Flex-Eye is a new camera concept giving vision system designers the ability to customize the size and location of wavebands in JAI’s Fusion Series 2-CMOS and 3-CMOS prism-based multispectral cameras.
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Image: JAI A/S
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Autonomous Picking
ActiNav is a UR+ application kit that simplifies the integration of autonomous bin picking of parts and accurate placement in machines using UR cobots. It synchronously handles vision processing, collision-free motion planning and autonomous real-time robot control.
Bild: ADLINK Technology GmbH
Bild: ADLINK Technology GmbH
PPE Enforcement with Edge AI Vision
Systems leveraging AI with real-time object detection through image and video analysis can automate personal protective equipment (PPE) policy enforcement.
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Bild: Cambridge Electronic Industries Ltd
Bild: Cambridge Electronic Industries Ltd
World’s First Qualified CoaXPress-12 Repeater
Available in single, dual and quad formats, the world´s first CXP-12 repeater enables users to double the transmission distance of a signal at 12.5Gbps.
Image: Optotune AG
Image: Optotune AG
12mm Liquid Lens for 1.1″ Sensors Solves Challenges in Logistics
Optotune and VS Technology present the first wide-angle liquid lens solution for high resolution 1.1″ sensors. With the ability to focus from 100mm to infinity in 20ms, the new 12mm lens is a very reliable and fast focusing solution for today’s logistics and robotics applications.
Figure: Midwest Optical Systems
Figure: Midwest Optical Systems
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 Backlight fluoreSheet is coupled with a blue LED light and an Orange Bandpass Filter.
Bild: 3dvisionlabs GmbH
Bild: 3dvisionlabs GmbH
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 opening angle of 180×180° (HxV).
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 plug&play system that delivers reliable results in the shortest time and with minimal installation effort. The inVISION has tested this in a self-experiment.
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)
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 at the fair, which are briefly presented in this follow-up report.
Bild: EMVA European Machine Vision Association
Bild: EMVA European Machine Vision Association
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 these embedded vision systems to enable industrial solutions to use them. By addressing these needs, hosted by the EMVA a new standardization initiative has been formed.
(Image: ©Tatiana Shepeleva/stock.adobe.com)
(Image: ©Tatiana Shepeleva/stock.adobe.com)
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 and not in the AI itself. The current discussion of AI and ethics aims to prevent artificial intelligence systems from discriminating people.
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)
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 infrared (SWIR) wavelengths above one micrometer.
The bin picking unit at Renault Cléon is equipped with an ABB IBR 6700 robot and a Visio Nerf Cirrus3D 1200 sensor (Bild: Visio Nerf)
The bin picking unit at Renault Cléon is equipped with an ABB IBR 6700 robot and a Visio Nerf Cirrus3D 1200 sensor (Bild: Visio Nerf)
Automated Bin Picking of Parts in Bulk at Renault Cléon
In order to reach the cycle time at an automated bin picking application at Renault Cléon, a double gripper was designed with a vision system. The cell is in the center of the workshop.
Bild 1 | With the Zivid One+ 3D color camera it is no problem to distinguish between almost black parts and shiny white parts on a rubber duck. (Bild: Stemmer Imaging AG)
Bild 1 | With the Zivid One+ 3D color camera it is no problem to distinguish between almost black parts and shiny white parts on a rubber duck. (Bild: Stemmer Imaging AG)
From Packaged Sensors to 3D Color Images in just Ten Minutes – Interview
In June this year, Stemmer Imaging and Zivid signed a distribution agreement for the Zivid One+ 3D color camera. We took a moment to speak to Tim Huylebrouck, Product Manager at Stemmer Imaging.
By using CertifEye and ProcVision to simplify IP or ISP pipeline design, instantly test and validate, and reduce compilation time by 50%, customers can bring products to market in just one-third the time. (Image: Gidel Ltd.)
By using CertifEye and ProcVision to simplify IP or ISP pipeline design, instantly test and validate, and reduce compilation time by 50%, customers can bring products to market in just one-third the time. (Image: Gidel Ltd.)
3x Acceleration of FPGA and ASIC Development and Validation
The developer’s kit CertifEye is a development, debug, and validation solution. It provides developers with infrastructure that injects known images and videos into FPGA/ASIC processing (IP) or an ISP pipeline under test, process them in FPGAs in near or real time, and return results back to the host.
Bild: EMVA European Machine Vision Association
Bild: EMVA European Machine Vision Association
What is IVSM (International Vision Standards Meeting) good for?
Machine vision engineers from all over the world have gathered from 07 to 11 October in Stresa (Italy) at the shore of Lago Maggiore for the International Vision Standards Meeting (IVSM) Fall 2019. This meeting takes place twice a year under the global G3 initiative which is supported by the machine vision associations AIA, CMVU, EMVA, JIIA and VDMA. But what is the IVSM good for?
With deep learning we tend to re-use a relatively small handful of algorithms across a wide range of applications and imaging conditions. This has two important consequences. (Image: MVTec Software GmbH)
With deep learning we tend to re-use a relatively small handful of algorithms across a wide range of applications and imaging conditions. This has two important consequences. (Image: MVTec Software GmbH)
How Deep Learning is Changing Real-World Computer Vision
The expansion of computer-vision-based systems and applications is enabled by many factors, including advances in processors, sensors and development tools. But, arguably, the single most important thing driving the proliferation of computer vision is deep learning.
Image: Ocean Insight
Image: Ocean Insight
Color Inspection System for In-line Measurements
The FD-D8R is an advanced spectrophotometer designed for in-line color measurement applications. It incorporates multiple miniaturized spectrometers to provide both Specular Component Included (SCI) and Specular Component Excluded (SCE) reflectance measurements.
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Access to AI
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