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December 2018 / January 2019

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Good vibrations

3 January 2019

Greg Blackman reports on the latest lens technology presented during Vision Stuttgart, including optics designed to withstand shock

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Life through a lens

3 January 2019

Matthew Dale discovers embedded processing and new CMOS technology are bringing advances to medical and life science imaging

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Delivering on e-commerce

3 January 2019

Warehouses are becoming highly automated facilities that rely to a large extent on vision, as Andrew Williams discovers

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Spectral inspection

3 January 2019

Greg Blackman on how advances in lighting, optics, and sensor technology are turning hyperspectral imaging into an industrial inspection tool

October/November 2018

Analysis and opinion

Turning Grand Theft Auto into a deep learning dataset

9 October 2018

A group at the University of Bologna is trying to make images from Grand Theft Auto more realistic so that they can act as training data for neural networks. Greg Blackman listens to Pierluigi Zama Ramirez’s presentation at the European Machine Vision Forum in Bologna in September

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Old hands, fresh ideas

15 November 2018

Greg Blackman speaks to Torsten Wiesinger at Lucid Vision Labs, one of the newest industrial camera manufacturers on the block

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Vorsprung durch photonik

15 November 2018

Machine vision technology is improving quality control in automotive manufacturing, writes Andrew Williams

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Eyes on the aisle

16 November 2018

A combination of vision, sensor and deep learning technologies are creating extraordinary developments in retail, writes Matthew Dale

Vision Yearbook 2018/2019

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Date with data

31 October 2018

Andrew Williams asks how manufacturers can make better use of their machine vision data

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Vision of the future

31 October 2018

Keely Portway on some of the key factors that could have an impact on the way the machine vision world does business

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Best practice for buyouts

31 October 2018

Greg Blackman reports from the European Machine Vision Association’s business conference, where a panel of industry experts were gathered to give advice on navigating the acquisition process

Analysis and opinion

Ties that bind

15 November 2018

Matthew Wasley, knowledge transfer manager of photonics at Innovate UK’s Knowledge Transfer Network, says support is at hand for businesses wanting to collaborate

Analysis and opinion

East meets west

15 November 2018

Following the 20th China International Optoelectronic Exposition (CIOE) in September, secretary general Eric Yang, and Derek Deng, international marketing executive, comment on connecting European and Chinese firms

Analysis and opinion

The engine in engineering

11 December 2018

David Dechow, at Integro Technologies, discusses vision system integration, a discipline that remains as strong as ever as new imaging technologies become more readily available

August/September 2018

Analysis and opinion

Best of bin picking at Automatica

22 June 2018

Robot bin picking has been worked on for a number of years, and while it has been shown to be possible it’s only now that the technology is coming to fruition. Greg Blackman looks at what was on display at Automatica

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Damir Dolar

31 July 2018

Damir Dolar, managing director of Croatian firm Smartek Vision, spoke at the European Machine Vision Association’s business conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, in June. Here, he gives his view on the European industrial imaging market

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Foundation built on FPGAs

31 July 2018

Active Silicon turns 30 in September. Greg Blackman speaks to founder Colin Pearce (below) on building the company and the importance of FPGA technology

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Body image

31 July 2018

Keely Portway looks at some of the miniature imaging technology used in endoscopes

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Seeing beneath the surface

31 July 2018

Matthew Dale discovers that polarised imaging could soon see a surge in uptake in industrial inspection, thanks to a new sensor from Sony

June/July 2018

Analysis and opinion

Colloidal quantum dot sensor to disrupt SWIR imaging market

23 April 2018

Spin-out firm SWIR Vision Systems is to commercialise colloidal quantum dot infrared sensors, which, the company says, could displace InGaAs technology. Dr Ethan Klem, Allan Hilton, and George Wildeman from the company discuss the performance, fabrication, and cost trade-offs of CQD sensors versus InGaAs

Analysis and opinion

Data-driven business models inspired by 3D vision

24 May 2018

Data is now a fiercely guarded asset for most companies and, as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, Framos’ Dr Christopher Scheubel discusses potential new business models based on 3D vision data, following a talk he gave at the Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara this week

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The science behind sport

15 June 2018

In the run up to the Fifa World Cup, Greg Blackman examines how video analysis is used to improve the performance of top athletes

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Well-oiled machine

15 June 2018

Keely Portway looks at the changing relationship between human and robot in industrial environments, and the latest vision innovations involved in bringing them together

