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Researchers to build spectral imaging for nanosats
26 July 2018
A multispectral imaging device small enough to be installed on a nanosatellite is being developed in research led by the University of Strathclyde
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Leti launches project to characterise lidar sensors
9 July 2018
French research institute Leti has announced a pilot programme to characterise and assess lidar sensors for autonomous vehicles
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EU Spirit project to advance robot inspection
3 July 2018
A three-year EU research project, called Spirit, has begun that aims to reduce engineering costs when setting up inspection robots in factories
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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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AIT stereo vision researcher wins EMVA young professional award
11 June 2018
The European Machine Vision Association has presented its 2018 Young Professional Award to Doris Antensteiner, a researcher at the Austrian Institute of Technology
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One hundred million frames per second camera to further cancer research
6 June 2018
The Rosalind Franklin Institute, based in Oxfordshire, UK, has begun a project to build the world’s most advanced high-speed video camera for imaging tissue in cancer research
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Enhanced time-of-flight: CMOS solution for automotive lidar
29 May 2018
After speaking at AutoSens Detroit on 16 May, Nadav Haas, product manager at Israeli firm Newsight Imaging, gives his opinion on why the company’s CMOS solution is a good fit for lidar sensing in autonomous driving
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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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Real-time melt pool monitoring in additive manufacturing
18 May 2018
Dr Christos Theoharatos, chief scientific officer at Irida Labs, describes an imaging system for monitoring the melt pool in additive manufacturing, developed as part of a Horizon 2020 project
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Ambarella marks 20 years of autonomous driving
14 May 2018
Italian vision company VisLab, now part of semiconductor firm Ambarella, is celebrating the 20-year anniversary of MilleMiglia in Automatico, one of the world’s first tests of an autonomous vehicle on public roads
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Greg Blackman on the deep learning software tools now being deployed in industrial imaging
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Keely Portway looks at some of the miniature imaging technology used in endoscopes
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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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Matthew Dale discovers that polarised imaging could soon see a surge in uptake in industrial inspection, thanks to a new sensor from Sony
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Active Silicon turns 30 in September. Greg Blackman speaks to founder Colin Pearce (below) on building the company and the importance of FPGA technology