Numerous alignment and calibration challenges face developers of multiple linescan-camera inspection systems.
Vision-based inspection examines multicavity injection-molded sub-assemblies used in the medical industry.
Thinking ahead to standards updates and the evolving needs of machine-vision systems helps developers and component vendors get a jump on innovation.
Every year in North America, families come together to celebrate Thanksgiving. Bringing together long-lost relatives who meet only once a year may be a joyous occasion, but it often results in petty arguments.
A vision-based system developed by a pediatric ophthalmologist and an electronics engineer can detect peripheral visual field loss in young children in a more accurate, child-friendly fashion.
The Glückstadt-based ferry line has installed a system that uses cameras from Basler Vision Technologies (Ahrensburg, Germany) and video gateways from HeiTel Digital Video (Molfsee bei Kiel, Germany) to monitor the volume of traffic waiting at ferry docks.
A team of University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN, USA) biometrics researchers are developing software that could help law enforcement officials identify criminals who return to the scenes of their crimes.
An automated system uses CMOS cameras and PC-based software to ensure plastic pharmaceutical tubes are correctly oriented prior to filling.
Researchers led by professor Giovanna Sansoni at the Laboratory of Optoelectronics in the Department of Engineering at the University of Brescia (Brescia, Italy) have developed a vision-based robotic bartender that can serve customers different varieties of beer.
LumaSense has developed a turnkey system known as BoilerSpection for continuous infrared (IR) imaging inside coal-fired boilers in power plants.
Two different methods are commonly used to perform autofocusing: contrast-detection autofocus and phase-detection autofocus. Phase-detection autofocus results in a faster focusing time.
