Spectral sorting fruit and veg
14 June 2016
Rob Ashwell examines the growing use of hyperspectral imaging in food production
Farmers are starting to reap the rewards of robotics and machine vision, as Keely Portway finds out
SPECTRAL IMAGING
Inspect, eat, drink, and be merry
5 June 2013
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
Building a spectral picture
24 April 2013
Greg Blackman looks at the technology surrounding spectral imaging, including hyperspectral and multispectral solutions suitable for industrial imaging
Spectroscopy meets imaging
15 February 2011
Multispectral and hyperspectral imaging techniques, which combine spectroscopy and imaging, are opening up a range of applications from environmental monitoring and agricultural research to automation of plastic recycling, as Greg Blackman discovers
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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
