European Machine Vision Forum Issues Call for Papers

The general assembly of the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) has elected a new board of directors consisting of nine members who will serve three-year terms. New to the board are Austrian...

EMVA has awarded its 2023 Young Professional Award to Pieter Blok, a researcher of deep learning and computer vision at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands. Blok earns the award for...

Ayar Labs, an optical interconnect solutions company, has appointed Pooya Tadayon as its vice president of packaging and test. Tadayon was formerly a fellow and director of assembly and test...

3D manufacturing technology company Visual Components has formed a joint venture with longtime collaborator Mitsubishi Electric. The venture, called ME Industrial Simulation Software, seeks to...

Version 5.3 of the MERLIC machine vision software from MVTec Software GmbH includes a deep learning, object-detection feature and enhanced user-friendliness for beginner and expert users. A...

The GenX320 from Prophesee SA is an event-based vision sensor built for integration into ultralow-power edge AI vision devices. Available in a 3 × 4-mm die size, the 320 × 320 6.3 μm...

The NSC1801 line scan SWIR sensor from New Imaging Technologies (NIT) offers users applications in semiconductor and photovoltaic cell inspection, vegetable inspection, and pharmaceutical inspection....

The NavVis MLX from NavVis is a handheld laser scanning tool for industrial applications. The scanner captures point cloud data with a 32-layer lidar sensor along with 270° and 360° panoramic...

If we were to estimate the output of a CCD or thermal camera, we would typically draw an image over the detectors, aligning the image with the detector axes. We show it this way because it’s...

There are three fundamental properties of light: intensity, wavelength, and polarization. Almost all cameras today are designed for monochrome or color imaging. A monochrome camera is used to measure...

Images are produced by many means: cameras, x-ray machines, electron microscopes, radar and ultrasound. They are used in the entertainment, medical, scientific and business industries; for security...

Image intensification, the basis of night vision, is a complex conversion of energy particles that occurs within a vacuum tube. An image-intensifier system works by collecting photons through an...

The ability to combine more than one spectral band into a single optical filter can enable flexibility of system design and reduce the number of components and the costs needed to achieve a desired...

Lumispot Tech has developed a series of machine vision inspection lasers, primarily encompassing illumination light sources and structured light sources such as line lasers. These are mainly used in...

With the rapid advances in multispectral cameras and lighting, the range of applications continues to expand. As the camera technology improves, multispectral lighting becomes even more important in...

Objective: Produce an Advanced Defect-free Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM). This study shows how a leading assembly and automation equipment integrator used a custom checkerboard target to develop a...

One of the most challenging decisions when designing a scientific imaging setup is determining the best possible CMOS sensor for the job. The origin of this challenge stems from the fact that imaging...

Standards have played and will continue to play a key role in the machine vision industry by ensuring interoperability of components, increasing market size, and shortening the time to market of all...

The vision market has been a tremendous success story over the past decades, with vision technology now of central importance to almost every market vertical. While the vision industry looks beyond...

The publishers of Vision Spectra invite you to attend a free virtual conference spanning three days. The Vision Spectra Conference will feature machine vision market projections, an update on...

Chemical vapor deposition is a process of applying dopants to a glass bait by flame reactions of gaseous compounds. See also outside vapor-phase oxidation; inside vapor-phase oxidation.

In image processing and machine vision, the rate of change of pixel intensity.

Machine vision, also known as computer vision or computer sight, refers to the technology that enables machines, typically computers, to interpret and understand visual information from the world,...

Light present in the environment around a detecting or interpreting device, especially a machine vision system, and generated from outside sources. Such light must be treated as noise by the vision...

A research team in Zurich breaks an ultrashort-pulse laser record. The ETH Zurich team lead by Ursula Keller is behind that breakthrough. PhotonDelta launches a PIC-based contest that could land one...

It's a VISION takeover on Photonics Spectra Now! We're bringing you the latest from VISION 2024 in Stuttgart, Germany while the event is still happening. Machine vision takes center stage as we...

Euresys gives us a tour of their showcase from VISION 2024. Discover Euresys' latest innovations in machine vision, featuring the Coaxlink Quad CXP-12 frame grabber and deep learning technology. This...

Designer and manufacturer of 3D laser triangulation sensors, SmartRay, had on display its new line of ECCO X sensors at VISION. Fast, flexible, and compact, the ECCO X offers speeds up to 40 khz,...

An infrared camera, also known as a thermal imaging camera or IR camera, is an imaging device designed to capture images in the near-infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum (700 - 2500 nm)....

A CMOS image sensor is a type of semiconductor device used to capture visual information and convert it into electrical signals for digital imaging applications. CMOS image sensors are widely...

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Excelitas Technologies® Corp. is a leading industrial technology manufacturer focused on delivering innovative, market-driven photonic solutions to meet the illumination, optical, optronic,...

Teledyne DALSA is a part of Teledyne’s Vision Solutions group and a leader in the design, manufacture, and deployment of digital imaging components for machine vision. Teledyne DALSA image...