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
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
Keely Portway finds out how vision technology is playing a role in medical diagnosis
Bob McCurrach, director of standards development at AIA, updates on the progress being made in GigE Vision
Following speaking at Embedded Vision Europe, Pierre Gutierrez, lead machine learning researcher at Scortex, writes about the challenges of deploying deep learning on the factory floor
Takashi Someda, CTO at Hacarus, on the advantages of sparse modelling AI tools
Depth map from the SceneScan. Credit: Nerian Vision
Dr Konstantin Schauwecker, CEO of Nerian Vision, describes the firm’s stereo vision sensor for fast depth perception with FPGAs
MVDK evaluation board with MIPI CSI-2 sensor and CXP interface board. Credit: Euresys
Greg Blackman finds that purchasing IP cores for FPGAs is one way to reduce time-to-market for camera production
