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Current News Highlights 2007 p1 of 2:

• Imaging reveals a painting's secrets
  DECEMBER 26, 2007--Experts at Nottingham Trent University in England (www.ntu.ac.uk) are developing imaging technology that aims to provide exciting new insights into museum painting collections.
• Osram Research team wins prize for LED lighting technology
  DECEMBER 10, 2007--Klaus Streubel and Stefan Illek together with Andreas Brauer were awarded this year's prize for technology and innovation.
• FLIR Systems to acquire controlling interest in Cedip Infrared Systems
  SEPTEMBER 14, 2007--FLIR Systems (North Billerica, MA, USA) announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire a controlling interest in Cedip Infrared Systems, a provider of infrared cameras and stabilized gimbaled systems (Croissy-Beaubourg, France).
• Machine vision enhances modern art
  JULY 25, 2007--Harun Farocki, a Czech artist living in Berlin, is using HALCON machine-vision software from MVTec (Munich, Germany) to bring his installations to life.
• New machine vision center to be established in India
  JULY 23, 2007--The Confederation of Indian Industry and Rajalakshmi Engineering College announced a project to create the Centre of Excellence in Machine Vision.
• Adept expands distribution of robots and vision in China
  JULY 17, 2007--Adept Technology, (Livermore, CA, USA; www.adept.com) has signed an agreement with Second2None Machine Vision Systems (Shenzhen, China; www.visiondragon.com) to distribute and integrate Adept robots and vision systems in China.
• Northwire opens European office to supply vision, automation cable
  JULY 16, 2007--To meet the need for made-to-order cable among European customers, Northwire (Osceola, WI, USA; www.northwire.com) has opened a European office in Hellendoorn, The Netherlands.
• Cedip to develop IR sensors for French R&D competitiveness cluster
  JULY 13, 2007--Cedip Infrared Systems (Croissy Beaubourg, France), has been retained as a partner of the SYSTEM@TIC PARIS-REGION competitiveness cluster to develop innovative thermal imaging sensors.
• VDMA study shows global success of German machine vision products
  JULY 11, 2007--The German machine-vision industry continued its growth in 2006 and increased its aggregated sales volume by 9%, reaching 1.1 billion euros in total.
• Robotics center wins grant for vision-guided pork processing
  JULY 11, 2007--Ohio Northern University's Robotic Technology Center of Excellence has been awarded a $50,622 grant to fund a summer research project entitled "Vision Driven Robotic Processing for the Pork Skin Processing Industry."

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