Lakesight appoints new CCO Lakesight has appointed Dipl. Ing. Henrik Ilsby to Chief Commercial Officer EMEA for the Lakesight Machine Vision entities Allied Vision Technologies, Chromasens, Mikrotron, NET, SVS-Vistek and Tattile. He is working for the recently acquired company SVS-Vistek in the same role, and this will be expanded to all Lakesight...
$20m for AI Based Food Waste Solution Winnow has secured a total of $20m in the last month. The London firm offers AI powered technology to help chefs automate waste tracking. The tech works by taking photos of wasted food as it's thrown away and uses the images to recognise what has been discarded.
1,800 visitors at TestXpo 2019 From October 14 to 17, the TestXpo trade fair for testing technology took place at ZwickRoell in Ulm with over 1,800 participants from more than 50 countries. The next TestXpo is already scheduled for the year 2020, from October 12 to 15.
DGQ Quality Day For the sixth time, the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Qualität e.V. (German Society for Quality) is hosting the DGQ Quality Day on November 28 at the House of Logistics and Mobility (HOLM), Frankfurt/Main. This year's motto is 'Rethinking Quality Management!' A varied programme consisting of numerous interactive and creative formats offers...
New Coherix Board of Directors Coherix announces that James K. West, previous Board Member, is re-joining the Board of Directors, effective immediately. West is the founder and past president of The Machine Vision Association and former Director of both Robotics International and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).
Vision-Standard News from IVSM The International Vision Standards Meeting (IVSM) took place in Stresa (Italy) at the beginning of October. Chris Beynon, CTO of Active Silicon and Technical Chair for CoaXPress, summarized some of the results for USB3 Vision, GigE Vision, CoaXPress and GenICam in a short article.
Cognex Acquires Sualab Cognex announces the acquisition of Sualab, a leading Korean-based developer of vision software using deep learning for industrial applications. The purchase price is $195m. Sualab was co-founded in 2013 by Song Kiyoung, who will join Cognex. The addition of the new engineering team and intellectual property is expected to enhance...
Matrox Training Design Assistant Rauscher is hosting the Matrox Vision Academy's Design Assistant Developer Training from November 25 to 27 in Amsterdam. During three days, Matrox application engineers and software developers will explain how image processing applications can be quickly implemented without traditional programming using the Matrox Design...
VDMA Exchange Vision System Integration The Robotics + Automation Association wants to offer its members a platform for exchange on topics such as AI, OPC UA, Robot Vision, virtual commissioning, etc. Four best-practice reports from the membership will be followed by discussion and exchange. For the kick-off on 15 November at the VDMA in Frankfurt, four...
inVISION News TV: Focus on CT In the new episode of inVISION News TV we present three interesting novelties from the field of computer tomography (CT). These come from Volume Graphics, Werth Messtechnik and BAM (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing). We wish you a lot of fun with the three-minute video.
New Head of Zeiss Research Microscopy Solutions Effective October 1, Dr. Michael Albiez became Head of the Research Microscopy Solutions strategic business unit (RMS SBU) at Zeiss and, with this appointment, a Member of the Management Team for the Zeiss Industrial Quality & Research (IQR) segment. He has also been appointed Managing Director of Carl Zeiss...
25 Years of AIM-D AIM-D e.V. - the AIM-Inc.-Chapter for Germany, Austria and Switzerland - was founded 25 years ago and since then has been intensively and successfully taking care of the needs of the AutoID/AIDC industry. Today, AIM-D has over 120 members in the DACH region.
Kick-off for AI Standardization Roadmap During the kick-off event of the Artificial Intelligence Standardization Roadmap at the BMWi, DIN and VDE|DKE will be discussing the topic together with around 300 experts and interested parties. In seven workshops, the course will then be set for further work on the standardization roadmap, which will be presented...
Sebastien Dignard is New President of Ienso Sebastien Dignard has been appointed president of Ienso, a leading provider of embedded imaging and wireless technologies for consumer and commercial applications. The company's solutions are increasingly being integrated into consumer and commercial products including home automation, automotive, drones,...
Financing for Medical Startup After a mid-six-figure seed round in spring 2018, the Vienna startup Contextflow now received a further investment. Founded in 2016 as a spin-off of MedUni Vienna and TU Vienna, Contextflow specializes in deep learning based image analysis in radiology. Doctors can use the software to make more accurate diagnoses - currently...
Hummingbird Receives $10m Funding UK remote sensing startup Hummingbird has closed its Series B funding round on $10m. Hummingbird, founded in London in 2016, uses drones, AI and satellite imagery to produce high-resolution maps that help farmers forecast crop stress, pinpoint disease and weeds, and predict yields within 24 hours.
Sony recently released a 247MP rolling shutter CMOS image sensor available in monochrome (IMX811-AAMR) and color (IMX811-AAQR) variants which have a 64.84mm diagonal, a square pixel array, as well as 5.3fps.
The NXT malibu camera from IDS enables AI-based image processing, video compression and streaming in full 4K sensor resolution at 30fps – directly in and out of the camera.
BitFlow has integrated the Nvidia Jetson AGX Orin module with its CoaXPress (CXP) frame grabbers.
The Terascope from the Helmut Fischer Group enables the layer thickness measurement of organic single and multiple layers on any base material with terahertz.
The Computer Vision Toolbox in the 2024a (R2024a) release of the Matlab and Simulink product families from MathWorks provides algorithms, functions and apps for the design and testing of computer vision, 3D vision and video editing systems.
Emergent Vision introduces the expanded real-time 3D/4D reconstruction capabilities within the companie’s eCapture Pro software.
Alkeria’s latest addition to its Celera P camera series, a polarization camera to use dual-USB3 technology, features the 12MP Sony Pregius IMX 253 sensor.
Cognex Corporation’s In-Sight L38 3D Vision System combines AI, 2D, and 3D vision technologies to solve a range of inspection and measurement applications.
The 10GigE camera MV-CH1510-10FM from Hikrobot (distributor Maxxvision) uses Sony’s IMX411 rolling shutter CMOS to transmit images with a resolution of 151MP and 6.2fps.
Teledyne Flir IIS announced SightBase – a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform – that accelerates the design-in cycles for imaging systems.
Aesub offers the Aesub Infinity endless points for 3D scanning of very large components that are quickly placed on large surfaces from the roll.
Hamamatsu Photonics Europe C16741-40U is an InGaAs camera with sensitivity in the visible to near infrared region from 400 to 1700nm.
