We are pleased to announce that further new members have joined EMVA recently. We cordially welcome as new EMVA members IIM AG measurement + engineering from Germany, COGNIAC from California, USA and ihfood Vision Technology from Denmark.

David Austin, Sr Principal Engineer at Intel Corp., will give insights to flexible and practical AI for industrial deployment.

The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is pleased to announce that David Austin of Intel Corp. will open the Embedded Vision Europe Conference 2019 as Keynote Speaker.

Supported by Messe Stuttgart, the EMVA organizes the 2nd edition of the European conference on Embedded Vision, the Embedded VISION Europe, from 24-25 October 2019 at the ICS International Congress Center Stuttgart.

Keynote Abstract:

Industrial AI based solutions often struggle to keep up with the state of the art due to the nature of product development and validation cycles vs the speed at which the AI technology and understanding is advancing.  It doesn’t need to be this way.  Careful consideration of few important AI and computer vision tools and techniques can give outsized benefits relative to pool of available options.

In his talk, titled “Flexible and Practical AI for Industrial Deployment”, David will give his audience an overview as well as insights into some of the practical techniques that advance KPI’s like accuracy, latency, and cost. Attendee of the eVe 2019 conference will be able to take learnings straight to practical implementation, especially IIoT implementations in manufacturing.

About David Austin:

David Austin is a Sr Principal Engineer at Intel Corp working on AI based solutions for the industrial IoT market.  His work focuses on deep learning architecture design, traditional computer vision.  He has spent 19 years working in manufacturing related data science roles at Intel.  David was the 1st place winner in the 2nd Annual YouTube-8M Video Understanding Challenge, and is currently ranked #11 in the world competition rankings out of 112k competitors on the Kaggle data science platform.

About eVe 2019:

Embedded VISION Europe 2019 is the only conference in Europe having the focus exclusively on this disruptive technology. It shows the capability of hardware and software platforms; presents applications and markets for embedded vision and creates a platform for the exchange of information.

Speaker slots in Embedded Vision topics are still up for grabs

The conference program will feature a large number of top-notch speakers, who will cover the hot topics of Embedded Vision. We hereby cordially invite all interested parties to send presentation proposals for this conference via registrations on  https://goo.gl/forms/NTvxMsFj3zZ3xYig1

Table-top exhibition and opportunity for individual B2B meetings

The accompanying exhibition as well as the opportunity to arrange personal business meetings already at the registration complete the offer of Embedded Vision Europe as an ideal platform to deepen industry know-how and establishing new business contacts in the field of Embedded Vision.

Find more information here: www.embedded-vision-emva.org

For the fourth time the Control Vision Talks took place at the Control 2019 trade fair, organised by EMVA in partnership with trade fair organiser P.E. Schall and media partner inVISION.

Spectronet has recorded a large number of the presentations on video and has now published them. The more than 20 presentations give an overview of current topics in the fields of 3D image processing, optical metrology and spectral imaging. More … https://vimeo.com/showcase/6020156?page=1

After a successful debut of the Embedded VISION Europe Conference two years ago, the second edition will take place from 24-25 October 2019. The event will be held at the ICS International Congress Center Stuttgart again, directly at Stuttgart Airport.

The Embedded VISION Europe Conference is organised by EMVA (European Machine Vision Association) and supported by Messe Stuttgart as event partner.

Early Bird Registration ends June 30, 2019!

www.embedded-vision-emva.org

The Conference Program and Exhibition:
The conference program features a large number of top-class speakers who will speak on the industry leading topics of Embedded Vision.
During the conference, a limited number of tabletop booths including conference tickets will be offered. For registration to attend the conference and all information on the accompanying exhibition, please click here:

www.embedded-vision-emva.org

Call for Presentation Proposals:
A few selected speaker slots are still available for the conference. If you are interested in sharing your expertise with a top-notch audience of experts in the form of a presentation at Embedded Vision Europe 2019, we invite you to submit your proposal for a presentation here: www.embedded-vision-emva.org

Your submitted presentation proposal should fit to one of the Embedded Vision topics planned for the congress:

• Novel processor concepts for edge devices
• Deep Learning training data best practice
• Deep Learning use cases for manufacturing
• Novel image acquisition concepts
• Extending the visible: 3D, hyperspectral, IR
• Cloud concepts for automation
• Applications in autonomous navigation
• Applications in factory automation
• Applications in logistics, warehousing
• Applications in agriculture

Take a look at what Embedded Vision Europe 2019 has to offer and ensure your participation now!