April/May 2018

Analysis and opinion

Reusing code in embedded vision applications

8 March 2018

Migrating software code from a PC to an embedded system to run vision applications presents various challenges. Following a presentation he gave at Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany last week, Frank Karstens, field application engineer at Basler, gives his advice on the task

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News from VDMA Machine Vision

20 April 2018

Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision, reports from the joint VDMA and Vision CEO roundtable event at the beginning of February

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Powering surveillance

20 April 2018

Matthew Dale explores new algorithms, processing boards and interfaces for viewing images, all for improving airborne surveillance

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Scanning the skies

20 April 2018

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

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Imaging on the edge

20 April 2018

Greg Blackman visited the Embedded World conference and exhibition in Nuremberg, Germany, at the end of February to find vision in abundance

February/March 2018

Analysis and opinion

AI for industry

26 March 2018

Michał Czardybon, general manager at Adaptive Vision, gives his view on how to make the most of deep learning in industrial vision

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News from VDMA Machine Vision, UKIVA and EMVA

27 March 2018

Chinese automation from Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision; Paul Wilson talks about self-driving delivery robots at the UKIVA Machine Vision Conference; and Thomas Lübkemeier updates on the EMVA's events calendar

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Global shutter for ADAS

27 March 2018

Cliff Cheng, senior director of automotive marketing at OmniVision Technologies, details its latest global shutter sensor for industrial and automotive imaging

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Comparing CMOS performance

27 March 2018

Albert Theuwissen, founder of Harvest Imaging, outlines a project to classify performance characteristics of CMOS image sensors

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Maximising multispectral

27 March 2018

After presenting at Image Sensors Europe in London, Dr Piet De Moor, senior business development manager, imagers at Imec, discusses a multispectral time delay and integration image sensor based on CCD-in-CMOS technology

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Strides made in polarisation sensors

27 March 2018

Harald Neubauer, Jürgen Ernst and Dr Michael Schöberl at Fraunhofer IIS describe the team’s prototype polarisation camera, Polka2, which was presented at Image Sensors Europe in London in March

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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

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Super-positioned cameras

27 March 2018

Greg Blackman looks at novel imaging devices based on quantum science, and finds that the technology is closer to commercialisation than first expected

December 2017 / January 2018

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Shining a light on lenses

11 January 2018

Stemmer Imaging’s series of technology days included talks from various lens manufacturers. Here, we round up some of what was discussed at the event

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Imaging at super resolution

11 January 2018

Greg Blackman explores the latest advances made in scientific CMOS sensors and asks whether CCDs still have a place in life science imaging

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Inspired by nature

11 January 2018

Matthew Dale investigates a new class of highly-efficient image sensor that’s just starting to find its way onto the commercial market, all based on the principles of biological sight

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View from the East

11 January 2018

Greg Blackman charts the meteoric rise of Chinese firm Hikvision, one of the top suppliers of video surveillance equipment that has now turned its sights on industrial vision

October/November 2017

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Virtual viewpoint

1 October 2017

Rob Ashwell finds that logistics, healthcare and research are turning to consumer imaging systems for their needs

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Teaching machines new tricks

1 October 2017

Artificial intelligence seems to be sweeping the world and neural networks are now starting to find their way into the industrial imaging market. Greg Blackman investigates 

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Wilhelm Stemmer

1 October 2017

Wilhelm Stemmer, who has recently retired and sold his shares in Stemmer Imaging, the company he founded 30 years ago

Vision Yearbook 2017/2018

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Keeping Up With Consolidation

30 September 2017

Pierre Cambou, imaging activity leader at Yole Développement, analyses the merger and acquisition landscape for machine vision

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The changing face of vision

30 September 2017

Embedded vision, deep learning, and Industry 4.0 could all have a big impact on the machine vision sector in the future. Three experts give their opinions

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Eyes on the East

30 September 2017

Andrew Williams explores the production and automation markets in China, India and other fast-growing nations

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Cooperation matters

30 September 2017

Following a successful European Machine Vision Forum, which brought together representatives from industry and research, Professor Bernd Jähne at the HCI, Heidelberg University and a board member of the European Machine Vision Association, argues collaboration between industry and academia is now more important than ever

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Coming full circle

30 September 2017

Greg Blackman looks back at what the UK vision industry was like 25 years ago, when the UK Industrial Vision Association was founded

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Bridge to an embedded world

30 September 2017

Jochem Herrmann, EMVA president and chief scientist at Adimec, on standardising for embedded vision, which could potentially infiltrate manufacturing in a big way

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