Photonfocus is on a mission to promote the power of CMOS image sensor technology within the machine vision and optical metrology markets. Beth Harlen reports
Following Odos Imaging winning the Vision Award, Greg Blackman, in the second part of his report from the Vision trade fair in Stuttgart, examines the 3D imaging technology on display
Messe Stuttgart has announced the shortlist for this year's Vision Award, with six entries making the final cut
CEO, Odos Imaging
As winner of the EMVA Young Professional Award 2014, presented at the recent EMVA business conference, Jakob Engel, a PhD student in the Computer Vision Group at the Technical University of Munich, updates on the potential 3D imaging applications for his novel approach to real-time visual odometry using a monocular camera
Warren Clark reports from the EMVA business conference in Vienna, where driverless cars, bioinspired colour imaging, and market data were among the topics discussed
Bin-picking remains a challenge for industrial robots, not least because of the difficulties in locating the object with vision technology, as Jessica Rowbury discovers
Cardiac doctors have trialled a 3D holographic imaging system as an aid in minimally invasive heart procedures. Jessica Rowbury speaks to Dr Elchanan Bruckheimer, a paediatric cardiologist who presented the results of the trial at a recent cardiovascular symposium
Greg Blackman explains the depth imaging technique, time-of-flight, which is of great interest to car makers as a sensing technology able to detect pedestrians and other obstacles
Greg Blackman reports from the Image Sensors Europe conference in London, which took place from 13 to 14 March
Greg Blackman reports on the complexities of training AllGo Systems' driver monitoring neural networks, which the firm's VP of engineering, Nirmal Kumar Sancheti, spoke about at the Embedded World trade fair
Greg Blackman reports on CSEM's Witness IOT camera, an ultra-low power imager that can be deployed as a sticker. Dr Andrea Dunbar presented the technology at Image Sensors Europe in London in March
Test image at 940nm
Imec is working to industrialise thin-film photodetector stacks on CMOS in order to fabricate low-cost infrared image sensors, as the Belgian institute’s Dr Paweł Malinowski explains
Greg Blackman reports on the discussion around embedded vision at the European Machine Vision Association’s business conference in Copenhagen, Denmark in mid-May
