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EMVA presents industry forum at LogiMAT 2023

Topic: Machine Vision Enabling Logistics 4.0

Barcelona, February 23rd, 2023. The EMVA is proud to announce a series of vision-tech presentations during LogiMAT – International Trade Fair for Intralogistics Solutions and Process Management at Stuttgart Trade Fair Center. Under the title ‘Machine Vision Enabling Logistics 4.0’ four machine vision enterprises will present solutions specifically shaped to the requirements in logistics. The forum session takes place on Tuesday, 25 April 2023 from 3:00 – 3:50 p.m. and covers the following speeches:

  • Schneider-Kreuznach Group => ‘Imaging Lenses in Logistics in focus‘
    This presentation discusses current technologies and highlights of imaging lenses for Logistics 4.0
  • Allied Vision Technologies GmbH => ‘Vision solutions for Logistic vehicles and warehouse automation‘
    Person and pothole detection for safety for “Driver Assistant Systems and Functions” on Forklifts; object/ sign/ shelf sensing or load observation on AGVs and AMRs; pick and place applications on Robots.
  • LUCID Vision Labs, Inc. => ‘Increase efficiency in logistics automation with the latest 3D Time-of-Flight cameras‘
    The presentation addresses how Time-of-Flight (ToF) can bring benefits to a vision system by reducing 3D application costs, increasing productivity, and making applications more efficient in the facility.
  • LMI Technologies GmbH => ‘3D Smart Sensors for Packaging and Logistics Applications‘
    The presentation showcases how LMI’s Gocator 2490 laser profiler provides a fast and accurate method for 3D measurement of parcel dimensions.

‘Digitization of the logistics market is a macro trend with profound implications for supply chain management, material handling and warehouse operations. Machine vision is making an important contribution to the implementation of this transformation by supporting solutions for identification, tracking, measurement, robot guidance and many other important tasks. In this forum, EMVA will present the most exciting vision tech applications for logistics,‘ confirms EMVA Business Development Manager Oliver Scheel, who will moderate the forum.

The event is free of charge for LogiMAT trade fair visitors. A registration is not required.


About EMVA The European Machine Vision Association is a non-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe. The association was founded in 2003 to promote the development and use of vision technology in all sectors, and represents members from within Europe, North America, and Asia. The EMVA is open for all types of organizations having a stake in machine vision, computer vision, embedded vision or imaging technologies: manufacturers, system and machine builders, integrators, distributors, consultancies, research organizations and academia. All members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the networking, cooperation, standardization, and the numerous and diverse activities of the EMVA. The EMVA is the host of four global machine vision standards: The two widely established standards GenICam and EMVA 1288 as well as the two standardization initiatives Open Optics Camera Interface (OOCI) and Embedded Vision Interface Standard (emVision).

‘Kamaros’ is unveiled as the official name of the Khronos / EMVA Embedded Camera System API

In March 2022, The Khronos® Group and the EMVA joined forces to establish a Khronos working group to develop an open royalty-free API standard for controlling cameras and sensors in embedded, mobile, industrial, XR, automotive, and scientific markets.
The design of the API is making significant progress and will include loadable layers and multiple language bindings as well as flexible, low-level control over camera functionality. In addition to the work on the API specification, the formal name of the initiative has now been unveiled: ‘Kamaros’ (pronounced Kam-ah-ross).

“Establishing a unique and trademarkable brand in parallel with drafting the specification itself is an important part of the standardization process,” said Neil Trevett, Khronos President. “Early and consistent branding builds industry awareness and recognition that will help promote the wide adoption of Kamaros when it ships.”
Kamaros evolved from an extensive exploratory process involving over 70 companies working together from March to December 2021 to forge an industry consensus on the need, terminology, scope, requirements, and design methodology for a new open standard camera system API.

Any company is welcome to join Khronos for a full voice and a vote in the evolution of the Kamaros standard. In addition, EMVA members are invited to join the Kamaros Advisory panel at no charge to provide feedback on specification drafts and design directions. Kamaros is expected to be of particular interest to sensor and camera manufacturers, silicon vendors, embedded and mobile platform vendors, and software developers working on vision and sensor processing.
Read more at https://www.khronos.org/blog/khronos-unveils-kamaros-as-the-name-for-the-embedded-camera-system-api-and-working-group

wenglor sensoric group Joins EMVA

In November 2022, the German based developer and manufacturer of 2D and 3D Machine Vision products, wenglor, has joined the European Machine Vision Association.

