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
Matthew Dale explores how online supermarket Ocado is using 3D vision to automate its warehouses
The harvesting process could be on the verge of a complete overhaul thanks to machine vision, finds Matthew Dale
Greg Blackman looks at the systems inspecting high-speed packaging lines
Rob Ashwell examines the growing use of hyperspectral imaging in food production
Rob Coppinger looks at the imaging equipment used on food-processing lines, including hyperspectral systems for classifying fruit and veg, and 3D vision for measuring baked goods
Greg Blackman looks at where machine vision is proving vital for quality control on bottling and canning lines
Greg Blackman looks at where machine vision is finding uses in agriculture and for grading and sorting foodstuffs
Greg Blackman looks at some of the machine vision applications in food processing, from the high-speed environment of canning and bottling to inspection in bakeries
The breadth of uses of machine vision in the food processing industry is impressive. Greg Blackman looks at how vision systems are used to sort and inspect what eventually ends up on our plates
Outfield analyses aerial images of orchards using machine learning to predict crop yield
Farmers are starting to reap the rewards of robotics and machine vision, as Keely Portway finds out
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
