A campaign to raise awareness among young people about careers in engineering has drawn up a list of seven technologies rarely recognised as feats of engineering
Greg Blackman reports from the Image Sensors Europe conference in London, which took place from 13 to 14 March
An Earth observation satellite containing a hyperspectral imager has been launched into Space in a five-year programme spearheaded by the Italian Space Agency
The first shortwave infrared camera built on quantum dot sensor technology has been launched by US firm SWIR Vision Systems
Basler's embedded vision development kit, which won an Embedded World award, along with numerous other vision technology for embedded processing, was on display during the Embedded World trade fair at the end of February in Nuremberg, Germany
Greg Blackman reports on CEA Leti's new image sensor, shown at Photonics West, which contains onboard processing and is able to image at 5,500 frames per second
Image sensor foundry, TowerJazz, has released a global shutter CMOS image sensor with a pixel size of 2.5µm, the smallest global shutter pixel in the world, the company stated
Researchers at the Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology have demonstrated 3D imaging at record speeds of 500,000 fps
Dr Reinhard Heister at VDMA Robotics and Automation on the plans for the new OPC Vision standard
Shufersal, Israel’s largest supermarket chain, has signed an agreement to install computer vision startup Trigo Vision’s automated retail platform across its 272 stores
MVTec’s deep learning tool provides means to label data simply and efficiently
Matthew Dale explores the software to simplify the management and labelling of deep learning data
Classification of nuts as good or bad using Specim’s FX17 camera
Optical design is crucial in enabling wider adoption of hyperspectral imaging, finds Andy Extance
Keely Portway surveys the latest advances in colour imaging, creating fresh opportunities in certain applications
An Illustration of the surface of PAN fibres (left) and carbon fibres after spreading (right). Credit: Fraunhofer IGCV and Chromasens
Work is underway to build a vision system to detect defects in webs of composite materials
