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Vision Spectra: Autumn 2019

Vision Spectra
 Autumn 2019


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FEATURES
Analyzing 3D Data for AI-Powered Robotic Automation There’s increasing interest in deep learning for 2D images, from facial recognition to manufacturing, spurred by the promise of the IIoT. And today, a growing faction believes employing...
Vision-Guided Systems Bring Precision to Fluid Dispensing Robotic fluid dispensing is essential for applications that require extremely accurate and repeatable fluid deposit placement, complex dispensing patterns, and/or high-volume throughput. The precise...
For Carmakers, Inspection Flexibility Makes the Difference Building a car is a complex process, and it’s getting more complex every year. There are thousands of parts to inspect for quality and conformance to ever tighter specifications. What’s...
Fixing Image Warping Caused by Heat-Induced Turbulence It is well known from astronomical imaging that numerous atmospheric conditions and weather effects have an impact on image quality. This is caused by local changes in the refractive index of the air...
EDITORIAL
Where AI meets the real world Inventor and technologist Haresh Sippy urged those seeking to solve thorny problems to “tackle the root cause, not the effect.” That thinking is at the heart of several of our features this issue, beginning with the cover story, “Analyzing 3D Data for AI-Powered Robotic Automation.” The root cause, in this case, is the quality of the image data itself. Authors Mingu Kang...
FIELD OF VIEW
The Vision Association Landscape A variety of associations around the world are trying to gather machine vision companies as members these days. The landscape of associations is almost as scattered as the market itself. To not miss out, companies need to join several organizations to be represented in different world regions and target industries. This article provides an overview of what machine vision-related associations do,...
SHOW PREVIEW
Embedded VISION Europe Gathers Developers, Users Europe’s sole conference focused exclusively on embedded vision, Embedded VISION Europe 2019, will take place Oct. 24-25 at the ICS International Congress Center Stuttgart in Germany. Organized by the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) with support from Messe Stuttgart, the host of the biennial VISION trade fair, the conference explores how embedded vision technologies can be used...
VISION IN ACTION
Vision Automates Aerospace Connector Pin Inspection Many machine vision projects start with one premise: to significantly improve upon the accuracy and repeatability of human inspectors. G2 Technologies Inc. fielded such a request when a customer...
Vision-Guided Robot Targets Natural Interaction with Humans In 1970, robotics professor Masahiro Mori developed his “uncanny valley” hypothesis, which stated that people react positively to a robot if it has some humanlike features, but they...
THE NEWS WIRE
Smart Glass Could Offer a New Route to Machine Vision A new type of smart glass, developed by a team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, leverages optical reflection to recognize images without requiring sensors, circuits, internet connection, or external power sources. Everything needed for image recognition is condensed into single pieces of glass. The technology could be used someday to embed facial recognition in smartphones. The glass...
Metasurface-Based Camera Could Simplify Polarization Imaging for Vision Systems Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a compact, portable camera that can image polarization in a single shot. The miniature...
Sensor Company ams and SmartSens Partner on 3D and NIR Sensor company ams AG is partnering with SmartSens Technology Co. Ltd., a supplier of CMOS imaging systems, to meet an increasing demand for 3D sensing solutions in mobile devices. The collaboration...
Machine Learning-Based System Automates Street Sign Detection and Classification Geospatial scientists at RMIT University have used deep learning to produce an autonomous system for detecting traffic signs on Google Street View images. The system could allow local governments and...
North American Machine Vision Orders Slow in Q1 2019 North American sales of machine vision (MV) components and systems that provide vision intelligence to robots and other machines declined in the first quarter of 2019, a reduction of 4.5% over the...
Drone Using IoT Tech Could Lead to Earlier Detection of Forest Fires An automatic flight system with real-time connectivity could help prevent large-scale forest fires by locating and detecting fires where and when they start and communicating this information to...
Deep Neural Network Guides Drone to Smooth Landing Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have collaborated on a system that uses a deep neural network (DNN) to help autonomous drones “learn” how to land more...
STEMMER IMAGING Purchases Infaimon STEMMER IMAGING has entered into an agreement to purchase Spanish company Infaimon SL, a software and hardware provider for machine vision and robotics. Under the agreement, STEMMER IMAGING will pay...
TriEye Secures $17M to Bring HD SWIR Cameras to Auto Market Israeli startup TriEye has secured $17 million in funding to bring to market its HD shortwave-IR (SWIR) camera that will allow advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles to...
FOCAL POINT
Focal Point with MiR’s Niels Jul Jacobsen A Q&A with MiR's Niels Jul Jacobsen. Niels Jul Jacobsen is the chief strategy officer of Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR), a leading manufacturer of autonomous mobile robots based in Odense, Denmark. He has worked in robotics since 1989 and has been a key figure in Denmark’s booming robot industry. When will AI, applied to data gathered by vision and sensing technologies, begin having an...
PRODUCTS
2D Scan Head + XY Positioning + Z-Shifter The XL SCAN scan system from SCANLAB GmbH features an additional axis, processing workpieces of unlimited size by combining a 2D scan head with an XY positioning stage. A dynamic z-shifter...
SCANLAB GmbH
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4-CMOS Prism Design The EoSens 1.1 CXP from Mikrotron GmbH is a 1-MP camera featuring CMOS sensor technology and the CoaXPress 1.1 interface. With ultra-fast frame rates of 2050 fps at full 1280 × 864-pixel...
Mikrotron GmbH
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Xenon-Topaz C-Mount Lens The 6.5-mm Xenon-Topaz C-mount compact lens series from Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH features wide angles with a 17.6-mm image circle. Designed for cameras with 1.1-in. sensors, the...
Jos. Schneider Optische Werke GmbH, Industrial Solutions
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SDI Adapter The Harrier SDI Adapter from Active Silicon Ltd. extends capabilities for challenging vision applications as a single-channel host-end acquisition solution for 3G and HDSI video streams. The...
Active Silicon Ltd.
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Fixed Focal Lens The M112FM wide-angle machine vision lens from Tamron Co. Ltd. is designed for high-resolution sensors. The M112FM fixed-focal lens supports the latest large-format imaging sensors up to 1 to...
Tamron Co. Ltd.
Code Reading, Pick and Place VCnanoZ Image processing systems with integrated LED ring lights and flash controllers in a compact camera housing have been announced by Vision Components GmbH. The systems are well-suited for...
Vision Components GmbH
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