Scientific and Industrial Research

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Cameras and Accessories

3D scanners and printers enable rapid reusable N95 mask production

June 15, 2020
Multiple organizations in Kentucky collaborate to produce a mobile station capable of creating up to 4,000 masks in a single day,
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ShadowCam allows autonomous cars to see around corners

March 12, 2020
ShadowCam dem­onstrates the potential to give advanced driver assis­tance systems (ADAS) the ability to read changes in il­lumination on the ground caused by dynamic ob­stacles...
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Embedded Vision

NASA's new robots for the ISS feature multiple vision systems

May 20, 2019
New robotic assistants called "Astrobees," developed by NASA to assist in the operation of the International Space Station (ISS), are equipped with a sizeable payload of cameras...
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Spider monkey population monitored by drones with thermal infrared cameras

May 7, 2019
In another example of how unmanned technology can serve animal conservation, researchers used drones equipped with thermal infrared (TIR) cameras to monitor spider monkey populations...
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Cameras and Accessories

Radiant Vision Systems releases 43 MPixel imaging photometer

May 1, 2019
The Y43 Imaging Photometer from Radiant Vision Systems features a 43 MPixel CCD image sensor and includes a PM-IP Imaging Photometer with internal Tristimulus Y filter for photometric...
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Fairchild Imaging showing new sCMOS sensor at SPIE DCS 2019

March 28, 2019
Fairchild Imaging, a subsidiary of BAE Systems, will show the LTN4323 sCMOS sensor at SPIE DCS 2019. The LTN4323 is a 10.3 MPixel 4/3" format sensor that offers 4344 x 2368 resolution...
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SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing 2019: Imaging for safety and security

March 27, 2019
The 2019 SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing conference, held in Baltimore, Maryland from April 14 through April 2019 at the Baltimore Convention Center, is expected to draw over...
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Cameras and Accessories

CCD sensors from Teledyne Princeton Instruments integral to new telescope designed to search for exoplanets

March 26, 2019
Researchers from the Astrobiology Center in Mitaka, Tokyo, the University of Tokyo, and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias in Spain, have developed the MuSCAT2 second-generation...
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March 2019 snapshots: Mine-detecting drones, holographic security labels, AI air traffic control, and industry forecasts for the vision industry

March 22, 2019
In the March 2019 snapshots, a team of academic researchers pioneer a mine detection system that could save thousands of lives every year, embedded vision systems provide complex...