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
Swivel chair and screen at 40m - picture taken with a 32 x 16-pixel sensor. Credit: Pointcloud and ORC
Researchers in Southampton, UK and San Francisco have developed a lidar sensor that could pave the way for low-cost, high-performance 3D imaging
Lacera wafer
The firm's Lacera technology delivers greater than 90 per cent quantum efficiency and low noise architecture with up to 18-bit readout
French firm New Imaging Technologies has joined the effort to produce SWIR image sensors with smaller pixels
In a public area, LEDs could be used for general lighting, visible light communication and 3D video surveillance. Credit: Emma Le Francois, University of Strathclyde
It is hoped the photometric stereo imaging approach could open up new ways for robots to sense their environment
Credit: Recycleye
Recycleye’s vision system is capable of detecting and classifying items in waste streams, broken down by material, object and brand
Greg Blackman reports on the views of panellists from AIT, MVTec, Irida Labs, and Xilinx discussing AI and machine vision
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The sensor is based on a thin-film photodetector monolithically integrated on a custom Si-CMOS readout circuit
Terahertz imaging company, Tihive, has been awarded €8.6m from the European Innovation Council's Accelerator programme to scale up its industrial inspection technology
A point cloud of a National Research Council Canada artefact superimposed on a CAD model. Credit: NIST
How do you choose a 3D vision system for a robot cell? Geraldine Cheok and Kamel Saidi at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA discuss an initiative to define standards for industrial 3D imaging
Greg Blackman speaks to Imec’s Paweł Malinowski about the institute’s new quantum dot SWIR sensor
Hyperspectral imaging can be used to check for blemishes on food packaging lines. Credit: Brillopak
Matthew Dale finds out how vision is enabling smaller batch sizes to be processed on packaging lines
Vision Components MIPI modules can be connected to various embedded processors, including Nvidia Jetson boards
Greg Blackman examines the effort that goes into creating an embedded vision system
Keely Portway finds out how imaging is helping keep cyclists and pedestrians safe
The UK Industrial Vision Association’s Neil Sandhu and Allan Anderson assess some of the implications of the trade deal between the EU and the UK
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Dimitrios Damianos and Eric Mounier at Yole Développement examine the market landscape after the $8bn purchase
Dr Chris Yates, director of Vision Ventures, gives his take on Flir's acquisition by Teledyne Technologies
Greg Blackman reports on the views of panellists from AIT, MVTec, Irida Labs, and Xilinx discussing AI and machine vision
Imaging and Machine Vision Europe gathered a panel of experts to discuss uptake of 3D vision in robot automation. Greg Blackman reports on what was said
