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AI Assists Vision-Guided Robots in Food and Beverage Inspection
For decades, machine vision has helped robotic systems surpass limited, rote applications, enabling a wide range of pick-and-place applications across industries. One of these industries is the food and beverage industry, but the natural variability of products in this sector — especially proteins, fruits, and vegetables — presents challenges for this technology. Traditional vision-guided robotic systems perform well in food and beverage manufacturing and packaging under controlled...
Vision Spectra, Winter 2024
Thermal Industrial Inspection is Heating Up
Falling prices, rising resolutions, better analysis algorithms, and increased operational efficiency are expanding the use of thermal imaging in industrial inspections. These innovations are leading to use cases that were not feasible three to five...
Vision Spectra, Winter 2024
GigE Vision 3.0 Pushes Imaging Technology to New Heights
The technical specifications of cutting-edge image sensors and state-of-the-art smart cameras mean absolutely nothing without the ability to get vast amounts of high-speed image data from point A to point B quickly, smoothly, and without any loss of...
Vision Spectra, Winter 2024
Imaging Lenses for UAVs Designed to Withstand Environmental Challenges
Machine vision systems are no longer confined to factory automation. Today, this technology is found in mobile robotics, such as autonomous agriculture equipment, cars, and drones. These applications push high-resolution imaging lenses into...
Vision Spectra, Autumn 2024
Sensor and AI Advancements Boost Bin Picking Performance
Consider a robot performing bin picking, which involves recognizing randomly arranged objects, picking them up, and placing them in a new position. This process is essential in manufacturing, and its automation is often the goal. There is a...
Vision Spectra, Autumn 2024
AI Raises the Bar for Package Inspection
Package inspection has come a long way, due to traditional machine vision methods that use image capture, processing, and analysis to automate quality control. These methods are crucial for ensuring process quality, improving production efficiency,...
Vision Spectra, Autumn 2024
Assessing the Differences in Smart Cameras, Industrial Cameras, and Embedded Vision
In modern industry and automation, industrial image processing has become a well-established technology. Its reliability and functionality no longer need to be proved to companies. While lighting, optics, and resolution for specific applications...
Vision Spectra, Autumn 2024
Multispectral and Hyperspectral Imaging Applications: Reducing System Complexity and Costs
The demand for advanced imaging systems across industrial and scientific applications has led to the evolution of multispectral and hyperspectral line-scan imaging technologies. These systems are pivotal for tasks such as quality control, material...
Vision Spectra, Autumn 2024
The Future of Colloidal Quantum Dots for SWIR Sensing
In the realm of advanced imaging, shortwave infrared (SWIR) technology has undergone an identity challenge for more than 20 years. Typing “SWIR imagery” into a search engine often results in the same examples: visible images juxtaposed...
Vision Spectra, Summer 2024
Machine Vision with AI Assists Traffic Monitoring
According to analysts at INRIX, traffic congestion cost individual drivers in the U.S. $869 in 2022, an increase from $564 the previous year. In 2022, drivers in Germany and the U.K. lost $439 and $926, respectively, from sitting in traffic, an...
Vision Spectra, Summer 2024
Subpixel HDR Overcomes the Limitations of Conventional Imaging Technology
High dynamic range (HDR) technology has altered image capture by enhancing clarity and preserving details in both bright and dark regions, an advancement that is proving to be instrumental in sectors such as advanced driver-assistance systems...
Vision Spectra, Summer 2024
The Evolution of 3D Imaging in Industrial Applications
A wide range of applications in industrial automation require and are enabled by 3D imaging. 3D technologies are in demand in varied industries, including aerospace, automotive, logistics, and more. Components and software that deliver high-quality...
Photonics Spectra, June 2024
Hyperspectral Machine Vison Finds Its Place in a Growing Number of Sorting and Inspection Applications
PICVISA Machine Vision Systems of Spain is striving to make the world cleaner by enabling the automatic sorting of textile waste. This is a critically important task when it comes to meeting regulations aimed at reducing the contents of landfills...
Vision Spectra, Spring 2024
3D Vision Transforms Robotic Piece Picking by Imaging Transparent Materials
E-commerce has had a profound effect on everyday life, making it possible for goods to be bought and delivered across the world. This infinitely large marketplace is available from smartphones everywhere, and fulfilling purchasing desires has become...
Vision Spectra, Spring 2024
SPIE Names 2024 Prism Award Winners
SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, recognized the top innovations in new optics and photonics products at the 2024 Prism Awards held at Photonics West on Jan. 31. The gala event marked the Prism Awards’ 16th anniversary....
BioPhotonics, Mar/Apr 2024
Vision Ensures Lithium-Ion Batteries Make the Grade
The international consulting firm McKinsey forecasts that the entire process chain for producing lithium-ion batteries, from extracting the materials to recycling, will reach more than $400 billion by 2030. Roughly 30% of the value created is...
Vision Spectra, Winter 2023
Detecting Dents and Damage in Aluminum Cans Using AI Computer Vision
Predictive artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning are rapidly undergoing adoption for computer vision tasks in automation and manufacturing. Applications that were previously impossible with traditional computer vision tools can now be...
Vision Spectra, Winter 2023
Vision-Powered Cobots Improve Speed and Quality of Inspections
Cobots assisted by machine vision with AI can aid manufacturers with automating assembly and inspection processes, and offer numerous advantages in industries from automotive and packaging to food electronics and pharmaceuticals. The first cobot was...
Vision Spectra, Winter 2023
AI Aids Automotive Manufacturing Inspection
Alan Eddy is a machine vision specialist at Tensor ID, a system integrator that develops solutions to difficult manufacturing problems. The company has devised ways to overcome challenges for large automakers using vision to gauge spark plug gaps...
Vision Spectra, Autumn 2023
Novel Lighting Designs Tackle Vision Challenges in Logistics
Growth in e-commerce has significantly increased the volume of products and goods that businesses have had to transport, putting pressure on the quality and throughput in logistics and warehousing scenarios. For companies in e-commerce, industrial...
Vision Spectra, Autumn 2023
AI to Transform Quality Inspection Across Industries
The introduction of AI in fields such as quality inspection is the latest development in a wider transformation involving the introduction of automation and digitalization on the factory floor. Previous stages of this evolution have included the...
Vision Spectra, Autumn 2023
Custom Sputter-Coated Filters Are Transforming Machine Vision Applications
For demanding machine vision applications, sputter-coated thin-film interference filters deliver exemplary performance. Filters for wavelengths from the UV to the SWIR boost contrast, enabling an imaging system to acquire more information more...
Vision Spectra, Autumn 2023
AI Brings New Capabilities to Bin Picking
Plucking individual objects from a collection, or bin picking, is a staple of man- ufacturing and processing. Robotic bin picking has been around for decades but often required special expertise to configure, as well as some sort of manual...
Vision Spectra, Summer 2023
AI Streamlines Inspection in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Visual inspections in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries help to ensure that medications, instruments, and packaged items arrive free of defects for end users. Whether such products are marketed for use in clinal settings or for...
Vision Spectra, Summer 2023
Line-Scan Cameras Facilitate Increasingly Higher Throughput
In their most basic form, line-scan cameras have a single row of pixels. To capture an image, the object being imaged must be moving at a known speed. An encoder provides a feedback signal from a moving belt into the camera to tell it when the speed...
Vision Spectra, Summer 2023
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