Spin-out firm SWIR Vision Systems is to commercialise colloidal quantum dot infrared sensors, which, the company says, could displace InGaAs technology. Dr Ethan Klem, Allan Hilton, and George Wildeman from the company discuss the performance, fabrication, and cost trade-offs of CQD sensors versus InGaAs
Computing company Qualcomm Technologies has released a family of system-on-chips built for devices incorporating vision technology
Ulis, a manufacturer of thermal image sensors, has announced a response time for its latest bolometer that is four times faster than standard bolometers
Michał Czardybon, general manager at Adaptive Vision, gives his view on how to make the most of deep learning in industrial vision
Lidar could become an important part of autonomous driving and potentially a huge market opportunity for laser and detector manufacturers, as Greg Blackman discovers at the Image Sensors conference in London
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has built a VNIR hyperspectral camera that costs only $150 for the sensor hardware
Imec, the Belgian research hub, has shown its first shortwave infrared hyperspectral imaging camera at SPIE Photonics West in San Francisco
The French research institute, Leti, has developed a prototype technology able to curve image sensors and micro-displays, which was shown at SPIE Photonics West
Greg Blackman reports from SPIE Photonics West, where the first image sensors based on graphene-CMOS integration were on display
American startup Aquabyte, a developer of computer vision and machine learning technology for the dramatic optimisation of fish farming, has announced a $3.5 million seed round that will help the firm expand its operations
MVTec’s Halcon software library includes a deep learning OCR tool with pre-trained fonts from a wide range of industries. Credit: MVTec
Matthew Dale explores vision solutions for code reading and inspection in pharmaceutical production
Engineers at KYB in front of a pick-and-place solution for handling steel metal cylinders. Credit: Pickit
Car manufacturing has been hit hard by Covid-19, but the need for automation on production lines has not diminished, as Greg Blackman finds out
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
SWIR imaging can show bruising in fruit that wouldn't be evident with a visible camera. Credit: Sony
Edmund Optics’s Thomas Armspach-Young and Boris Lange consider the optics needed to get the best out of Sony's new short-wave infrared image sensors
What kind of economic development do you expect during and after this crisis?
Findings from a two-part survey, conducted by the European Machine Vision Association, on the effects the Covid-19 pandemic could have on the machine vision industry
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Christoph Hellmann Santos, of the ROS Industrial Consortium Europe and Fraunhofer IPA, explains why more industrial users are now building robots through the open source software platform, Robot Operating System
