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Vision Spectra - Winter 2020


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For Smart Factories, a Vision of Success Smart factories require collecting information about products, processes, and people to achieve highly automated manufacturing. In this undertaking, machine vision will supply key data....
AI + 3D Machine Vision Transforms Depalletization Manually offloading pallets requires scores of employees to work nonstop. Extensive job and safety training is required, and because the task is physically demanding, injuries often result, leading...
Multispectral Lighting: A Practical Option for Difficult Industrial Imaging Situations During the past few years, color and spectral imaging approaches have become more prevalent in machine vision system design. Today, machine vision lighting companies and industrial camera designers...
Biological Systems Inspire Image Preprocessing Solutions Data, as the saying goes, is king. But as any chess player knows, the king without his minions is hamstrung by limited mobility. The ubiquitous deployment of CMOS and CCD imagers across a range of...
Editorial
Better days ahead As news of the first vaccinations in Europe and North America break at press time, there’s renewed hope that the pandemic’s end is in sight for 2021. This is good news for the vision market, which — like all the major sectors of the global economy — has been adversely affected by COVID-19. Look for a rebound in 2021 and beyond, according to Research and Markets. Its report...
Vision in Action
High-Speed Cameras Accelerate Cancer Screenings Finding a solitary cancer cell in the midst of millions of healthy ones is no small feat. But that’s what researcher Andrew Filby does, thanks to a camera system that is capable of streaming at...
Spotting Defects in Solar Panels in the Field Falling prices for solar panels, along with the desires of dozens of countries to reach renewable energy goals, led to an estimated 114.5 GW of global photovoltaic (PV) installations in 2019,...
The News Wire
A3 Postpones Automate until 2022 The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) announced it will postpone the Automate show until June 6-9, 2022. The show will take place at the TCF Center in Detroit, Mich. A3 additionally announced...
HD Vision Systems Voted Winner of VISION Start-up 2020 An all-virtual audience selected HD Vision Systems as the winner of the Vision Startup Pitch Session held Nov. 11. The Heidelberg, Germany-based company now qualifies to take part in the VISION...
Basler Releases Q3 Earnings, Expects to Exceed 2019 Revenue by End of 2020 Basler AG reported revenue of €40.3 million for the quarter ending Sept. 30, down 3% from the previous year’s third quarter. Sales revenue for the nine-month period ending Sept. 30...
Demand for Consumer Tech, E-Commerce Propel Cognex to 'Fantastic Quarter' Strong earnings in consumer technology, logistics, and e-commerce, highlighted by Greater-China-based customers generating a three-month, year-over-year revenue increase of more than 150%, propelled...
AI, Robotics Spinoff Takes Aim at Road Maintenance The University of Liverpool, in partnership with A2E Ltd., an electronic hardware and software design company, formed Robotiz3d Ltd. The joint venture spinoff company will commercialize patented...
Wearable Camera Devices Enable Human Motion Capture, Bare-hand Interactions Researchers from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, the University of St. Andrews, and the University of New South Wales have developed a wrist-worn device that is able to...
System Captures 3D Images of Internal Defects in Solid Structures A system developed by researchers at Tohoku University captures 3D images enabling the detection of defects in metallic structures. The technology, called the piezoelectric and laser ultrasonic...
Army Robot Detects, Shares Environmental Changes with Human Teammate in Real Time The robotic component of a human-robot team designed by the U.S. Army is capable of detecting physical changes in 3D and sharing the information it collects with a human in real time. Augmented...
NSF Grant to Advance Sensing and Imaging Technologies for Precision Agriculture With a five-year, $26 million grant, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has established the Engineering Research Center for the Internet of Things for Precision Agriculture (ERC IoT4Ag). The...
Real-Time Imaging Technology Can Help to Prevent Dust Explosions Researchers at Purdue University have built an imaging application to detect suspended dust concentrations that pose a risk of exploding in agricultural, powder-handling, and manufacturing settings....
Army Researchers Advance Drone Swarm Learning Capabilities U.S. Army researchers have developed a reinforcement learning approach that will allow swarms of unmanned aerial and ground vehicles more consistent performance when executing mission objectives....
Scalable Approach to Lidar Could Propel Autonomous Vehicles, Other Tech A silicon chip with a serpentine optical phased array (SOPA), developed by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder, could improve the resolution and scanning speed of lidar systems while...
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Item Detection System The 3D-A1000 Item Detection System from Cognex Corp. is a compact and industrial 3D and 2D motion-capable smart camera used for identifying presence or absence of objects on sorters. 3D...
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3D Cameras Ensenso N40 and N45 3D cameras from IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH are designed for 3D applications in robotics and automated series production. A fiber-reinforced plastic housing results...
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Lidar Sensor The Pandar128 lidar sensor from Hesai Technology is designed for automotive volume production. With a high horizontal resolution and increased data points, the sensor features an IP6K9K rating...
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Computer Vision Hardware Camera The OpenNCC Open Neuro-Compute Camera from EyeCloud.AI Inc. is a computer vision hardware platform for developers. Designed for deep-learning vision system developers that accelerate field...
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Camera Link High-Speed Cameras The Falcon4-CLHS M4480 and M4400 cameras from Teledyne DALSA are Camera Link HR devices based on the e2v Lince 11.2-MP CMOS monochrome sensors. The devices were engineered for industrial...
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CMOS Cameras Basler AG has expanded its ace 2 camera series with 24 models that feature the Sony Pregius S IMX540, IMX541, and IMX542 sensors. With a small pixel size, backside-illuminated (BSI) structure,...
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CMOS Line-Scan Cameras The SW-8000Q-10GE and SW-8000Q-SFP prism-based line scan cameras from JAI A/S are part of the Sweep+ series of CMOS cameras. Offering 8K-pixel resolution/line, the models are equipped with four...
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MultiSensor Vision System The AVX550 Multi-Sensor Vision System from the L.S. Starrett Co. is a large-format, dual optical device with touch-probe capability to measure parts with a diverse range of feature sizes and...
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Hyperspectral SWIR Camera The SWIR-640 hyperspectral camera from HySpex offers 640 spatial pixels and 360 spectral bands, maintaining high spectral fidelity and optical quality. The device can be used in all field,...
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Machine Vision Software HALCON 20.11 machine vision software from MVTec Software GmbH feature improved and optimized technologies for code reading, optical character recognition, 3D, deep learning, and more. The...
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CoaXPress Machine Vision Cameras The EoSens 2.0CXP2 and the EoSens 1.1CXP2 CoaXPress 2.0 machine vision cameras from Mikrotron GmbH feature high speeds. The 2.0CXP2 model features a 2-MP LUX19HS image sensor with 10-µm...
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GigE Vision Line-Scan Cameras The updated FS series of GigE Vision® line scan cameras from Omron Automation Americas provides Power over Ethernet functionality and Precision Time Protocol technology. Available in 2, 4,...
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MultiChannel Flash Machine Vision Cameras The allPIXA evo line scan 10-GigE cameras from Chromasens GmbH feature multi-channel flash, simultaneously triggering up to four different controller channels synchronized to the flash line. ...
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InGaAs-Based Camera The Owl 640T InGaAs-based camera from Raptor Photonics Ltd. can be integrated into electro-optical systems. The camera features a 640 × 512 resolution and a 10 × 10-µm pixel...
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