It's natural to pause near the end of another year and take a look back at where we've been. We've looked back at the stories that Vision Systems Design online readers clicked on the most. By doing so, you told us what machine vision and imaging news stories and features captured your focus, frame by frame, in 2011.
Wide-angle camera captures sharper images of moon landing sites
Dawn spacecraft captures image of asteroid with mountain bigger than Everest
Kinect for Windows SDK to be released by Microsoft in May
Vision guides robot to clear air ducts
Machine vision digitizes vintage films
All of this is pretty remarkable stuff and we're glad to see that it interested you, too. But what struck us as even more telling is the fact that you continue to look back at Vision Systems Design as a source for information that has an impact even after a year or more, as these "continually clicked" articles demonstrate:
EMVA releases enhanced GenICam standard for machine vision (2010)
Multisensor-equipped backpack renders 3-D images (2010)
Scanning Sensors (2010)
Matching Lenses and Sensors (2009)
Using fuzzy logic in image processing (2007)
Understanding image-interpolation techniques (2007)
Telecentric lenses make precise measurements (2007)
Vision system simplifies robotic fruit picking (2007)
Color-matching systems test visual quality (2006)
UV imaging opens new applications (2006)
So what can we look forward in 2012 and beyond for machine vision and imaging technologies? Check out editor Andy Wilson's December article on the future of machine vision and stay tuned.
-- By Carrie Meadows, Managing Editor, Vision Systems Design
