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    Smart cameras have become a cornerstone of machine vision, evolving significantly over the last decade to meet the demands of today’s quality inspection and process control applications...
    May 28, 2025
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    Discover how lighting can elevate your machine vision projects and learn essential techniques for using light to create visual contrast in product inspection images with Perry...
    June 25, 2025
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    See what visible light can’t. Explore practical machine vision use cases powered by SWIR imaging and learn how this technology is unlocking new possibilities in automated inspection...
    June 4, 2025
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    Explore how MWIR hyperspectral imaging solves black plastic sorting challenges. Get technical insights and integration tips—download the white paper.
    April 23, 2025

    Cameras and Accessories

    Courtesy of Interact Analysis
    Figure 1: After several years of declining revenues, Interact Analysis forecasts growth in the machine vision market.
    Interact Analysis, a market research firm, forecasts growth between 5.2-9.8% annually from 2026-2029. It predicts 1.5% growth for 2025.
    May 16, 2025
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    Cameras especially designed for machine vision applications such as process monitoring, inspections.
    May 13, 2025
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    Camera designed for a variety of machine vision functions such as inspection applications.
    May 2, 2025
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    Camera designed for machine vision tasks in indoor and outdoors settings for robotics, autonomous vehicle applications.
    May 1, 2025

    Factory Automation

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    Vision Systems Design recognizes innovative machine vision products and technologies in bronze, silver, gold, and platinum categories.
    May 12, 2025
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    Figure 1: At TI Fluid Systems, steel strips move on a production line at a rate of 95 meters per minute, or 1,580 mm per second.
    InDeep-solutions and phil-vision opted for a contact image sensor system, providing higher resolution and fewer false positives than an earlier camera-based solution.
    April 17, 2025
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    Figure 1: Resolving unexpected disruptions during manufacturing requires a clear understanding of the root causes of the problem.
    The development of industrial dashcams adapts the core concept of vehicle dashcams for industrial applications.
    March 13, 2025
    Courtesy of Opto Engineering
    Figure 1: Robooptic Systems developed a robotic process to assembly and inspect automotive courtesy lights
    The automated process from Robooptic Systems handles assembly and inspection processes for automotive courtesy lights in less than seven seconds per part.
    Feb. 27, 2025

    Non-Factory Automation

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    Founded in 2016, Automation Intelligence is a technology integrator focusing on robotics and machine vision.
    May 19, 2025
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    Figure 1: Distribution yards have been pain points in the supply chain, in many cases because of delays in the movement of freight in and out of the yard. However, recent innovations using AI-assisted solutions may be the key to loosening up the bottleneck.
    Efficiency, speed, scalability drive trend of AI-based machine vision logistics solutions
    April 14, 2025
    Courtesy of Carbon Robotics
    Figure 1: Carbon Robotics markets an autonomy kit—including machine vision components and deep learning algorithms—as well as a self-contained system to kill weeds using lasers.
    The kit—enabled with deep learning and machine vision—follows the company's launch of the LaserWeeder G2.
    April 9, 2025
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    Figure 1: Stereo vision is often used in vision guided robotics in warehouses.
    Stereo vision, a type of 3D sensing, is often used in vision-guided robotic applications in warehouses.
    March 31, 2025

    Embedded Vision

    Courtesy of Scheucher Holzindustrie GmbH
    Figure 1: The individual planks of Scheucher's flooring click together.
    Scheucher Holzindustrie GmbH in Austria uses a smart camera and neural network to evaluate the application of glue between layers of engineered wood flooring planks.
    May 8, 2025
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    System designed for machine vision applications such as automated inspections, performed by OEMs in highly regulated industries.
    March 28, 2025
    Liu Z, Zhong X, Wang C, Wu G, He F, Wang J and Yang D (2025) Rapid and accurate detection of peanut pod appearance quality based on lightweight and improved YOLOv5_SSE model. Front. Plant Sci. 16:1494688. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2025.1494688
    Figure 1: The image acquisition setup included: 1) box enclosure 2) light source 3) webcam 4) camera mount 5) conveyor 6) operating platform 7) Raspberry Pi
    The model uses a YOLO variant to inspect and classify the surface appearance of peanut pods. It is suitable for embedded computing platforms.
    March 4, 2025
    Courtesy of SICK
    Figure 1: SICK's acquisition of Accerion expands the company's solution set for autonomous mobile robots.
    Accerion specializes in edge-based AI-enabled image processing for navigation of autonomous mobile robots using optical sensors.
    Feb. 5, 2025

    Boards and Software

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    How much do you know about deploying deep learning algorithms in machine vision and imaging applications? Take this fun quiz from Vision Systems Design to find out.
    May 6, 2025
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    Software part of platform designed to enable integrators to easily design and implement hyperspectral imaging machine vision solutions.
    May 5, 2025
    Courtesy of MVTec
    Figure 1: Deep-learning-based object detection localizes trained object classes and identifies them with a surrounding rectangle (bounding box).
    There are numerous deep-learning methods available for developing machine vision systems or applications. Using commercial software tools, even non-experts use deep learning. ...
    April 30, 2025
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    Software especially designed for simplified creation, integration, and deployment of machine vision applications.
    April 24, 2025