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Current Status of the Two New EMVA Standardisation Initiatives

Latest news on the current status of the two new EMVA standardisation initiatives. A VISION 2018 flashback:

Embedded Vision Interface Standard – Where do we currently stand with this technology and what can we expect in the future? Jochem Herrmann, President of the European Machine Vision Association, has the answer.

 

 

EMVA has decided to start a new standardization group on an open lens camera communication standard. What does this standard bring for the users and what can they expect from it? A comment by Erik B. Widding, Vice-Chairman, Open Lens Communication Standard.

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EMVA at VISION 2018

EMVA presents two new standardisation initiatives

As a clear sign of the still growing importance of machine vision technology, VISION 2018 concluded in November with spectacular growth figures for visitors and exhibitors. EMVA can only confirm the positive mood in the industry and is delighted about the high number of visitors at the International Vision Standards stand and the fully booked EMVA Vision Night 2018.

 

EMVA Press Conference VISION 2018 highlighting two new standardization initiatives

The EMVA press conference VISION 2018 highlighted the presentation of two important new vision standardisation initiatives:   The Embedded Vision Interface Standard and the Open Lens Communication Standard, both hosted by EMVA.

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EMVA Appoints Henning Staerk to Marketing Manager

With Henning Staerk, EMVA has gained an experienced marketing expert to further expand its growth course.

The European Machine Vision Association, EMVA, strengthens its marketing and appoints Henning Staerk as Marketing Manager. This will continue the growth course of the European Machine Vision Association. With the transfer of responsibility for marketing to Henning Staerk, the strategic importance of association marketing is also underlined.

Henning Staerk looks back on global experience in brand development and brand communication gained in management positions at well-known B2B and B2C companies such as Yamaha Electronics, Hitachi Consumer Electronics, Dell Computer, Hagenuk Telecommunications and Info AG (today: QSC). He was responsible for global marketing and European sales for Allied Vision, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of industrial cameras, and thus has many years of experience in the field of industrial image processing.

Most recently, Henning worked with his own consulting firm as an interim and project manager in the fields of customer experience management and go-to-market strategies for B2B companies:

“I am looking forward to the cooperation and the new challenge of supporting EMVA’s marketing. The worldwide market of industrial image processing remains exciting in its development. The representation of the interests of the European market participants by the umbrella association EMVA is becoming increasingly important in view of the continuing market growth. The expansion of the association’s marketing is the obvious next step on EMVA’s growth course”.

“With Henning Staerk, EMVA is pleased to appoint an experienced marketing expert who also has in-depth knowledge of the machine vision market. With his support, the significance of EMVA as the European umbrella association will be promoted and the services for our members further expanded,” says EMVA General Manager Thomas Lübkemeier.

 

Silicon Software moved into the new company headquarters in Mannheim

In September Silicon Software’s Headquarter relocates to a newly put up building in the business park Eastsite in Mannheim. Due to a steady growth of the employees up to meanwhile more than 50 colleagues the company fulfilled the wish for bigger facilities with flexible room partitioning. After the 20 years‘ company jubilee last year another reason to celebrate.

In Memoriam: Arnaud Darmont

EMVA Standards Manager died at age 39

The EMVA Board of Directors and the entire EMVA staff are shocked about the sudden and unexpected death of Arnaud Darmont who died on September 12th after a tragic accident in the White Sands National Monument in New Mexico/USA. “With the death of Arnaud, the EMVA and in more general the entire imaging industry lost a bright and driven person who contributed significantly to both educating and advancing the industry” said EMVA President Jochem Herrmann. “Arnaud will be terribly missed. Our thoughts are with his parents and his brother”.

Vision entrepreneur driven by education idea
Arnaud Darmont dedicated his entire professional life to the computer vision industry. After his degree in electronic engineering from University of Liège (Belgium) in 2002 he began to work in the field of CMOS image sensors and high dynamic range imaging. Arnaud combined technical enthusiasm for optoelectronics with human values which led him to found his own enterprise APHESA in 2008. He authored several publications and was author of the book “High Dynamic Range Imaging – Sensors and Architectures”, which was published in a first edition 2013. He was just about finishing up the second edition to appear this year. A strong focus of his work always was the dissemination of his knowledge within the vision community and to newcomers in the computer vision domain through trainings and custom electronics design of imaging devices. He already prepared the celebration of the 10 years anniversary of APHESA at the end of this month.

