Product design firm Cambridge Consultants has built a smart recycling unit that uses both machine vision and machine learning to help consumers identify what waste can be recycled in shops or commercial buildings
The heavens open on Jessica Rowbury as she looks at the science behind the sweet smell of summer rain
A new approach to thermal imaging incorporating machine learning has been developed that improves the classification of objects at distances up to 1,500 metres
Mathew Daniel at data management software provider Sciemetric Instruments explains the importance of centralised data collection in factory automation, and why image data is a key part of that
Researchers have used a facility featuring hundreds of video cameras to teach a computer to recognise and understand the body language of multiple people in real time
At Laser World of Photonics in Munich, the UK Quantum Technology Hub in Quantum Enhanced Imaging was displaying a number of imaging project demonstrators, including a methane gas camera being built in collaboration with M Squared Lasers
Boaz Arad, a PhD student at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel, has been awarded the EMVA Young Professional Award 2017 for his work on computer vision and hyperspectral imaging
A team from Purdue University will compete in SpaceX’s second Hyperloop Pod Competition with a transport pod running multiple cameras as part of its location system
Artificial intelligence is being used in a new multi-modal image fusion technology that automatically combines the best parts of images from different sources
A collaboration of researchers from Microsoft Research and HRL Laboratories has developed a prototype digital camera that uses spherically curved image sensors
Boaz Arad, a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Computational Vision Lab, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and winner of the EMVA Young Professional Award 2017
Greg Blackman finds that advances in LEDs and greater illumination control are furthering machine vision lighting
Greg Blackman speaks to Guy Lavi at Israeli firm Volume Elements, a company that specialises in developing vision algorithms
Matthew Dale explores how thermal imaging can be used to avoid machine failure and emergency maintenance in industrial environments
Rob Ashwell examines how advances in medical imaging are aiding earlier diagnosis and robotic surgery