Sony has announced three new industrial camera modules, along with an Nvidia Jetson SDK for its XCG-CP510 polarised machine vision module
Greg Blackman speaks to Kieran Edge at the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, about new vision projects and the presentation he is to give for UKIVA's vision technology hub, to be broadcast on 14 May
IDS now offers the IMX250MZR 5 MP sensor from Sony with integrated on-pixel polarisers in the uEye CP camera family
Polar I is developing a capture technology that is capable of detecting defects down to 40µm using multiple states of polarisation
The Imaging Source has announced two polarisation cameras featuring Sony’s Polarsens 5.1 megapixel global-shutter CMOS image sensors
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Scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have developed a compact snapshot polarisation camera based on diffraction gratings containing nanoscale structures
JAI has launched a second version of its Go series 5-megapixel polarisation camera
Matthew Dale explores how machine vision integrators are responding to new demands in the pharmaceutical industry
Sony Europe’s Image Sensing Solutions has announced the completion and availability of a windscreen glare-removal application for ITS applications via the XPL-SDKW software development kit for its XCG-CP510 polarised camera modules
Sony Europe’s Image Sensing Solutions has released a software development kit for camera modules based on Pregius IMX250MZR polarised image sensors
MVTec’s Halcon software library includes a deep learning OCR tool with pre-trained fonts from a wide range of industries. Credit: MVTec
Matthew Dale explores vision solutions for code reading and inspection in pharmaceutical production
Engineers at KYB in front of a pick-and-place solution for handling steel metal cylinders. Credit: Pickit
Car manufacturing has been hit hard by Covid-19, but the need for automation on production lines has not diminished, as Greg Blackman finds out
A point cloud of a National Research Council Canada artefact superimposed on a CAD model. Credit: NIST
How do you choose a 3D vision system for a robot cell? Geraldine Cheok and Kamel Saidi at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the USA discuss an initiative to define standards for industrial 3D imaging
SWIR imaging can show bruising in fruit that wouldn't be evident with a visible camera. Credit: Sony
Edmund Optics’s Thomas Armspach-Young and Boris Lange consider the optics needed to get the best out of Sony's new short-wave infrared image sensors
What kind of economic development do you expect during and after this crisis?
Findings from a two-part survey, conducted by the European Machine Vision Association, on the effects the Covid-19 pandemic could have on the machine vision industry
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Christoph Hellmann Santos, of the ROS Industrial Consortium Europe and Fraunhofer IPA, explains why more industrial users are now building robots through the open source software platform, Robot Operating System
