Stemmer Imaging has acquired Spanish firm Infaimon for a deal reported to be in the low tens of millions of euros
New software called ChimpFace is helping conservationists identify illegal trade in chimpanzees using face recognition
Computer vision expert, Scott Krig at Krig Research, explains how understanding 'feature descriptor metrics' can help optimise image processing in industrial vision
Following speaking at the AIA business conference in Orlando, Florida at the end of January, Jon Sobel, CEO and co-founder of Sight Machine, argues that with modern data analytics machine vision can be much more than just inspection
The British Machine Vision Conference is due take place at the beginning of September, an event with machine vision in the title - but, confusingly, focusing on academic algorithm development and computer vision. Greg Blackman asks what industrial image processing can learn from academia
Greg Blackman looks at the options for high-throughput image processing, including FPGAs and multicore processors, and finds out what unites development in all software packages is ease of use
Greg Blackman on the developments taking place within image processing libraries
Stephen Mounsey looks at trends in the development of image processing software and libraries, and finds that usability is becoming increasingly important here
Stephen Mounsey discovers that for some applications, 'quite fast' just isn't fast enough
Limited data is a common problem when training CNNs in industrial imaging applications. Petra Thanner and Daniel Soukup, from the Austrian Institute of Technology, discuss ways of working with CNNs when data is scarce
Matthew Dale explores the high-resolution imaging solutions emerging for inspecting OLEDs and other electronic displays
As car makers install production lines for electric vehicles, Greg Blackman looks at how vision is currently used in their factories
Keely Portway investigates how vision technology is being used in the dental sector, from initial diagnosis, to quality control of prostheses
The UK is up to 20 per cent less productive than its major competitor countries because it is not investing in automation, Mike Wilson at the British Automation and Robot Association said at UKIVA's machine vision conference in Milton Keynes. Greg Blackman reports
