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    Transporting over three billion passengers per year around Paris and its suburbs, the Réseau Express Régional or Regional Express Network is one of the most widely used public...
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    Many of today's automotive components must be properly assembled into sub-components before they can be installed.
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    Although CMOS-based imagers are now commonplace in many of today's solid-state cameras, the very nature of the silicon material they are built from limits their spectral response...
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    A growing number of companies are using camera-equipped unmanned marine vehicles, or drones, to perform tasks such as searching for buried treasure in sunken ships and assisting...
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    In a stunning image of Saturn and its ring system taken by cameras on NASA's Cassini spacecraft, Earth appears as little more than a small blue dot in the distance.
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    In the past, manufacturers of kettle chips relied on hand sorting because of the difficulty in recognizing problematic clusters of chips.
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    The Robomotive humanoid robot, jointly developed by Yaskawa Motoman (Miamisburg,OH), Beltech (Eindhoven, Germany) and Robotiq (St. Nicolas, Canada) uses BitFlow's (Woburn, MA)...
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    An autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with video cameras and navigational and scientific instrumentation was used to track and capture up-close footage of a Great White shark...
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    Physicists from the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI, Bremerhaven, Germany) have developed a system which uses a thermal imaging camera and analysis software to detect whales and...
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    Scientists from Germany and Canada have created a digital 3D model of the human brain.
    Sept. 6, 2013
    Andy Wilson
    It is difficult to believe that it has been nearly 20 years since the founding of Vision Systems Design magazine.
    Sept. 6, 2013