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A simple setup provides backlighting for tight spaces
The Backlight fluoreSheet is used to provide affordable, indirect illumination for machine vision applications. Unlike other technologies, it doesn´t require power input. A backlighting effect is created when an orange…
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Fiber Mini SFF for GigE Vision
OptoMedia’s ultra-compact Mini SFF brings reliable, high-speed fiber connectivity to next-generation industrial cameras.
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Novel 3D camera with 180° opening angle
The 3D camera technology HemiStereo enables for the first time a hemispherical depth detection. The entire half space in front of the camera is measured three-dimensionally, which corresponds to an…
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Autonomous Machine Vision as a self-experiment
Visual inspection in parts manufacturing is expensive, complicated and error-prone – this is the general consensus. Inspekto from Heilbronn has made it its business to change this and promises a…
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At the Embedded World 2020 the panel discussion ‘Embedded Vision everywhere’ took place. Users (Stil, CST) and manufacturers (Allied Vision, Congatec, Cubemos, Vision Components) discussed trends and developments and the role of AI. (Image: TeDo Verlag GmbH)AI and Embedded Vision Trends of Embedded World 2020
Embedded World 2020 was affected by the cancellation of numerous companies due to the coronavirus. Nevertheless, there were numerous interesting new products for embedded vision and AI to be seen…
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The fourth Conference on Hyperspectral Imaging in Industry (chii) will take place on 27 and 28 May 2020 in Graz. (Bild: Perception Park GmbH)Hyperspectral imaging is conquering the industry
Hyperspectral-based imaging is establishing itself in ever new industrial fields of application. How does this technology work and where can it be used?
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Standardization Initiative Embedded Vision Interface (emVision)
Development of embedded vision technologies is not solely triggered by machine vision players but also by consumer driven application fields such as smart phones. This creates the need to adapt…
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Ethics and Explainability related to Artificial Intelligence
Since today’s artificial intelligence does not develop an awareness of what it learns, AI in principle is completely objective. Therefore the risks of using AI are related to the data…
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(Image: LMI Technologies Inc. / IFM Electronic GmbH / Sick AG / Baumer Group / Hema Electronic GmbH)The Top 5 Machine Vision Products of the SPS Fair
At the SPS trade fair in Nuremberg (Germany) at the end of November, the main focus was on automation. However, there were also numerous interesting innovations on the subject of…
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Figure 1 | By processing a thin-film multilayer stack with photoactive layer sensitive in the infrared range (r.), on top of a Silicon readout circuitry (ROIC), Imec creates an IR-sensitive CMOS imager (l.) that’s compatible with mass manufacturing. (Image: Imec)Si-based CMOS imagers to detect SWIR wavelengths above 1µm
Thanks to a cross-departmental effort involving material development, semiconductor processing skills, system-level design and much more, imec has realized breakthroughs in the capabilities of silicon-based CMOS imagers to detect short-wave…












