Shufersal, Israel’s largest supermarket chain, has signed an agreement to install computer vision startup Trigo Vision’s automated retail platform across its 272 stores
A combination of vision, sensor and deep learning technologies are creating extraordinary developments in retail, writes Matthew Dale
Professor Dr Carsten Steger, director of research at Munich-based MVTec Software, has been elected spokesman of the technical committee of the German Association for Pattern Recognition
SLAMcore, a UK developer of Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM) algorithms for robots and drones, has raised $5m in funding in order to help it deliver its technology market
Engineers at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy are developing a vision system that can infer what a human is going to do in order for a robot to operate more effectively with its human co-workers. Professor Paolo Rocco spoke about the project at the European Machine Vision Forum in Bologna, Italy
A group at the University of Bologna is trying to make images from Grand Theft Auto more realistic so that they can act as training data for neural networks. Greg Blackman listens to Pierluigi Zama Ramirez’s presentation at the European Machine Vision Forum in Bologna in September
Israeli computer vision startup, Trigo Vision, has won $7 million in a seed funding round for AI technology that tracks items shoppers pick up in stores
The European Machine Vision Association has presented its 2018 Young Professional Award to Doris Antensteiner, a researcher at the Austrian Institute of Technology
Data is now a fiercely guarded asset for most companies and, as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force, Framos’ Dr Christopher Scheubel discusses potential new business models based on 3D vision data, following a talk he gave at the Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara this week
American startup Aquabyte, a developer of computer vision and machine learning technology for the dramatic optimisation of fish farming, has announced a $3.5 million seed round that will help the firm expand its operations
Anne Wendel, director of VDMA Machine Vision, writes about the importance of free trade for the machine vision sector, and what the VDMA is doing to promote this
Greg Blackman explores some novel ways of imaging glass, including a 3D technique to measure the flatness of glass panels
Matthew Dale discovers how emerging imaging technologies could make our roads safer and help manage congestion
The agri-food industry is on the verge of a revolution thanks to advances in precision farming. Machine vision plays a crucial role in these advances, as Keely Portway finds out
Jeff Bier, founder of the Embedded Vision Alliance, discusses the four key trends driving the proliferation of visual perception in machines
