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Vision Spectra: Spring 2019

Vision Spectra
 Spring 2019


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FEATURES
Innovations in Machine Vision Bolster Food Inspection Machine vision has long been employed effectively in packaging inspection, where barcode readers and cameras verify that boxes are properly labeled. Increasingly, vision is playing a critical role in...
Deep Learning Boosts Defect Recognition Rates As processes become highly automated and universally networked within the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), digitization is fundamentally changing industrial production. The production routine at...
A Closer Look at Resolution Testing In the days of VGA video cameras and predominantly analog storage, it was easy to make an imaging lens that would outperform the camera’s ability to capture an image. That’s no longer the...
The Integration of Machine Vision with Motion Control Is Transforming Bin Picking, Part Inspection Historically, robots have improved manufacturing processes through mechanical, repetitive motion. In a typical operation, the arm of an industrial robot followed a preprogrammed sequence of...
EDITORIAL
From Pixels to Action Deep learning. It’s the most talked-about trend in machine vision — for good reason. Spurred by unprecedented computing performance, deep learning has, in less than a decade, helped transform the manufacturing sector and usher in the intelligent factory. It seems only fitting, then, that we feature our deep learning article on the cover of the inaugural issue of Vision Spectra. As...
FIELD OF VIEW
A Shakeout for Machine Vision OEMs? Meet the author Ronald Mueller is an expert in the global machine vision industry, with a Ph.D. in computer vision and machine learning. Based on his technical know-how, his experience as a corporate executive, and his first-hand experience in machine vision sales in Europe, North America, and China, he founded the consulting firm Vision Markets in 2014. He, his team, and the Vision Markets...
SHOW PREVIEW
The Future of Automation, Robotics, and Machine Vision Launch Pad Startup Competition to award $10K to one promising young company North America’s largest event dedicated to recognizing trends in the automation industry, Automate 2019, returns to Chicago’s McCormick Place April 8-11 to showcase leading-edge technologies and innovative solutions in robotics, machine vision, artificial intelligence (AI), motion control, and more. The theme...
VISION IN ACTION
Reading Between the Lines Large rolls of paper can harbor many defects: smudges, bugs, crown core pieces, fragments of pulp or rubber, bits of paint, specs of dirt, and broken washer pieces trapped within the packaging. A producer of shrink-wrapped paper rolls reached out to machine vision system integrator Integro Technologies to develop a cost-effective, error-free inspection solution for finding flaws. Integro used...
Indoor Autonomous Vehicle Navigates with Unprecedented Accuracy In the mid-1980s, Vivek Burhanpurkar wrote one of the first academic theses about the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in self-driving systems in complex, unmapped environments. Over the years,...
Vision System Says Goodbye to Blowholes Gruber & Kaja High Tech Metals GmbH, an automotive supplier specializing in engine-related aluminum die-cast parts, needed to manufacture durable, high-quality products free of blowholes. These...
THE NEWS WIRE
ZEISS breaks ground on new facility ZEISS, a manufacturer of metrology solutions and technology in the field of optics and optoelectronics, has broken ground on construction of a new facility outside of Detroit. Built for the...
New Infrared Technologies awarded EU prize New Infrared Technologies (NIT), a Spanish company specializing in IR sensor manufacturing technology, was awarded the Innovation Radar Prize 2018 in the Industrial & Enabling Tech category by...
Laser Components announces MIRTHE+ membership Laser Components USA has joined MIRTHE+ Photonics Sensing Center at Princeton University to become one of almost two dozen companies, laboratories, and academic institutions that are part of the...
FLIR’s acquisition expands unmanned systems solutions FLIR Systems Inc. has acquired Aeryon Labs Inc., a primary designer and manufacturer of high-performance small unmanned aerial systems (UASs), for $200 million. The acquisition is part of FLIR...
UKIVA appoints new chairman The UK Industrial Vision Association (UKIVA) appointed Allan Anderson, managing director of ClearView Imaging, its new chairman at a recent annual members’ meeting.Anderson, who previously held the...
Prophesee opens development center in Grenoble Prophesee SA opened a Center of Excellence in Grenoble, France, to integrate event-based vision systems solutions into autonomous vehicles.“Event-based sensing makes it possible for car manufacturers...
Teledyne acquires scientific imaging businesses of Roper Technologies Teledyne Technologies Inc. has acquired the scientific imaging businesses of Roper Technologies Inc. for $225 million in cash. Roper’s other scientific imaging businesses include Princeton...
Borg appointed interim CEO of JonDeTech Swedish nanotechnology and IR sensor manufacturer JonDeTech has appointed Leif Borg interim CEO replacing Robert Ekström, who left the company for another assignment. Borg was previously production...
FOCAL POINT
Focal Point with Alex Shikany Alex Shikany is vice president of AIA at the Association for Advancing Automation (A3). AIA — The Association for Advancing Vision + Imaging — is the world’s largest machine vision and imaging trade group, with over 380 member companies. Also a member of A3’s senior leadership team, Shikany presents to a variety of audiences worldwide on the benefits of machine/computer...
PRODUCTS
Alvium Cameras The Alvium Camera Series by Allied Vision Technologies for industrial embedded vision offers system designers a greater level of freedom. Powered by ALVIUM technology, a system on chip (SoC), the camera series delivers industrial performance to embedded vision. The Alvium 1500 series camera comes with a MIPI CSI-2 interface for embedded vision application development, and the software integration...
Allied Vision Technologies Inc.
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CMOS Sensor The uEye CP models from IDS now include the IMX226 rolling shutter CMOS sensor from the Sony STARVIS series. The sensor is designed for application fields such as logistics, machine vision, and...
IDS Imaging Development Systems Inc.
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GenICam Transport Layer for Intel 400 RealSense Cameras Stemmer Imaging has designed a GenICam Transport Layer (GenTL) to make the Intel 400 Series of RealSense stereo cameras and depth modules GenICam compliant. The innovation enhances the use of...
Stemmer Imaging AG
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High-Resolution Area-Scan Camera The SP-12401-USB 12.4-MP camera from JAI is included in the Spark Series of high-resolution area-scan cameras. It is suitable for many applications, such as virtual reality, automatic inventory...
JAI Inc.
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CMOS Image Sensor The Emerald 5M CMOS image sensor from Teledyne e2v is designed for machine vision, automated optical inspection, and factory automation applications that require higher resolution images of objects...
Teledyne e2v - UK
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