Greg Blackman speaks to Guy Meynants, formerly of Cmosis, and Paul Jerram, of Teledyne e2v, about the history of the image sensors onboard the Mars rover
