The sensor of SWIR Vision Systems' Acuros CQD 1920 camera
Matthew Dale finds that new sensor technologies based on quantum dots are set to bring down the cost of shortwave infrared imaging
Edmund Optics has released near infrared aspheric lenses and Techspec LS series line scan lenses
Flir Systems has made a strategic investment in Providence Photonics, a provider of software used to quantify gas emissions
Imec says the new production method promises an order of magnitude gain in fabrication throughput and cost compared to processing conventional infrared imagers
Jeffrey Chew, CEO of ADE, and Jean-François Delepau, chairman of Lynred
Taiwan-based ADE Technology has announced it will integrate infrared detectors from Lynred into a system ADE is developing for monitoring elderly people
Hamamatsu Photonics claims it is the first company to mass produce a mid-infrared detector that doesn’t use mercury and cadmium, which are restricted under the European Commission’s RoHS directive
Lynred has provided an infrared detector for the Indian Space Research Organisation's Chandrayaan-2 orbiter, recently launched to explore the Moon’s south polar region
NIT has launched a new SWIR camera, the WiDy SenS GigE for industrial applications with a proven standard interface
A short introduction to shortwave infrared (SWIR) imaging: An overview of SWIR technology and principals. Contains examples and suggestions for practical implementation of SWIR imaging in machine vision systems.
Keely Portway looks at new terahertz and infrared technologies being developed to inspect aircraft
Outfield analyses aerial images of orchards using machine learning to predict crop yield
Farmers are starting to reap the rewards of robotics and machine vision, as Keely Portway finds out
Open source software has advanced to a point where it’s now a credible option for industrial imaging, Matthew Dale finds
Active Silicon’s 4xCXP-12 FireBird Coaxpress frame grabber (PCIe Gen3 x8)
Chris Beynon, Active Silicon’s CTO and technical chair of the Coaxpress committee, updates on the Coaxpress standard
Neil Trevett and Chris Yates
The Khronos Group and the EMVA are to explore software standards for embedded vision. Khronos’ Neil Trevett and EMVA’s Chris Yates explain the work
Greg Blackman reports from the Embedded World show, where industry experts gave insights into vision processing at the edge
The first colour image, captured by a CMV20000 sensor, to be sent back by the hazard cameras on the Perseverance rover after its landing on Mars on 18 February. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Greg Blackman speaks to Guy Meynants, formerly of Cmosis, and Paul Jerram, of Teledyne e2v, about the history of the image sensors onboard the Mars rover
