Smarter cities in sight
17 February 2021
Keely Portway finds out how imaging is helping keep cyclists and pedestrians safe
Farmers are starting to reap the rewards of robotics and machine vision, as Keely Portway finds out
TRANSPORT
Visualisation of the movements of road users in the city of Umeå. Besides counting the tracking over multiple counting lines, Viscando also analysed the tendency for traffic conflict. Credit: Viscando
Vision algorithms take control of traffic
12 February 2020
Greg Blackman explores the vision and AI technology transforming our roads, as the transport sector gathers for the Intertraffic Amsterdam trade fair
Life in the smart lane
19 February 2019
Matthew Dale discovers how emerging imaging technologies could make our roads safer and help manage congestion
Tracking traffic
27 March 2018
Andrew Williams explores the latest imaging technologies for traffic monitoring, including how AI could be used to make sense of all that data
Staying on the rails
3 March 2017
Matthew Dale finds that optical inspection techniques are improving upkeep and the running of rail networks
The greatest show on earth
16 February 2016
Rio de Janeiro will host South America's first Olympic Games this summer. Rob Ashwell looks at the vision technologies needed to cope with the thousands of visitors that come with hosting such an event
Vision in lane
1 April 2015
Jessica Rowbury looks at the latest vision technology for ITS, including a system for monitoring six lanes of traffic
Driving imaging innovation
10 April 2014
Jessica Rowbury reports from an automotive session at the Image Sensors conference in London
Driving road safety
6 March 2014
Tom Eddershaw looks at the latest vision technology for monitoring traffic, including systems designed to make cyclists safer on the roads
Lightening the load
26 February 2013
Greg Blackman looks at applications of vision technology in the transport sector, from helping load trucks safely to managing the flow of shipping containers into and out of ports
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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
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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
