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
Retailers are using complex vision analytics to track shoppers, from entering a store to the point of purchase. RetailNext’s Mark Jamtgaard spoke at the Embedded Vision Summit about an embedded system for just such a purpose. Greg Blackman reports
The Spanish research institute, ICFO, has developed what it says is the first graphene quantum dot-based CMOS integrated camera
Neural networks will be the common language of the future for computer vision, according to Professor Jitendra Malik from UC Berkeley. Greg Blackman listened to his keynote at the Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara
Dr Reinhard Heister at VDMA Robotics and Automation on the plans for the new OPC Vision standard
Greg Blackman reports on the latest lens technology presented during Vision Stuttgart, including optics designed to withstand shock
Matthew Dale discovers embedded processing and new CMOS technology are bringing advances to medical and life science imaging
Warehouses are becoming highly automated facilities that rely to a large extent on vision, as Andrew Williams discovers
Greg Blackman on how advances in lighting, optics, and sensor technology are turning hyperspectral imaging into an industrial inspection tool
