Launch of inVISION TV From now on, various new products will be presented on the YouTube Channel inVISION TV at regular intervals. You can find our first video with three very interesting products under the following link...
MV Forum at Sony Stuttgart with 150 participants Almost 150 participants attended the 73rd Heidelberg Image Processing Forum, which this time took place at Sony in Stuttgart and focused on image sensor technology. Among others, Prof. Dr. Theuwissen presented the possibilities for CMOS through Deep Trench Isolation, Sony presented future polarization chips...
New Center for Optics Production in Aachen With a competence center in Aachen, the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology networks companies and research into a new photonics location. In the 'Aachen Center for Optics Production' (ACOP), the researchers are pooling their expertise with the regional optical industry. Eleven companies have agreed to...
New Senior Director Industrial metrology at Toptica From October 1, Dr. Holger Quast will assume strategic and operational management of the Biophotonics, Life Sciences and Industrial Metrology divisions of the technology company Toptica. In the past, Quast was Managing Director of Toptica's long-standing partner SynView and Venture Director of Siemens...
Cooperation Pleora and Mission Control Space Services Pleora Technologies and Mission Control Space Services have announced a strategic partnership. The companies will combine their respective expertise in real-time sensor networks and AI for robot control and automation. The goal is to provide enhanced driver support in local situational awareness (LSA)...
Advanced 3D Image Processing Workshop The workshop 'Advanced 3D Image Processing and Analysis with Amira Software' will take place at the University of Freiburg from 15 to 16 October. The workshop includes introductions, lectures and hands-on sessions on selected topics and functionalities of Thermo Fisher Scientific's Amira software. The software offers a...
W3+ Fair Rheintal with successful start From 18 to 19 September, the W3+ Fair Rheintal took place in the Dornbirn exhibition centre in Austria. After six events in Wetzlar, it expanded for the first time into the four-country region on the Rhine. More than 100 exhibitors and partners from the optics, photonics, electronics and mechanics sectors as well as...
Creaform appoints new DACH Sales Manager Creaform has appointed Stefan Hoheisel as its new Sales Manager for the DACH region. Based in Stuttgart, Hoheisel will be responsible for developing and managing the sales strategy as well as coaching and managing the sales team in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Previously, he worked as a sales engineer at...
GigESim is a software package that allows end-users and developers to turn their computer or embedded system into a set of virtual GigE Vision and GenICam compliant cameras
AI Detects Facial Anomalies The use of automated face recognition for personal identification continues to grow. But this authentication method is vulnerable to morphing attacks. A single passport featuring a photograph manipulated this way can then be used by two different people. Together with their partners, Fraunhofer research teams are developing a...
Jencolor Spectronet Lectures online The nearly 50 videos with the presentations of the Jencolor Spectronet Collaboration Conference, which took place in Jena at the end of August, are now also available online.
Trainings: Machine Learning in Halcon As an official distributor for Halcon and Merlic, The Imaging Source Europe offers both standard training courses and customer-specific training courses for the image processing libraries. (Image: MVTec) These include an introduction to classical machine learning problems and the solution of image processing tasks. The...
Stemmer publishes final business figures 2018/19 Stemmer Imaging published its final figures for 2018/2019 on September 26. The company's sales increased by 8.3 % from € 100.6 million to € 109.0 million in the period from July 01, 2018 to June 30, 2019. Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounted to € 10.0...
Evolem acquires RX Solutions Evolem acquires a majority stake in RX Solutions, a computer tomography (CT) manufacturer and service provider. RX Solutions' CT systems, which in the past were sold to universities and research centres, are now increasingly being used in industries such as the automotive industry, the aerospace industry, medical technology,...
BallerTV buys FieldVision BallerTV, a provider of amateur live sports coverage, has acquired FieldVision, the developer of a compact, mobile and fully autonomous solution for live streaming sports. No financial terms were disclosed. FieldVision uses artificial intelligence and computer-aided vision to autonomously film any team sport.
SAIC Capital invests in CalmCar CalmCar, a Chinese provider of intelligent vehicle assistance systems, announced today that it has raised approximately US$14.1 million in an A2 Series financing round. The investors are SAIC Capital, an investment subsidiary of the Chinese automobile manufacturer SAIC Motor, and the Beijing Connected Vehicles Development...
The Teledyne Flir TG54-2 and TG56-2 IR pyrometers feature a larger measurement temperature range and memory compared to their predecessors.
Sick expands its Ruler3000 family with the launch of three compact cameras, as well as an additional mid-range variant.
The APDIS Intelligent Quality Stations with Nikon’s Laser Radar were developed for the fully automatic inspection of body shells and components.
The colorSensor CFO250 by Micro Epsilon is a high-performance controller for precise color detection in industrial measurement tasks.
Speck is an event-driven neuromorphic vision system-on-chip (SoC), combining the iniVation Dynamic Vision Sensor with SynSense spiking neural network technology.
With hardware and software compatibility Adlink’s portable GPU accelerator Pocket AI provides plug&play scalability from development to deployment for AI developers, professional graphics users and embedded industrial applications.
Phytec’s embedded vision cameras are now also available with control for Corning Varioptic liquid lenses.
The protective housings of the new Stingray series by AutoVimation offer all-round protection with a low dead weight for camera types up to 75x75mm cross-section.
A new backlight by Phlox makes it possible to create any lighting pattern.
Excelitas complements its Optem Fusion microscopy platform with a motorized focus, LED illumination components and a plug-and-play controller with a graphical user interface.
The 8K line scan camera (8192 x 2) MV-CL082-91FM by Hikvision (sales Maxxvision) with 10GigE interface supports transmissions via the 20G fiber optic connection with a line rate of up to 200kHz.
The Imaging Source is adding the Onsemi AR0521 sensor to its 37 series industrial and board-level cameras.