If you have any questions, the EMVA staff at eve@emva.org will be happy to assist you.

We look forward to hearing from you quickly.

Best regards
Your EMVA Team

The 4th edition of EMVA’s European Machine Vision Forum is taking place 5-6 September in the Palais de la Bourse, Lyon, France. The forum offers the perfect platform where Research meets Industry and the focal topic this time is ‘Photonics and Machine Vision: Going Deep into Integration‘.

To get an impression about the forum please take a look at topics treated in previous editions:

• 1st Forum (Heidelberg, Germany):
  Prof. Joachim Weickert (University of Saarbrücken, Germany),
  “Image compression with diffusion-based inpainting”
• 2nd Forum (Vienna, Austria):
  Panel discussion
• 3rd Forum (Bologna, Italy):
  Sébastien Frasse-Sombet (Sofradir, Grenoble, France),
  “Using Uncooled InGaAs SWIR Image Sensors for Solving New Challenges in Machine Vision”

Find all further details and registration at www.european-forum-emva.org

SPS IPC Drives Italy, which took place from May 26 – 28, 2019 in Parma, is the yearly trade show bringing automation suppliers and manufactures together and covering the whole range of products, from electrical components to complete integrated automation systems.

First time introduced in 2016 the ‘Parma Vision Night’ was again well received by visitors and exhibitors of the SPS show in Parma. The evening is organized by SPS Italia and European Machine Vision Association, EMVA. Representatives of local Italian vision players and globally acting corporations met and enjoyed the networking on 27 May at the Academia Barilla located in the city center of Parma.

The Parma Vision Night is a social networking opportunity to meet friends, colleagues and partners, all spiced up with the taste of Parma culinary tradition.

The 17th EMVA Business Conference 2019 from 16th to 18th May, which this time took place in Copenhagen, was again attended by more than 100 representatives of the entire international vision industry.

The conference program once again impressed with top-class speakers and contributions on highly relevant topics of technology and industry. The guests from all over the world enjoyed an extensive offer for interactive networking and interesting programs. Read more here …

The Parma Vision Night, the yearly appointment dedicated to the industry of vision systems, returns for the fourth time.

The appointment is on Monday 27 May at 8.00 PM at the Academia Barilla. We choose the Biblioteca Gastronomica as beautiful setting for this moment of networking and tasting Parma gastronomic traditions. The Parma Vision Night is a social networking opportunity to meet friends, colleagues and partners, all spiced up with the taste of Parma culinary tradition.

The evening is organized by SPS Italia and European Machine Vision Association – EMVA.

SPS IPC Drives Italy is the yearly trade show bringing automation suppliers and manufactures together and covering the whole range of products, from electrical components to complete integrated automation systems. A benchmark for the Italian market where efficiency, productivity, competitiveness and innovation meet.

Get more information here …

EMVA Annual Business Conference 2019 – Speaker Announcement Part V

We proudly announce that Dr. Bernd Liepert, President of euRobotics and former Chief Innovation Officer at KUKA, will open the 17th edition of EMVA’s annual Business Conference.

The opening keynote titled ‘Robotics needs Vision – Vision needs Robotics’ will give insights to the world of robotics and especially to the ongoing projects to uptake robotics in Europe supported by the European Commission.

Dr. Bernd Liepert is the President of euRobotics aisbl, the international non-profit association for all stakeholders in European robotics which was founded in September 2012 and has become the private side of SPARC, the European Public-Private Partnership in Robotics in 2013. As president of these associations Dr. Liepert has been leading the European robotics community and representing it at high political levels since 2008, where he became President of EUROP, the European Robotics Technology Platform.

