Facebook, Amazon and Google are all working on high-profile deep learning projects, from speech pattern recognition to building driverless cars. Rob Ashwell looks at how the technology is being deployed in the machine vision sector to improve and speed inspection
Matthew Dale explores new algorithms, processing boards and interfaces for viewing images, all for improving airborne surveillance
Andrew Williams finds that 3D scanning systems that can pinpoint dents and imperfections on aircraft body panels are being welcomed by aviation businesses to replace manual inspection
Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision, reports from the joint VDMA and Vision CEO roundtable event at the beginning of February
Greg Blackman visited the Embedded World conference and exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany, at the end of February to find vision in abundance