Greg Blackman looks at how SWIR spectral imaging can help reduce plastic pollution, both through environmental surveys and by improving sorting in recycling plants
Resolve Optics reports on how ultra large format lenses it has developed are helping a next generation aerial surveillance camera gain data on coastal erosion faster and in more detail
Greg Blackman reports on new hyperspectral technology presented at the Photonex show in the UK, and how the imaging technique is being used for forestry and food sorting
New software called ChimpFace is helping conservationists identify illegal trade in chimpanzees using face recognition
The World Wildlife Fund and Flir Systems are supplying rangers across 10 parks and game reserves in Kenya with thermal imaging cameras in an effort to stop illegal rhino poaching
A robot designed to kill salmon has been installed in a fish farm in Norway to automate its slaughterhouse. Tordivel's Thor Vollset described the system at the UKIVA Machine Vision Conference in Milton Keynes on 16 May
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
Thermal imaging has been used in a study by researchers at the University of Glasgow to show how animals cope with their environment
Greg Blackman looks at how SWIR spectral imaging can help reduce plastic pollution, both through environmental surveys and by improving sorting in recycling plants
Keely Portway looks at some of the new imaging techniques advancing biological investigation
The highlighted objects on the left show scaling errors, rotation errors or translation errors, while the objects on the right are a truer representation. Credit: Zivid
Matthew Dale explores the new 3D vision tools that are enabling automated bin picking
Tropical Storm Frank off the south western coast of Baja California, captured by Ames Research Centre's HDVis camera mounted on Nasa's Global Hawk unmanned research aircraft. Credit: NASA/NOAA
Theia Technology’s Mark Peterson outlined the benefits of rectilinear lenses at AIA’s vision solutions conference. Greg Blackman reports
As AMD buys Xilinx and Nvidia acquires Arm, we ask two industry experts what this could mean for the vision sector
Greg Blackman reports on how the heads of AIA, VDMA Machine Vision, EMVA, and UKIVA assess the impact of the pandemic on the vision sector
