Mikrotron helps scientists study the sun's surface
18 March 2020
High-speed Mikrotron cameras reduce the effects of atmospheric distortion
Matthew Dale looks at what it will take to increase the adoption of embedded vision
Astronomy
Thermal detection of endangered species helped by astronomy software
6 April 2018
A thermal imaging technique taken from astrophysical software is being used by ecologists at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) to improve the accuracy of monitoring endangered animal species
Project to digitise 1960s moon images turns to OCR
9 January 2018
More than 92,000 images of the moon’s surface taken in the 1960s by Nasa’s Surveyor missions have been digitised in a project conducted by the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Frame grabbers taken to edge of atmosphere to image exoplanets
9 November 2017
Two Active Silicon frame grabbers are being launched on a scientific balloon high into the Earth’s atmosphere as part of a research project to explore Earth-like exoplanets
Teledyne e2v wins CCD contract for world's largest telescope camera
18 October 2017
Teledyne e2v has been awarded a multimillion-dollar contract by SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to supply CCD image sensors for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
Surveying the sky
16 December 2014
Tom Eddershaw on the imaging equipment observing our skies, both from Earth and space, including the imagers onboard the Rosetta Philae lander
One billion pixels, one billion stars
13 December 2013
From the ESA Gaia mission to survey one billion stars, which is due to launch this month, to photographing the sun, Greg Blackman looks at some of the imaging technology used in astronomy
Latest issue
InGaAs and event-based sensors still rely on silicon CMOS readout ICs
Greg Blackman explores the work being done on InGaAs sensors, along with other types of novel sensor that could find their way into the machine vision market
Oliver Fähnle, of Fisba, says optimising optical systems relies on communities in the supply chain talking to one another
Newly elected EMVA president Chris Yates considers what the future might hold for machine vision
Michał Czardybon, CEO of Adaptive Vision, on how to handle data and image annotation when working with deep learning
Raghava Kashyapa, CEO of Indian vision firm Qualitas Technologies, writes about the benefits and challenges of implementing machine vision in the cloud – and what this holds for manufacturing in India
Paul Wilson, managing director of Scorpion Vision, describes what it takes to install a 3D robot vision system in a Chinese foundry