A passion for machine vision standardization
Since the very beginning of his professional career, Arnaud was an active and much valued member of the EMVA 1288 standardization group. “By his profound knowledge of image sensors and by his rich experience he helped to shape the EMVA 1288 standard to the globally used standard it is today. Arnaud was also busy advertising the standard all around the globe giving courses and educating the machine vision community”, said Prof. Dr. Bernd Jähne, Chair of the EMVA 1288 Standard Group and EMVA Board Member.
Starting the successful cooperation of his company APHESA with DELTATEC SA in 2017 Arnaud gained freedom to devote more of his professional time to education and standardization activities. As such, in December 2017 the EMVA was gifted to get him on board as Standards Manager. In this position he oversaw the development of EMVA standards, but also fostered cooperation with other imaging associations worldwide on the development and the dissemination of vision standards. “We all remember how Arnaud took this role with enthusiasm and high commitment. Though he served in this position for a bit less than a year, he facilitated the start of two new EMVA standards, and built bridges to other associations. As such, he established links with standards groups of IEEE and was an active member of SPIE and IS&T. The foundation he led during this time will be part of his legacy to the entire machine vision industry”, said EMVA President Jochem Herrmann.

Arnaud contributed to the life of his city community by being an active member of local associations. When his job gave him some freedom, Arnaud indulged his passion for photography and piloted private planes as hobby.

EMVA shocked by the sudden death of Arnaud Darmont

It is with deep regret to inform that our colleague Arnaud Darmont suffered a fatal accident during a trip in the United States.
The news of Arnaud’s death has reached us yesterday and the whole EMVA team is still shocked and extremely saddened.

Our thoughts are with his parents and family.

Thomas Lübkemeier
EMVA General Manager

EMVA hosts two new Standards

EMVA Standards Manager Arnaud Darmont reports major breakthroughs from the International Machine Vision Standards Meeting which took place mid of May in Frankfurt. The delegates approved to establish standard working groups for two new important machine vision standards that were both initiated and are now hosted by the EMVA.

The first one is an Open Lens Communication Standard that aims to create a standard electrical connection between the camera and the lens providing a standard connector, standard voltage, standard communication protocol and standard naming of the parameters; as well as providing feedback from the lens to the camera.

The second standard that was accepted is an Embedded Vision Interface Standard. It aims to build on and coordinate between the already existing standards SLVS EC which is hosted by the Japan Industrial Imaging Association (JIIA), and the standard MIPI CSI-2 for mobile devices. The new Embedded Vision Interface Standard will add so far missing functions in these standards, e.g. define a high-level protocol, drivers and standard connectors to plug a sensor module onto a processor module.

Both standards are pending the official approval by the G3 and still have preliminary names.

Regarding the already existing standards hosted by the EMVA an important step was made to draw the working groups of EMVA 1288 and GenICam closer by establishing a new Standard Features Naming Convention (SFNC) called “GenICam for EMVA 1288”. EMVA 1288 itself is expanding to NIR and UV light as well as polarization imaging which are completely new items to the standard.

Finally, the EMVA Standards Manager also collaborates with the IEEE P2020 standard group that develops a standard which is of high relevance in the automotive industry as it is used in park assistance systems, driver assistance systems and autonomous driving. This working group shows interest in applying the EMVA 1288 standard and to exchange experiences.

chii2018: the meeting point of the international hyperspectral imaging scene

For the third year, the hyperspectral imaging pioneer Perception Park invites experts and users from all over the world to the chii conference in Graz to discuss the latest developments in this technology and their use in industrial applications. The world’s only conference with a clear industry focus on the ground-breaking possibilities of hyperspectral image processing unites all stakeholders of this technology for interdisciplinary exchange.

chii2018 is based on three pillars: during the morning session on both conference days, the Collaboration Forum will feature 10-minute presentations by numerous industry representatives, providing a compact, well-founded overview of the latest developments in hyperspectral imaging.

The workshop on day 1 will be delivered by the European Machine Vision Association – EMVA and will deal with the topic “Characterization and Evaluation of Multi- and Hyperspectral Imaging Systems“.

An exhibition will run alongside the conference in which experts in industrial hyperspectral imaging present their latest technologies and allow visitors to experience these first hand.

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