A collaborative research project between academic and commercial entities is exploring how a combination of imaging, machine learning and robotics could be used to automate the unloading of standard 40-foot shipping containers
Researchers at Ocado Technology, the tech division of the online supermarket Ocado, have developed a prototype robot picking solution that uses a 3D vision system to identify and pick up objects from crates
Profile measurement and surface inspection company, Nextsense, has passed €10 million for the first three quarters of 2017
Machine vision is one of the driving forces of industrial automation. For a long time, it’s been primarily pushed forward by improvements made in 2D image sensing and, for some applications, 2D sensing is still an optimal tool to solve a problem. But the majority of challenges machine vision is facing today has a 3D character. From well-established metrology up to new applications in smart robotics, 3D sensors serve as a main source of data. Here, we discuss the parameters of 3D sensing techniques.
Matthew Dale explores how 3D cameras are granting robots the gift of sight
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
Tolga Birdal at the Technical University of Munich is co-organising a 3D vision workshop at the ICCV computer vision conference in October. Here, he argues that 3D vision's strength - geometry - is also what's holding it back
Cognex has strengthened its position in 3D vision with a number of recent company acquisitions in the area, as Greg Blackman discovers
Adding embedded processing to simple sensors can make them 'smart' - but that is just the beginning of the story
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
