Quarterly newsletter from Photonics Media featuring the latest advancements in and applications for vision systems – from sensors to software.
Running AI at the Edge
More robust computing power, coupled with recent optimizations in how AI networks are processed, has created new opportunities for the use of AI on edge devices, specifically by using convolutional neural networks to classify images into categories, detect objects in images, or find unexpected anomalies in images, such as damage on a produced part. Yet moving AI processing to the edge brings with it new challenges, including making AI systems user-friendly within a manufacturing environment.
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Active Cooling Expands Design Options for Thermal Cameras
No matter the camera technology implemented, it is critical that the operating temperature of sensitive imaging components is maintained below the maximum limit during use to ensure high-quality images. An IR sensor in surveillance cameras, for example, captures infrared light to measure radiation (heat) in the target object and converts it into a visual image. To obtain maximum image quality, IR sensors must be cooled to subzero temperatures to minimize thermal noise, which is the difference between the target object and its surrounding environment. Thermal noise will disrupt and distort the image quality.
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Fully Automated IR Microscope
Seiwa Optical America Inc.
Seiwa Optical's fully automated IR microscope allows the user to inspect sub-surface images including MEMS devices, 3D stacks, incoming wafers, photovoltaic and wafer-level CSP's. New features allow you to take stitching images with different extended exposure, 3D views and measurements.
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Alluxa Ultra Series Filters and Coatings
Alluxa
Alluxa Ultra Series Filters, including Narrowband, Dichroic, UV, IR, and Notch filters, provide the highest performance optical thin film solutions available today. For example, the Ultra Series Flat Top Narrowband filters offer the narrowest bandwidths and squarest filter profiles in the industry.
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Theia's Ultra-Wide No Distortion Lenses
Theia Technologies
Lenses made with Theia’s patented Linear Optical Technology® are designed to cover wide areas without distortion. This innovative technology offers an ultra-wide field of view while using all optical distortion correction to remove barrel distortion without using software...
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Baumer AX. AI Ready Smart Camera with NVIDIA Jetson Modules
Baumer Optronic GmbH
Baumer presents the AX smart cameras, its first industrial-grade smart cameras that combine the market-leading NVIDIA Jetson modules with powerful Sony CMOS sensors to create a compact, flexible, and freely programmable image processing platform for AI applications.
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Mini Lenses for Robotic Precision
Marshall Electronics Inc., Optical Systems
Marshall Electronics' Optical miniature lenses provide precise robotic, machine vision positioning X, Y, Z. Robotic and machine vision products cannot perform to specification without high and consistent optical performance. Our high quality glass element aluminum housing lenses, with and without glass filter produced in...
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Machine Vision
Photonics Media
Machine Vision is a book for anyone designing or selecting machine vision systems, and implementing or considering the use of machine vision for a specific application. This engaging overview is a resource for designers, engineers, researchers, marketers and students looking for a broad survey of advancements in systems,...
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