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Vision Spectra - Winter 2024


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AI Assists Vision-Guided Robots in Food and Beverage Inspection For decades, machine vision has helped robotic systems surpass limited, rote applications, enabling a wide range of pick-and-place applications across industries. One of these industries is the food and beverage industry, but the natural variability of products in this sector — especially proteins, fruits, and vegetables — presents challenges for this technology. Traditional...
Thermal Industrial Inspection is Heating Up Falling prices, rising resolutions, better analysis algorithms, and increased operational efficiency are expanding the use of thermal imaging in industrial inspections. These innovations are leading...
GigE Vision 3.0 Pushes Imaging Technology to New Heights The technical specifications of cutting-edge image sensors and state-of-the-art smart cameras mean absolutely nothing without the ability to get vast amounts of high-speed image data from point A to...
Editorial
Robotic vision and AI spur growth The global machine vision market is set to reach $11.6 billion in 2024, nearly doubling to $22.6 billion by 2032. This translates to a compound annual growth rate of 8.7%, according to a report issued last month by Fortune Business Insights. This is good news for an industry that has seen its share of recent challenges during the last 12 to 18 months, especially in Europe. As we’ve reported...
Vision in Action
High-Speed Machine Vision Inspects Additive Manufacturing Defects Powder bed laser melting (PBLM) is a branch of additive manufacturing in which a preprocessed material is selectively melted layer by layer in the form of a powder bed to produce desired workpieces from a 3D model data set. The energy required for this is selectively introduced into the process zone using laser beam sources, which melts the powder material to create layers of the resulting part....
The News Wire
Meridian Innovation Secures $12.5M to Accelerate Growth Meridian Innovation Pte Ltd, a developer of thermal imaging sensors, has raised $12.5 million in to scale its operations, accelerate product development, and expand its reach into broader consumer...
VDMA Predicts 10% Drop in Machine Vision Sales The Machinery and Equipment Manufacturers Association (VDMA) expects a nominal decline in sales of 10% for the image processing industry in Germany this year, according to a release from the...
Toshiba Teli Corporation Takes Home 2024 VISION Award Toshiba Teli Corporation has won the 2024 VISION award. The company earned the title, presented at VISION 2024 in Stuttgart, Germany, for its OneShotBRDF integrated surface flaw detection scope...
Lynred Acquires New Imaging Technologies Infrared sensors developer Lynred has acquired New Imaging Technologies (NIT), a Paris-based developer of SWIR imaging modules and sensors. In a strategic move to consolidate its leadership in...
iiM GmbH Joins Exaktera Family of Vision Companies Via its holding company Exaktera, private equity investment firm Union Park Capital has acquired iiM GmbH, a manufacturer of LEDs for machine vision applications. Terms of the deal were not...
Neural Field Network Reconstructs High-Resolution from Low-Resolution Images Deep learning (DL) has significantly transformed the field of computational imaging, offering solutions to enhance performance and address a variety of challenges. Traditional methods often rely on...
SICK, Endress+Hauser to Form Joint Venture SICK AG, a sensor-based solutions provider, and Endress+Hauser AG, a measurement and automation technology company, have signed a joint memorandum of understanding (MoU) as part of a larger unsigned...
System Mimics Compound Eye for High-Sensitive Robotic Vision A research team at the School of Engineering of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed a novel artificial compound eye system that promises greater cost-efficiency...
3D Machine Vision Startup Luxolis Expands Operations Luxolis, a 3D machine vision startup, plans to open an R&D center in Chuncheon, South Korea. The facility will serve as a hub for advanced R&D for Luxolis' capabilities in AI-driven 3D vision and...
Soft Robotics Divests Soft Gripping Business, Becomes Oxipital AI Soft Robotics Inc., a provider of soft gripping, 3D vision, and artificial intelligence solutions for industrial automation, has divested its gripper business assets to the Schmalz Group for an...
TKH Group Acquires Liberty Robotics TKH Group has acquired Liberty Robotics Inc., a 3D vision guidance systems provider for robotics applications. Liberty Robotics’ systems enable precise end-of-arm guidance for applications...
Smart Vision Lights CEO Dave Spaulding to Retire Smart Vision Lights has named Steve VanderZwaag, currently vice president of engineering, to succeed Dave Spaulding as president and CEO. Spaulding will retire at the end of 2024, with VanderZwaag...
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Quantum SWIR Camera The Q.Fly from Quantum Solutions in collaboration with TOPODRONE is a quantum dot SWIR camera designed for UAV drone platforms. The camera uses a built in Linux computer for facilitating camera...
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AI Analysis Software pylon AI from Basler is AI image analysis software for object detection, classification, and semantic and instance segmentation applications. The software uses image analysis functions with...
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Industrial Inspection Camera The Sonic 9K608-DUV from Prodrive Technologies is an industrial line scan inspection camera for end-to-end optical inspection. Utilizing a BSI sensor to achieve high quantum efficiency across a broad...
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