Dr. Liepert earned his diploma in mathematics in 1990 at the University of Augsburg and his honorary doctor degree at University of Magdeburg in 2008. Since 1990, he has worked in various positions for KUKA. From 1990 to 1996 he worked as mathematician and developer at KUKA Schweissanlagen + Roboter GmbH before he took charge as head of research and development of the newly founded company KUKA Roboter GmbH until 1997. From 1998 to 1999 he was a member of KUKA Roboter GmbH Board of Management, responsible for development and design.

From 2000 to 2009 Dr. Liepert was CEO of KUKA Roboter GmbH. From 2010 to January 2015 he was CTO of KUKA AG, responsible for technology and development of the whole KUKA Group. Afterwards he was nominated the Chief Innovation Officer at KUKA AG, a worldwide leading manufacturer of industrial robots and provider of robot-based automation solutions. In this position he could contribute his vast robotics experience at the interface between technological innovation and the market.

Abstract of  Bernd’s presentation:

Robots operate in the world around us and vision is their primary sense. Robotics has the potential to impact on every major sector with an estimated worldwide revenue of up to €65Bn by 2020. euRobotics is dedicated to promoting the uptake of robotics in Europe. It is the private side of the SPARC Public Private Partnership in robotics with the European Commission which invests €700M in robotics R&D&I during Horizon 2020 leveraging some €2.1Bn of private side investment. European robotics research and innovation is strong, particularly in service-based applications. For robotics, vision means more than sensing it is the integration with interpretation, analysis and learning, edge-based AI, built into dynamic mechatronic systems that can deliver a step change in object grasping and manipulation, in inspection and for human robot interaction. There is a long and strong relationship between robotics and vision and a shared future we should explore.

 

The EMVA Business Conference will take place 16-18 May 2019 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Find all details and register at: BUSINESS-CONFERENCE-EMVA.ORG

EMVA is pleased to welcome its guests at the Business Conference 2019 in Copenhagen from 16 to 18 May. The program of the conference is packed with many interesting presentations from top class speakers, which we will introduce successively.

The EMVA is looking forward to the presentations by Dr. Ren Wu, founder and CEO at NovuMind and Tue Moerck, Managing Director at IHFood A/S

Dr. Ren Wu, Founder and CEO at NovuMind

‘Processors for Intelligent Vision Devices’

Dr. Ren Wu is the Founder and CEO of NovuMind Inc, where he is leading the effort to push the frontier of artificial intelligence (AI) via high-performance and heterogeneous computing. His dream is to improve people’s life using NovuMind’s AI technologies.
He was the distinguished scientist at Baidu Research where he and his team have designed and built a supercomputer dedicate for deep learning and have achieved world’s best results on many image recognition tasks.
Prior to joining Baidu, Ren served as chief software architect of Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) at AMD. Earlier, he was the principal investigator of CUDA Research Center at HP Labs, where he is widely known for his pioneering work in using GPUs to accelerate big data analytics and large-scale machine learning algorithms.
Ren is also known for his early work on artificial intelligence. His Xiangqi (Chinese chess) program was twice world champion and have dominated computer Xiangqi field for more than a decade. He was the first person to perform systematic research computationally on Xiangqi endgames with astonishing discoveries.

Find all details and register at: BUSINESS-CONFERENCE-EMVA.ORG

Tue Moerck, Managing Director at IHFood A/S

‘Vision in the Food Industry’

With more than 20+ years of professional experience with optical measurement systems at different positions, research, development, production, product marketing, sales and general management, Mr. Moerck has the theoretical and the practical understanding of business processes.

After his diploma he worked with research and development at a high technical level where after getting into various technical management positions. Tue has been involved with and signing responsible for developing several well selling products in the field of optical measurement systems and cameras. He introduced new technology and was part of starting up new business segments.
The commercial experience was added to the equation at the camera manufacturer JAI where Tue held managerial positions in sales & marketing and where he has been member of the management team for years.

Find all details and register at: BUSINESS-CONFERENCE-EMVA.ORG