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The newly discovered polymer can be moulded into a variety of lenses with exceptional infrared transparency (Image: Tonkin et al.)

New wonder polymer unlocks affordable thermal imaging optics

08 June 2023

Australian researchers have discovered a low-cost polymer with “the highest long-wave infrared transparency ever reported for a plastic"

The hyperspectral data from Pixxel's satellite constellation will be used to reveal key data about the health of the planet (Image: EPFL)

Google invests in hyperspectral satellite imaging startup

05 June 2023

Pixxel is looking to deploy the world’s first and highest-resolution hyperspectral satellite constellation

Using artificial intelligence and optical measurement technology, SURFinpro detects, classifies, and visualises defects in real time during production

Defect-spotting optical AI system set to speed up semiconductor production

05 June 2023

Researchers at Fraunhofer IWS have developed a solution that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and optical measurement technology to identify defects in real-time

Alexander Braun, Professor of Physics at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf

The Photonics100: Alexander Braun Q&A

31 May 2023

Imaging and Machine Vision Europe talks to previous honoree of The Photonics100 Alexander Braun, Professor of Physics at the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf

Around 1,300 exhibitors and 30,000 attendees are expected at the Laser World of Photonics

Coventry and Munich to host imaging sector in June

26 May 2023

What to expect at The Laser World of Photonics, Automatica, UKIVA Machine Vision Conference and Automate UK, all of which are set to take place next month

The Innovation Award will be presented at the Laser World of Photonics in Munich next month, in partnership with Europa Science

Finalists announced for Innovation Award 2023!

23 May 2023

Imaging and Machine Vision Europe offers a sneak preview of this year’s shortlist for the Innovation Award that will be presented at the Laser World of Photonics in June

Happy International Day of Light 2023 from IMVE

16 May 2023

To mark this year's International Day of Light, we highlight some of the latest exciting innovations taking place across the machine vision sector

The constellation will be used to generate a complete, high-resolution 3D point cloud of the Earth's surface (Image: Shutterstock/rommma)

'First' lidar satellite constellation to map Earth's land in 3D

10 May 2023

The mapping data will serve the environmental science, infrastructure, agriculture and forestry industries

Entangled biphotons behave as low-wavelength particles while maintaining high energy (Image: Lance Hayashida/Caltech)

Quantum entanglement doubles microscope resolution

09 May 2023

Researchers have achieved microscopy imaging using short-wavelength, low-energy photons

TKH Group acquires frame grabber provider Euresys

09 May 2023

Euresys' technology complements TKH’s existing machine vision solutions, and adds strong software expertise, interface technologies and know-how to its capabilities

Advances in the technology suggest this may be a tipping point, says Rafael Romay-Juarez at this year's EMVA Business Conference

3D stacked technologies applied to custom CMOS image sensors – should you invest in differentiation?

05 May 2023

Advances in the technology suggest this may be a tipping point, says Rafael Romay-Juarez at this year's EMVA Business Conference

The technique processes measurements using a transformer-based encoder to extract high-dimensional features and feeds them into a multi-scale attention network-based decoder to output the class, location, and size information of multiple objects at once.

Imageless object detection could improve autonomous driving

04 May 2023

Known as image-free single-pixel object detection, the technique works by scanning a scene to detect and classify multiple objects at once

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