Managing directors Jan-Erik Schmitt (left) and Oliver Sidla
Vision Components and its Austrian partner, SL Solutions, have founded Carrida Technologies, a subsidiary that aims to develop vehicle and number plate recognition
The Carrida software engine from Vision Components for automatic number plate recognition has been augmented by a make and model identification function featuring deep learning algorithms
Rio de Janeiro will host South America's first Olympic Games this summer. Rob Ashwell looks at the vision technologies needed to cope with the thousands of visitors that come with hosting such an event
Jessica Rowbury looks at the latest vision technology for ITS, including a system for monitoring six lanes of traffic
Tom Eddershaw looks at the latest vision technology for monitoring traffic, including systems designed to make cyclists safer on the roads
Paul Danini, a technology and market analyst at Yole Développement, says, in a maturing machine vision market, companies will have to adapt to new areas and reduce costs to survive
Greg Blackman looks at applications of vision technology in the transport sector, from helping load trucks safely to managing the flow of shipping containers into and out of ports
Rob Coppinger on how machine vision solutions are being applied in traffic monitoring and enforcement
Greg Blackman looks at some examples of intelligent transport systems in use for traffic monitoring and enforcement
Greg Blackman looks at the infiltration of machine vision technology into the traffic sector
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
