Conceptual image. Credit: Canon
Rugby fans are now able to watch highlights from the Rugby World Cup, currently taking place in Japan, from angles and viewpoints not possible with conventional cameras, thanks to a multi-camera system from Canon
In the run up to the Fifa World Cup, Greg Blackman examines how video analysis is used to improve the performance of top athletes
A vision analysis system from Kinatrax has helped keep baseball pitchers from the Chicago Cubs' team that won the 2016 World Series injury-free. Greg Blackman reports from a talk Steven Cadavid at Kinatrax gave at the Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara
With the football World Cup in Brazil soon to kick off, Tom Eddershaw finds that imaging technologies are now an integral part of maximising sporting achievement
Systems developed for applications such as inspecting electronic components are finding their way into sports coverage, real estate, marketing and gaming. Siân Harris finds out why
From generating statistics on Germany's top football matches to helping runners avoid injury, imaging plays an increasingly important role in sport, as Greg Blackman discovers
Rob Coppinger exposes the sports world's latest imaging technology for capturing everything from athletes at a standing start to those running at high speed round a track
Greg Blackman on the use of imaging in sport, from ball-tracking technology used by commentators to advanced sport science research in training top athletes
Machine vision suppliers are eyeing up high-speed imaging, which can resolve events that are too quick to see, according to Stephen Mounsey
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
