The Moon landing was 50 years old in 2019. Zeiss lenses were used to capture this image
The last year has been one of consolidation for the machine vision industry, along with a slowdown in the markets that machine vision serves
The TKH Group has bought optical metrology firm FocalSpec to add to its portfolio of machine vision technologies
Sualab’s Suakit machine vision software uses neural networks to detect atypical and irregular defects that are not easily captured by a traditional rule-based machine vision system
Thorlabs has purchased US-based Operations Technology (Optek), a designer and manufacturer of large-format, granite-based video and x-ray dimensional measurement systems
SVS-Vistek has been bought by TKH Group, which owns Allied Vision, Chromasens, Mikrotron, NET and Tattile
Trottier takes control of Matrox's three divisions: Matrox Imaging, Matrox Graphics, and Matrox Video
Stemmer Imaging has concluded the acquisition of the Spanish group Infaimon
Joining the Macnica group will enable ATD to enhance its system-level design support for imaging applications
The organiser of Photonex, Xmark Media, has been bought by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics
Stemmer Imaging has acquired Spanish firm Infaimon for a deal reported to be in the low tens of millions of euros
The sensor of SWIR Vision Systems' Acuros CQD 1920 camera
Matthew Dale finds that new sensor technologies based on quantum dots are set to bring down the cost of shortwave infrared imaging
Keely Portway finds out how vision technology is playing a role in medical diagnosis
Bob McCurrach, director of standards development at AIA, updates on the progress being made in GigE Vision
Following speaking at Embedded Vision Europe, Pierre Gutierrez, lead machine learning researcher at Scortex, writes about the challenges of deploying deep learning on the factory floor
Takashi Someda, CTO at Hacarus, on the advantages of sparse modelling AI tools
Depth map from the SceneScan. Credit: Nerian Vision
Dr Konstantin Schauwecker, CEO of Nerian Vision, describes the firm’s stereo vision sensor for fast depth perception with FPGAs
MVDK evaluation board with MIPI CSI-2 sensor and CXP interface board. Credit: Euresys
Greg Blackman finds that purchasing IP cores for FPGAs is one way to reduce time-to-market for camera production
