Applications

Players of Basque and Gaelic traditional sports, including pelota, Gaelic football, hurling and camogie, have been recorded using motion capture technologies to document the players' movements

Hyperspectral imaging has been used to examine 5,500-year-old clay figurines found at community excavations in Vantaa, Finland

An imaging solution based on flexible fibre bundles has been engineered by Schott's Lighting and Imaging division in order to read matrix codes on the underside of MEMS substrates at electronics company, STMicroelectronics

Engineers at the Rolls-Royce test facility in Derby, UK have used thermal imaging to test the wheels of the 1,000mph land speed record car, the Bloodhound SSC project

The German national football team which won the World Cup in Brazil used a vision system during training sessions as part of the team's tournament preparations

A train mounted camera system is helping the UK's rail network inspect track conditions, whilst in france a vehicle mounted Lidar system is being used for 3D laser mapping of railways

A team at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK has developed a medical device that uses infrared imaging to monitor patient respiratory rates

A photo captured from a drone hovering above an eagle has won an international competition for aerial photography taken by drones

A murder trial in a Birmingham, UK Crown Court has used panoramic 360 degree crime scene photographs provided by an innovative camera that permits a virtual 'walk through' of the scene of an incident

Olmec UK has designed and integrated a high-speed, end-of-line (EOL) vision inspection and collation system for products sealed in paper-based pouches prior to human transfer into cartons