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The EMVA Young Professional Award is an annual award endowed with 1500 Euros to honor the outstanding and innovative work of a student or a young professional in the field of machine vision or image processing.

It is the goal of the European Machine Vision Association EMVA to support further innovation in our industry, to contribute to the important aspect of dedicated machine vision education, and to provide a bridge between research and industry.

The winner of the award will be announced at the flagship 20th EMVA Business Conference 2022 taking place May 12th – 14th in Brussels, Belgium, and will have the opportunity to present the awarded work to the machine vision industry leaders from Europe and abroad. The presentation will then be published by the international machine vision press. Read more ›

The EMVA Conference unites business leaders and technical experts within the machine vision industry from Europe and around the world to present and discuss the trends and challenges of our business. It provides a unique platform in Europe for networking, establishing contacts and exchanging ideas. The EMVA Business Conference sets the course for developing and strengthening our industry in Europe.

Meet CEOs, managing directors, corporate strategists, marketing directors, technical managers and other executives of our business to exchange market intelligence and news of innovative technologies.

Cancellation policies of the EMVA and the conference hotel will reflect the ongoing uncertainty due to the pandemic situation. Don't miss to get your seat now!

EMVA member and Israeli startup TriEye announced it has raised $74 million in a new round of financing to take automotive perception systems – the key for every highly automated vehicle – to the next level.
Despite the many sensors installed in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles (AVs), they remain vulnerable in darkness, dust, fog, and other adverse weather conditions. Improving the robustness of perception has become essential to safer driving and maintaining safe roads for other cars, cyclists, and pedestrians. Tel-Aviv-based TriEye claims its short-wave infrared (SWIR) sensing technology can solve low-visibility issues facing the automotive industry. Read more ›

Intelligent, camera-based tool protection in stamping and forming technology

Boosting efficiency through digitalisation - almost no branch of industry can evade it. Also operators of press shops are increasingly networking their production. But - regardless of whether it's a single press or press lines - it's not always necessary to replace the entire plant in order to stay up to date. Retrofitting existing lines, true to the principle of "sensible evolution instead of cost-intensive revolution", is often the order of the day. With Visual Die Protection, Schuler Pressen GmbH from Göppingen offers a solution for avoiding expensive die damage and its consequential costs in stamping and forming technology - retrofittable for existing lines. Equipped with industrial cameras from IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH and intelligent software, the production process can be monitored as required. Read more ›

The Harrier 40x AF-Zoom Camera is fitted with a 2MP Sony CMOS sensor and offers real-time full HD 1080p – 60/30 fps or 720p – 60/30 fps video output. It’s compatible with all our Harrier camera interface boards, which can convert the camera’s LVDS output to video formats including 3G-SDI, HD-VLC, USB3 (UVC), HDMI and, coming soon, H.264 IP Ethernet and MIPI CSI-2.
Special features of this autofocus-zoom block camera include Digital Image Stabilization, Digital Noise Reduction (2D+3D), Privacy Mask Function, High Light Compensation, Intelligent Motion Detection, Defog Function and Day & Night mode (Infrared Cut filter Removal, ICR). Serial VISCA or Pelco-D/P Control Protocol are available to control the camera. Read more ›

Conventional 2D scanning methods cannot distinguish between pseudo defects – dirt on the surface of the manufactured part, for instance – and actual 3D defects such as scratches, ridges, spikes, pinholes or wrinkles. At the same time, existing 3D inspection methods are not able to handle high speeds, neither for single objects nor for high transport speeds of endless material.
xposure:photometry addresses this by combining very fast photometric stereo (PS) imaging and smart camera technology to highlight inline, actual small 3D defects on the object's surface, while distinguishing them from pseudo defects. Read more ›

When it comes to making the quality control of components in the electronics industry even more reliable, precision for detecting the smallest defects has top priority. To optimize precisely this inspection process, AT – Automation Technology has equipped its 3D sensors with globally unique features, enabling a whole new level of inspection with its new C6 series. So,the days are over when the customer only had to use 3D point clouds for orientation. The crucial new feature here is MultiPart, which allows up to ten different features to be output simultaneously, regardless of pixel format or algorithm. Read more ›

Teledyne DALSA is pleased to announce that its Falcon4-CLHS M4480 camera, based on the Teledyne e2v Lince 11.2M monochrome sensor, is now in full production.

The new Falcon4-CLHS model delivers an easy-to-use CLHS interface camera that has been specifically engineered for industrial imaging applications requiring high-speed data transfer. This latest model can reach a frame rate of up to 609 fps in full 11.2 MP resolution, and multiple thousands of frames per second in partial scan mode. When using the sensor’s binning mode, it can reach a very large pixel full well capacity of over 160Ke. Read more ›

Several vision system applications like fast moving inspection lines, semiconductor fabs, intelligent traffic systems, sports analytics and volumetric capture require high resolution, high FPS and transfer of data to deliver better outcomes. For vision system engineers looking to improve output using faster framerates and higher resolution machine vision cameras, upgrading from 1GigE to 10GigE is an obvious option. However, according to research from the AIA (Automated Imaging Association), adoption has been fairly slow.
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LUCID Vision Labs is pleased to announce that the new Helios™2+ 3D Time-of-Flight (ToF) camera has entered series production.

Helios2+ is an advanced version of the Helios2 ToF camera offering two new on-camera depth processing modes: High Dynamic Range Mode (HDR) and High-Speed Mode. The HDR Mode combines multiple exposures in the phase domain to provide accurate depth information in high contrast, complex scenes, containing both high and low reflectivity objects. The High-Speed Mode enables depth perception using a single-phase measurement, allowing for faster acquisition speed and higher frame rates compatible with moving object perception. Read more ›

Macnica ATD Europe now offers the Event-based vision sensor (“EVS”) from its long-term distribution partner, Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation (“Sony”). The two sensors IMX636 and IMX637 were made possible through collaboration between Sony and Prophesee, another distribution partner of Macnica ATD Europe. Macnica ATD Europe as a prime distribution partner of both Sony and Prophesee covers the full cooperation on the EVS technology and offers technical support as well as the free loan of evaluation kits in different versions from first “hands on” evaluation to full performance evaluation (available in Q4). Read more ›