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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. But the most revolutionary advance­ments have unfolded in the last category — processors — helping to multiply many of embedded vision’s more recent...
Vision Spectra, Summer 2021
The Vision Spectra Conference
The first-ever Vision Spectra Conference, set for July 20-22, will feature dynamic speakers ranging from upand- coming entrepreneurs to recognized technology innovators. The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) and the Association for...
Photonics Spectra, June 2021
Embedded Vision and AI Transform Retail Shopping
A worldwide pandemic that upended social interactions and economic activity put retailers to the test. In an environment where profit margins are always thin, retailers must meet customer expectations about product availability and service. They...
Vision Spectra, Summer 2021
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...
Vision Spectra, Summer 2021
Neuromorphic Processing Set to Propel Growth in AI
Increasing volumes of data required for smart devices are prompting a reevaluation of computing performance, inspired by the human brain’s capabilities for processing and efficiency. Smart devices must respond quickly, yet efficiently, thereby...
Vision Spectra, Spring 2021
Evaluating Illumination Options for Telecentric Imaging
For machine vision applications requiring telecentric lenses, the proper illumination can be critical to the success of the imaging system. Achieving properly angled, even illumination can greatly affect the contrast of the image and the accuracy of...
Vision Spectra, Spring 2021
3D Vision Bolsters Robotic Bin Picking
For robots, unstructured bin picking has traditionally been challenging, if not effectively impossible. Part of the reason is mechanical, since getting a robotic arm into a bin and securing its grip on a part to pick can be difficult. Another...
Vision Spectra, Spring 2021
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. Traditionally, vision technology has performed parts...
Vision Spectra, Winter 2020
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 to increased absenteeism. These are a few of the...
Vision Spectra, Winter 2020
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 are working to provide multispectral solutions for...
Photonics Spectra, June 2021
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 industries and applications has generated an...
Vision Spectra, Winter 2020
Coherent Sensing Holds Promise for Machine Vision
Supply chain disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic have been a wake-up call for most, resulting in the acceleration of the onshoring trend started by the U.S.-China tensions. Offsetting higher wage structures with automation is key to a sustained...
Vision Spectra, Autumn 2020
Optimal Defect Detection with Deep Learning
Technologies based on artificial intelligence are used in many industries today. For example, deep learning methods based on convolutional neural networks are used in machine vision, making it possible to detect and localize objects and defects in a...
Vision Spectra, Autumn 2020
Vision Systems Perform Vital Checks on Medical Devices
Medical device manufacturing encompasses products that go inside the body, such as catheters and artificial joints. Other manufactured goods in this category include external devices that measure vital signs and other medically important parameters,...
Vision Spectra, Autumn 2020
Hyperspectral Imaging Discerns Authenticity of Artwork
Inauthentic artwork is a significant problem within the art world. According to the Fine Arts Expert Institute, as many as half of the pieces in the art market are forgeries, equaling roughly $60 billion in inauthentic work. Current authentication...
Photonics Spectra, December 2021
Robot-Based Bin Picking Set to Transform Manufacturing Sector
As the Fourth Industrial Revolution nears, companies all over the world will need to prepare for the immense changes coming their way. Machine vision, used in combination with artificial intelligence and deep learning, strives to make manufacturing...
Vision Spectra, Summer 2020
Industrial Machine Vision Adds Depth
Adding imaging depth to vision systems can improve inspection performance, enhance pick-and-place operations, and help vision-guided robots do a better job of avoiding objects. With falling prices and rising performance, various forms of 3D vision...
Vision Spectra, Summer 2020
Calculating Lens Resolution with Precision
There are many different ways to judge the performance of a lens, depending on the application: weight, size, distortion, transmission, and resolution. Of these characteristics, resolution is often the primary cost driver for lenses, with...
Vision Spectra, Summer 2020
Anomaly Detection Expands Use of AI in Defect Inspections
The manufacturing industry is being turned on its head as AI and deep learning transform the way goods are manufactured and inspected. The combination of software, new deep learning techniques, the power of parallel processing, and easy-to-use tools...
Vision Spectra, Summer 2020
Advancements in Telecentric Technology
The discipline of machine vision encompasses imaging technologies and methods to perform automatic inspection and analysis in various applications, such as verification, measurement, and process control. Driven by trends in Industry 4.0, machine...
Vision Spectra, Spring 2020
Consumer Electronics Inspection Put to the Test
Every year, smartphones, TVs, tablets, and computers get more capable in terms of screen resolution and processing power. Better consumer electronics and more demand have led to volume increases. According to an October 2019 report from Kenneth...
Vision Spectra, Spring 2020
Standards Bridge the Gap
New production trends such as IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) and the smart factory are changing value chains, increasing efficiency with a greater number of interconnections and enhanced standardization. Accompanying technologies —...
Vision Spectra, Spring 2020
Advancements in 3D Vision, Software Bolster Bin Picking
Industrial robots are the key element in automating processes throughout the manufacturing sector, with their numbers rising globally each year. In the U.S., for example, their numbers reached 200 robots per 10,000 employees in 2017, ranking seventh...
Vision Spectra, Spring 2020
Deep Learning Put to the Test
Recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have prompted scores of companies to invest in this type of software. This bodes well for the vision industry, as the technological leap is needed. But how will this purchase affect users at the...
Vision Spectra, Winter 2019
Hyperspectral Imaging Finds Its Niche
Hyperspectral imaging has a long history of successful applications in the field of remote sensing, but only recently has it matured enough to find success in industrial settings, including applications in pharmaceuticals, food production,...
Vision Spectra, Winter 2019
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