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.

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.

Scientists have developed a new imaging technique that could help doctors to predict a patient’s risk of having a heart attack.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is to spearhead the development of a standard that is designed to specify methods and metrics for measuring and testing camera-phone image quality.

A region of Texas that contains four of the world's largest wind farms has shown an increase in land surface temperature that researchers have connected to local meteorological effects of the turbines.

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

Engineers at Image Insight (East Hartford, CT, USA) have developed a software app that uses the camera in an Android smart phone to measure radioactivity levels, allowing users to ensure their local environments are safe.

Researchers at Queensland University of Science and Technology (Brisbane, Australia) are attempting to develop a system that will be able to identify a person without the need to stand face on to a camera.

An Irish researcher has been awarded a Gold Medal at the Young European Arena of Research 2012 competition by the EU Commission for his work developing systems for pedestrian identification.

Australia's largest apparel retailer Target has plans to scan up to 20,000 adult men and women using 3-D body scanners from Alvanon (New York, NY) to identify and analyze the dominant body shapes and measurements of consumers.

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.

A new data center at the University of Cambridge Institute for Astronomy (IoA; Cambridge, UK) will process imaging data from a satellite to create the first three-dimensional map of more than a billion stars.

A non-destructive Terahertz inspection system has been developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques IPM (Kaiserslautern, Germany) to identify imperfections in the radar domes of aircraft during production.