Greg Blackman looks at how SWIR spectral imaging can help reduce plastic pollution, both through environmental surveys and by improving sorting in recycling plants
Image sensor
Credit: Imec
Imec releases prototype SWIR sensor with 1.82µm pixel pitch
10 December 2020
The sensor is based on a thin-film photodetector monolithically integrated on a custom Si-CMOS readout circuit
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Mars rover to study Red Planet with advanced imaging
29 July 2020
The Perseverance rover contains 19 cameras, including seven scientific instruments. It will analyse the climate and geology of Mars, looking for signs of past life, as well as monitoring the Martian atmosphere
Lynred joins consortium to build 3D stacked IR detectors
16 July 2020
Lynred sees 3D stacking technology as key to enabling superior designs in future infrared detectors
South Korean firm selects Newsight sensors for camera line
16 July 2020
Newsight's NSI3000 line sensor and NSI1000 area sensor have successfully passed Jinoid's evaluation, and the first batch of a thousand chips has been provided and assembled
Sony releases industrial SWIR sensors with 5μm pixels
12 May 2020
The sensors boast a pixel pitch of 5μm thanks to Sony's stacking technology using a copper-to-copper connection. They also deliver high quantum efficiency even in the visible range
InGaAs and event-based sensors still rely on silicon CMOS readout ICs
Sense of purpose
15 April 2020
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
Image from the event-based sensor
Sony teams with Prophesee to release event-based sensor
19 February 2020
Sony and Prophesee have developed a stacked event-based vision sensor, it was announced at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco
Image Sensors Europe 2020
The Moon landing was 50 years old in 2019. Zeiss lenses were used to capture this image
The best of 2019
23 December 2019
The last year has been one of consolidation for the machine vision industry, along with a slowdown in the markets that machine vision serves
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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
