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Vision Spectra Newsletter — 3D Matching for Bin Picking, Growth in 3D Imaging, Scaling Up Embedded Vision, and more. (6/24/2021)

Vision Spectra Newsletter — 3D Matching for Bin Picking, Growth in 3D Imaging, Scaling Up Embedded Vision, and more.

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Thursday, June 24, 2021

Quarterly newsletter from Photonics Media featuring the latest advancements in and applications for vision systems – from sensors to software. Manage your Photonics Media membership at Photonics.com/subscribe.

3D Matching and Deep Learning Transform Bin Picking
3D-based matching, a means of determining the exact 3D location of objects, is used in machine vision systems to optimize and automate the handling of items, allowing all types of objects to be accurately identified and located in three-dimensional space. The benefits of the method are most apparent when used for precisely determining the position and orientation of 3D objects, particularly in highly automated manufacturing scenarios involving robotics.

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Embedded Vision Is Set for Application on a Massive Scale
Compact, efficient, and highly application specific, embedded vision technology increasingly offers performance and price points that would have been impossible to achieve only a few years ago. The steady advancement in capabilities has been driven by improvements in all component technologies, including sensors, optics, and processors.

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3D Imaging Sees Growth in Multiple Dimensions
From time to time, we all find ourselves forced to rummage through the cluttered jumble of our home “junk drawer” to dig out a screwdriver, battery, paper clip, or other much-needed object. For humans, this is merely cause for fleeting irritation — but for robots working on a factory floor, this same problem poses a major technological challenge.

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Presentation: “Shrinking Pixels and Growing Sensors: Two Approaches for Increasing Resolution”
Presented by: Greg Hollows, Edmund Optics

The drive for continuous innovation in machine vision results in a constantly increasing demand for higher resolution. Sensor manufacturers can take two main approaches to meet demand: They can either shrink pixels, or increase sensor size. Both options come with tradeoffs, in terms of sensor performance, and with the imaging optics used with them. Because of fundamental limitations in the pixel size that can be successfully used with traditional imaging optics, the sizes of the sensor and mounting interface must increase to accommodate demands for higher resolution.

Greg Hollows, vice president of the Imaging Business Unit at Edmund Optics in Barrington, N.J., goes into the meaning of this trend for lenses; the challenges the trend introduces for builders of machine vision systems; and solutions for getting the most out of sensors and lenses.

The inaugural Vision Spectra Conference runs July 20 - 22. Registration is free for the event, which is offered exclusively online. For more information and registration, please visit www.photonics.com/vsc2021. Continued coverage of this inaugural event will also be available on vision-spectra.com and Photonics.com leading up to the conference.

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.: More Vision News

CEA-Leti Unveils Autonomous Imager
CEA-Leti has unveiled an autonomous imager technology that is able to activate smartphones and small appliances through facial recognition or other specific patterns, using 10,000× less power than similar technologies.

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Graphene-Based Tracking System May Streamline Autonomous Vision

A real-time 3D tracking system developed at the University of Michigan may one day replace lidar and cameras in autonomous technologies. The system combines transparent graphene-based light detectors and advanced neural networks to sense and image scenes in three dimensions.

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Radio Frequency, Vision Combine to Allow Robots to Detect Hidden Objects

MIT researchers combined traditional characteristics of computer vision with radio sensing to enable a robot to detect occluded, or blocked objects. In application, the development could streamline e-commerce fulfillment in warehouses or help a machine detect a particular object in a disordered context.

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