Geoff Roddick, the application engineering manager of Pleora Technologies (Ottawa, ON, Canada), is taking on the role of vice-chair of the GigE Vision technical committee.

A technology that started life in detecting faces and penguin markings in the Antarctic is being adapted to help aid operators of military radar screens.

A team of researchers led by computer science Professor Serge Belongie at the University of California, San Diego has developed an iPad app called Visipedia that will identify most North American birds, with a little help from a human user.

A team of Irish and Spanish researchers has developed a hyperspectral image processing system that could be used to sort nonferrous metals.

A researcher at the University of Twente’s MIRA Research Institute (Enschede, The Netherlands) has developed image processing software that can count the circulating tumor cells in a blood sample and identify them by type.

Researchers at Bristol University (Bristol, UK) are involved in a £500,000 project that will see them create a vision-based control system for legged robotic systems that can travel over complex terrains.

A new free-to-attend webcast from Vision Systems Design will focus on the fundamentals of machine vision.

The nonprofit Center for Innovative Technology (CIT; Herndon, VA, USA) has made a $100,000 investment in VanGogh Imaging (McLean, VA, USA), a developer of 3-D rendering software.

As part of the so-called 'Forklift Eye' project, researchers from the Institute of Materials Handling, Material Flow and Logistics (Garching, Germany) are developing a vision-based system to improve the efficiency and performance of fork-lift trucks.

Researchers at InnerOptic Technology (Hillsborough, NC, USA) have developed software that fuses pre-operative CT scans with live ultrasound imagery in real time onto a 3-D monitor.

Researchers at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA; Los Angeles, CA, USA) have developed a rapid diagnostic test (RDT) system that works in tandem with standard cell phones.

Engineers at 3D3 Solutions (Burnaby, BC, Canada) have created a High Definition Imaging (HDI) scanner that uses a combination of Point Grey (Richmond, BC, Canada) cameras, projectors and proprietary software.

Researchers at GEVES (Beaucouzé, France) have developed a machine vision system for monitoring the germination of seeds from a dry state to young seedlings.

Bioengineering researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA; Los Angeles, CA, USA) have created a new system that can measure the physical characteristics of cells by taking images of them as they hit a wall of fluid.