As a full-service provider, wenglor offers Smart Cameras, Vision Sensors, 2D/3D Profile Sensors, 3D Sensors, Code Scanners, manifold Illumination solutions and Software for industrial image processing applications. Since many years, the family owned company constantly increased its technology knowledge and hence its product portfolio – which now contains several thousand Machine Vision products in more than seven categories.

“As a member of EMVA, we will continue to innovate this fastly growing industry sector with our passion and knowledge”, says wenglor’s General Manager Rafael Baur. Restructured in 2021, the freshly installed business unit got bigger and stronger as ever before with now having more than 100 hardware and software engineers. “By having combined and expanded the hardware and software department under one roof, particularly in the area of Machine Vision, synergies can be used before and during the development phases of new products. The close integration of both disciplines has long since arrived on the market.” Since then, many innovative wenglor products have amazed the global Machine Vision market.

The solutions of the wenglor sensoric group enable the trends of Industry 4.0 as well as the Internet of Things, 3D technologies and robotics. In doing so, they conserve resources and increase the quality and safety of the manufactured products. The second-generation owner-managed family business is represented worldwide with 26 subsidiaries in 46 countries. In addition to the company headquarters in Tettnang, the group of companies with over 1,000 employees also develops and produces its multi-patented products in Munich, Sibiu (Romania), Perth (Scotland) and La Chevrolière (France).

New Chair GenICam Standard Working Group elected

Michael Schmidt takes over from long-term serving Dr. Fritz Dierks    

Barcelona,​ December 19th, 2022. During the last International Vision Standards Meeting (IVSM) in Tokyo/Japan the GenICam Working Group has elected Michael Schmidt as new Chair of the Standard Working Group. Michael Schmidt leads a camera development team at Basler AG. He takes over the position from Dr. Fritz Dierks who has been leading the GenICam working group for almost 18 years and chose not to stand for another reelection to initiate the process of rejuvenating the board of the GenICam standard working group. The GenICam standard is hosted by the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA).

“I would like to thank Fritz for his relentless work driving standardization in the machine vision industry throughout all these years. The impact of his strategic vision on the industry is a lasting contribution to standardization as one of the core pillars for the success of machine vision technology,” says Michael Schmidt.

Also, the EMVA Board of Directors thanks Dr. Dierks for his extraordinary and long-term engagement to serve the machine vision industry.


About EMVA The European Machine Vision Association is a non-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe. The association was founded in 2003 to promote the development and use of vision technology in all sectors, and represents members from within Europe, North America, and Asia. The EMVA is open for all types of organizations having a stake in machine vision, computer vision, embedded vision or imaging technologies: manufacturers, system and machine builders, integrators, distributors, consultancies, research organizations and academia. All members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the networking, cooperation, standardization, and the numerous and diverse activities of the EMVA. The EMVA is the host of four global machine vision standards: The two widely established standards GenICam and EMVA 1288 as well as the two standardization initiatives Open Optics Camera Interface (OOCI) and Embedded Vision Interface Standard (emVision).

Review 5th European Machine Vision Forum in Cork, Ireland

Unique interchange between research and industry continues 2023 in the Netherlands.

Barcelona,​ November 11th, 2022. Organized by the European Machine Vision Association, the fifth European Machine Vision Forum end of October in Cork/Ireland once again brought together industry and academic machine vision experts in a unique setting.

Through the hosting Tyndall Institute, the European Machine Vision Forum became a door opener of its own kind for all attendees for a deep dive into the vivid Irish Vision Tech Ecosystem covering both academic and industrial activities. This included a broad spectrum of vision-tech activities ranging from driver assistance and autonomous driving to manufacturing and quality assurance of microelectronics; all in top-notch equipped research and production facilities.

One highlight of the conference agenda was the Keynote on Terahertz Light-Field Imaging given by Professor Ullrich Pfeiffer from the University of Wuppertal who discussed challenges in beam generation and sensing as well as evaluation and introduced new approaches to solve these encounters which could also give new impulse in the visible light spectrum. The broad spectrum of machine vision technology was further covered by presentations dealing with multi-/hyperspectral image acquisition as well as real-time 3D data acquisition; high quality components for image acquisition; but also energy efficiency as a growing requirement as well as hardware support for machine vision algorithms which was highlighted in the second Keynote presenting emerging photonic platforms for developing optical non-von Neumann computing devices. Furthermore, the list of topics also included the currently very heavily researched topic of machine learning with neuronal networks. Here it was shown how this promising approach can be brought together with proven concepts, e.g. from measurement technology and computer science.

