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.

An editorial digest on machine-vision optics is available for free download from Vision Systems Design.

A new white paper that describes the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 communication specification, how it differs from other available interfaces, and how it can be leveraged in vision applications is available for free download from Vision Systems Design.

Pattern-matching software is used to verify batch code markings on beverage cans in an automated inspection station

Coleman Technologies Inc. (CTI; Newtown Square, PA, USA) has developed a linescan-based imaging system that counts a variety of seeds at rates of up to 1000 seeds/sec with a counting accuracy greater than 99%.

Any nostalgic feelings for the past may be better put aside with the understanding that the future will only bring with it more exciting technologies, products, and applications.

The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is to break away from the German Verband Deutscher Maschinen- und Anlagenbau (VDMA) to become an independent non-for-profit association.

Digital CCD/CMOS camera and systems developer JAI (San Jose, CA, USA) has acquired TVI Vision (Helsinki, Finland) which has developed and manufactured color linescan cameras for industrial machine vision applications since 1993.

Vision Systems Design is hosting a free hour long webcast on May 1 that will provide an in depth look at Version 2.0 of the GigE Vision standard.

A free quick-start kit is now available for engineers who want to start developing computer vision applications using OpenCV.

A new white paper from Aptina Imaging (San Jose, CA, USA) takes a detailed look at the global shutter technology typically found on charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensors.

LED illumination systems maker ProPhotonix (Salem, NH, USA) has strengthened its international sales operations with the appointment of three new distribution partners in Asia, Europe and the US.

At last month’s Anuga FoodTec fair held in Cologne, Germany, Mettler-Toledo CI-Vision (Aurora, IL, USA) took the wraps off a new system designed to verify and inspect labels on packaged products.