Active Silicon turns 30 in September. Greg Blackman speaks to founder Colin Pearce (below) on building the company and the importance of FPGA technology
Greg Blackman charts the meteoric rise of Chinese firm Hikvision, one of the top suppliers of video surveillance equipment that has now turned its sights on industrial vision
Greg Blackman looks back at what the UK vision industry was like 25 years ago, when the UK Industrial Vision Association was founded
Greg Blackman speaks to Guy Lavi at Israeli firm Volume Elements, a company that specialises in developing vision algorithms
Cognex has strengthened its position in 3D vision with a number of recent company acquisitions in the area, as Greg Blackman discovers
Matthew Dale speaks to Specim about the burgeoning industrial spectral imaging camera market
Smart Vision Lights has built its company, originally from designing custom illumination, as Greg Blackman finds out
Greg Blackman meets Alkeria, an Italian firm with a pedigree in custom embedded vision projects that’s recently expanded into building off-the-shelf cameras
Midwest Optical Systems, a specialist in machine vision filters and other imaging solutions, will soon be celebrating its 30th year. Beth Harlen reports
As a middle child, Erik Widding is used to going his own way. He speaks to Beth Harlen about why his company, Birger Engineering, is proud to do the same
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
