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Technology News Highlights 2007 p1 of 3:

• Rays of hope from active sensors
  DECEMBER 17, 2007--Huge improvements in medical x-ray and gamma ray imaging are expected to become possible in the near term, thanks to the development of large-area, wafer-sized solid-state sensor arrays.
• Windows software emulates brain vision
  DECEMBER 12, 2007--Numenta (Menlo Park, CA, USA) has introduced a Windows-based vision package that implements a type of memory architecture called Hierarchical Temporal Memory.
• EMVA publishes presentations from VISION 2007
  DECEMBER 7, 2007--Organized by the VDMA Machine Vision group, the "Industrial Vision Days" seminar papers consist of more than 40 presentations.
• Student wins innovator award for image search technology
  DECEMBER 5, 2007--Kris Woodbeck, a master's student in the University of Ottawa's Computer Science program, has developed a image search technology to potentially outperform currently available engines.
• Adaptive lenses mimic the human eye
  Conventional zoom lenses rely on mechanically moving groups of glass or plastic lenses to adjust focus, magnification, and field of view. Miniature adaptive lenses, however, offer the ability to change focal lengths while eliminating the need to mechanically change the location of the lens.
• System discriminates hard-to-separate colors
  By Andrew Wilson, Editor

  One of the main problems for color machine-vision systems is distinguishing objects with similar colors. "This problem occurs," says Andy Long, senior director of Cyth Systems (San Diego, CA, USA), "because of the way in which the human eye interprets color."

• Smart camera solutions highlight vision conference
  Many companies are now producing their own in-house events. In August 2007, for example, National Instruments (Austin, TX, USA; www.ni.com) held its annual NIWeek, which the company used for just this purpose. In addition, from August 13 to 17, PPT VISION (Eden Prairie, MN, USA; www.pptvision.com) held its Global Partner Conference in St. Paul, MN, USA. PPT partners from around the world gathered to discuss machine-vision systems developed with the company's IMPACT range of products.
• GPUs battle for imaging applications
  Performing general-purpose computing on graphics processing units (GPUs) has generated much interest over the last few years, to the point where they are being used by commercial vendors of machine-vision software such as Stemmer Imaging (Puchheim, Germany; www.stemer-imaging.de). The General-Purpose Computation Using Graphics Hardware Web site (www.gpgpu. org) now lists more than 40 independent groups developing software for graphics processors.
• LMSs help guide DARPA Urban Challenge Vehicles
  OCTOBER 30, 2007--Laser measurement system sensors (LMSs) from SICK (Minneapolis, MN, USA) are being used by 26 of the 35 teams at the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.
• GenICam standard now covers transport layer
  OCTOBER 11, 2007--GenICam provides a standardized programming interface to machine-vision cameras independent of the interface technology and the camera's features.

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