The British Machine Vision Conference is due take place at the beginning of September, an event with machine vision in the title - but, confusingly, focusing on academic algorithm development and computer vision. Greg Blackman asks what industrial image processing can learn from academia
Greg Blackman looks at the options for high-throughput image processing, including FPGAs and multicore processors, and finds out what unites development in all software packages is ease of use
Greg Blackman on the developments taking place within image processing libraries
Stephen Mounsey looks at trends in the development of image processing software and libraries, and finds that usability is becoming increasingly important here
Stephen Mounsey discovers that for some applications, 'quite fast' just isn't fast enough
Greg Blackman investigates some of the advancements in image processing technology
Gemma Church looks at how image processing is taking advantage of multicore computing to increase processing speeds
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
Two robots have been installed at Aalborg University Hospital in Denmark. Credit: Kuka
Keely Portway looks at how robots are automating procedures in hospital testing laboratories, and how imaging underpins this
A setup for photometric stereo imaging in which multiple lights are used to illuminate an object from different directions. Credit: Advanced illumination
Matthew Dale explores the power of computational imaging, all made possible by clever illumination
Credit: Flir Systems
As demand for thermal imaging rises during the coronavirus pandemic, Greg Blackman asks how effective thermal cameras are at screening people for signs of fever
Greg Blackman speaks to Kieran Edge at the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, about new vision projects and the presentation he is to give for UKIVA's vision technology hub, to be broadcast on 14 May
Stemmer Imaging's David Hearn has died after a long illness. Mark Williamson, corporate marketing director at the company, looks back at Hearn’s career
The appetite for vision and automation remains strong, but there is still a lot of uncertainty at the present time, were the views of the heads of the AIA, EMVA, VDMA Machine Vision, and UKIVA in a webinar
Chinese hospitals have ordered 2,000 UVD robots from Blue Ocean Robotics since the start of the pandemic. Credit: Blue Ocean Robotics
The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of robotics and automation in many areas of manufacturing and society, according to CEOs of robotic firms in a webinar run by A3
