Farmers are starting to reap the rewards of robotics and machine vision, as Keely Portway finds out
Lidar
Swivel chair and screen at 40m - picture taken with a 32 x 16-pixel sensor. Credit: Pointcloud and ORC
Silicon photonics lidar raises 3D imaging performance
18 February 2021
Researchers in Southampton, UK and San Francisco have developed a lidar sensor that could pave the way for low-cost, high-performance 3D imaging
Intel RealSense lidar depth camera L515
28 April 2020
Framos now supplies the Intel RealSense lidar depth camera L515
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
EPIC meeting on lidar
Attendees will participate on a discussion focused on the components and assembly processes needed to satisfy current user-driven demands in application fields including automotive, mapping, Earth observation, and security.
The Harvesters (1565), by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Wheat breeding gains from 3D data
24 February 2020
Greg Blackman speaks to Dr Richard Dudley about the National Physical Laboratory’s 3D imaging rig, which will be scanning wheat in crop breeding trials this summer
Intel L515 depth camera
24 February 2020
Framos now includes Intel’s first lidar device – the new L515 depth camera – in its product range
AutoSens Detroit launches programme agenda
14 February 2020
Image processing, active safety and deep learning complete a technically engaging agenda for AutoSens in Detroit for 2020
Gecko-Four polygon scanner for lidar scanning
8 October 2019
Precision Laser Scanning is now introducing its Gecko-Four polygon scanner for lidar scanning from small UAVs and in terrestrial robotics for factory automation
Combined ranging and spectral camera launched at Autosens
18 September 2019
3D sensing company, Outsight, has introduced a 3D semantic camera that combines lidar ranging with hyperspectral material analysis. The camera was introduced at the Autosens conference in Brussels
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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
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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
