Algolux presented a research paper at CVPR 2020, describing an approach applying a stochastic optimisation method to the problem of optimal hardware-software co-design of cameras and computer vision algorithms
AutoSens Detroit, from 14-16 May, will have presentations from the US Highway Loss Data Institute, talking about the impact of current deployed ADAS technologies on road safety, along with keynotes from Siemens and Toyota Motor North America, and technical presentations from experts at GM, Changan, Aptiv, Daimler, Nvidia, Valeo, Sony, and TomTom
The EU initiative Tulipp, which targets embedded systems for image processing, has delivered its first three use cases covering medical x-ray imaging, automotive driver assistance, and UAVs
Cliff Cheng, senior director of automotive marketing at OmniVision Technologies, details its latest global shutter sensor for industrial and automotive imaging
Intel has announced it will purchase Israeli company Mobileye for $15.3 billion to position Intel as a leading technology provider in the autonomous vehicle market
On Semiconductor has licensed a vision embedded computing platform from Ceva for its automotive advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) product lines
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
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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