The 6th European Machine Vision Forum is already scheduled to take place 2023 in Wageningen/The Netherlands in cooperation with Wageningen University and Research. More details will be announced soon.

 

Social Media feedback post of a 2022 participant in Cork/Ireland:

“Enriching presentations on current vision topics coupled with insights into local Irish research, industry and (pub) culture – the 5th European Machine Vision Forum in Cork was definitely worth the trip! I am already looking forward to the next forum at Wageningen University.”

 

About the European Machine Vision Forum

The European Machine Vision Forum is an annual event of the European Machine Vision Association – EMVA. The aim is to foster interaction between the machine vision industry and academic research to learn from each other, discuss the newest research results as well as challenges from applications, learn about emerging application fields, and to discuss research cooperation between industry and academic institutes. The overall aim is to accelerate innovation by translating new re­search results faster into practice. The forum is directed to scientists, development engineers, software and hardware engineers, and programmers both from research and industry.


About EMVA The European Machine Vision Association is a non-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe. The association was founded in 2003 to promote the development and use of vision technology in all sectors, and represents members from within Europe, North America, and Asia. The EMVA is open for all types of organizations having a stake in machine vision, computer vision, embedded vision or imaging technologies: manufacturers, system and machine builders, integrators, distributors, consultancies, research organizations and academia. All members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the networking, cooperation, standardization, and the numerous and diverse activities of the EMVA. The EMVA is the host of four global machine vision standards: The two widely established standards GenICam and EMVA 1288 as well as the two standardization initiatives Open Optics Camera Interface (OOCI) and Embedded Vision Interface Standard (emVision).

The inVISION Days – Digital Conference for Machine Vision – is back and will take place again in 2022.

From November 29 to December 1, 2022, 36 presentations, three keynotes, six EMVA Vision Pitches and three panel discussions will present the latest trends in Cameras & Optics, Embedded Vision & AI and Robot Vision & Bin Picking. Registration for inVISION Days is free and also provides access to all videos of the presentations after the conference (video-on-demand).

Dotphoton AG becomes EMVA member

Dotphoton is a Swiss technology company that delivers innovative image compression solutions for big image data. Dotphoton’s unique set of algorithms and cutting-edge approach to camera calibration enables file size reduction by a factor of 5-8, preserving the raw quality of images.

EMVA welcomes Oversonic Robotics

Oversonic Robotics is a leading company in cognitive humanoid robotics founded in 2020 with an entrepreneurial vision and goal of progress and well-being: make the benefits of the future available to all by developing and improving the cognitive capabilities of artificial intelligence and creating innovative solutions and applications in industry and healthcare. Our mission is to support people who perform the most repetitive, dangerous and strenuous jobs by providing technological solutions that complement people’s daily lives while being environmentally friendly.

International Vision Night 2022 on 3 October

Registration open for EMVA-Networking event on the eve of VISION 2022

Barcelona/Stuttgart, September 6th, 2022. The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is pleased to invite to the 13th International Vision Night 2022 takes place on 03 October in the microbrewery of the Parkhotel Stuttgart Messe/Airport.

As the perfect attunement to the eagerly anticipated show days, the International Vision Night on the evening prior to the VISION 2022 opening offers the perfect mixture of networking and celebrating in a relaxed atmosphere. Since usually the international machine vision scene has already arrived in Stuttgart, this evening offers the perfect opportunity to meet and talk to business partners, colleagues and friends.

EMVA-members and non-members are cordially invited to join the relaxed get-together of machine vision experts from all over the world. More details on the event and how to register for the International Vision Night which is usually booked out rather soon can be found at www.vision-night-emva.org.

 


About EMVA The European Machine Vision Association is a non-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe. The association was founded in 2003 to promote the development and use of vision technology in all sectors, and represents members from within Europe, North America, and Asia. The EMVA is open for all types of organizations having a stake in machine vision, computer vision, embedded vision or imaging technologies: manufacturers, system and machine builders, integrators, distributors, consultancies, research organizations and academia. All members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the networking, cooperation, standardization, and the numerous and diverse activities of the EMVA. The EMVA is the host of four global machine vision standards: The two widely established standards GenICam and EMVA 1288 as well as the two standardization initiatives Open Optics Camera Interface (OOCI) and Embedded Vision Interface Standard (emVision).

Infrared camera producer Emberion joins EMVA

Emberion produces high performance visible to short wavelength (VIS-SWIR) infrared cameras with its unique nanomaterial based sensor solution and custom CMOS read out integrated circuit.  Emberion focuses on industrial machine vision and currently Emberion VS20 VGA camera is available for orders.