Smart cameras with embedded processing capabilities are changing the vision landscape, allowing developers to run vision inspection applications without the need to burden a separate PC.
Hyperspectral-camera-based vision system reconstructs images in real time for intensive analysis applications.
High-performance LED line lights are replacing traditional illumination systems in web-inspection applications.
Some years ago on a trip to England, I decided to accompany my brother to the local supermarket to help him with his weekly groceries.
With demand for photovoltaic (PV) panels more than doubling year on year, manufacturers are under increasing pressure to improve the efficiencies of the solar cells as well as their production yields.
An interactive spherical screen, the Puffersphere, that can display images visible from all directions made its debut this year at the opening of the Missoni Hotel (Kuwait City, Kuwait).
A researcher at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute (San Francisco, CA, USA) plans to develop and evaluate a cell-phone-based system to enable visually impaired individuals to navigate using street signs.
A new system makes it possible for spectators to follow multiple players at once on a football field or basketball court, even when they are crouched behind another player.
Before the advent of digital photography, most documentary film makers and television production organizations used 16-mm film cameras.
While airborne remote sensing systems have been used for a number of years to monitor the health of crops, they are unaffordable to small or medium-sized producers.
During the production of glass and plastic products, molten glass or plastic polymers are molded, thermoformed, or extruded to form the final product.
Automatic license plate recognition is used in a number of security and surveillance systems to provide information as a means of electronic toll collection or to track the movement of specific vehicles.
In Part I of this two-part series, Vincent Rowley from Pleora Technologies describes the features and capabilities of the GigE Vision standard.