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Machine vision as a key enabling technology for intralogistics at the EMVA member booth and at the expert forum at LogiMAT 2025

Barcelona, January 29th, 2025. Cameras have become indispensable in logistics for upgrading processes and increasing efficiency; from AI-supported product identification to autonomous conveyor platforms and fully automated warehouses. At LogiMAT 2025, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) will once again provide detailed information in two exhibition areas about machine vision as key enabling technology for the intralogistics sector.

EMVA joint stand at LogiMAT 2025
At the member booth in Hall 2, EMVA member companies will be showcasing their solution expertise for machine vision applications in intralogistics. This year, the companies ADVANTECH Europe B.V.; Roboception GmbH; OPT Machine Vision GmbH; Effilux SAS; Smart Vision Lights and Murrelektronik GmbH are amongst the co-exhibitors. Visitors to the stand with and without machine vision experience are welcome to talk to the company experts on site about specific projects as well as the fundamental advantages and possible applications of machine vision in intralogistics. EMVA will also be presenting its own range of services and annual events to visitors. Location: Hall 2, Stand C18.

Expert forum in the LogiMAT Arena
In the expert forum of the LogiMAT Arena (Atrium East Entrance), a series of short presentations hosted by EMVA will present the most exciting possibilities at the interface of machine vision and intralogistics. EMVA member companies will clearly demonstrate how these innovative solutions with high user benefits can improve automation in intralogistics and how AI and machine vision can optimize logistics processes. When: Tuesday, 11th March from 15:00-15:50 p.m.


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.

7th European Machine Vision Forum – Key Takeaways

Barcelona/Spain, November 29th, 2024. In line with this year’s focus topic, the 7th European Machine Vision Forum on November 7-8 in Mulhouse which was organized by the EMVA offered inspiring insights into methods and applications of computer vision for human-machine interaction. Among the topics presented and discussed were gaze estimation in industrial assembly situations, the use of brain activity as an additional input modality, operating interfaces of vision systems and special features of mobile systems. This year’s contributions once again demonstrated a high quality of methodology and applications. All of the contributions contained aspects that inspired the participants to further pursue in their daily work.

Diversity of technical approaches
In the context of the focus topic, this year’s forum also demonstrated the diversity of approaches, methods and applications of machine vision technologies. Topics that were compiled into separate sessions with several submissions included image-based 3D recognition of objects and the environment; machine vision on mobile systems and embedded systems; image acquisition methods (e.g. using polarimetry and multispectral image acquisition); and machine learning, here with a focus on synthetically generated training data and a contribution on the “intelligence” of AI systems.

Main topics of the keynotes
All three keynote speeches dealt with issues that are currently subject of lively discussion in the industry. Jean-Pierre Chambard from Holo3, for example, focused on the transfer of research results into industrial applications. His quintessence: before good ideas can be implemented in industry, they need to be put into practice alongside their scientific basis, not least taking into account the requirements of the users. Maria-Theresa Licka (MAIWY and University of Kaiserslautern) focused her keynote speech on machine vision solutions on mobile devices. Especially when it comes to applications that rely on machine learning, innovative solutions are required that take into account the boundary conditions of mobile systems; this was the tenor of her presentation. The evaluation of endoscopic image data in medical diagnostics was the topic of Christian Daul’s (Université de Lorraine/CRAN) keynote speech. 2D and 3D reconstruction from image data, using the example of endoscopic examination of the stomach, improves interpretability for medical diagnosis by providing a more complete image of the organ. This combination of computer vision and human expertise results in a significant increase in performance.

Accompanying exhibition and local vision players
The presentations were complemented by an accompanying exhibition in which companies and institutions presented new hardware, methods and systems. The local machine vision community was also represented with lectures and short presentations, highlighting how machine vision is an important part of measurement and automation technology in companies and institutions in the Mulhouse area. The event location at the “École Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Sud-Alsace” ENSISA on the campus of the “Université de Haute Alsace” UHA provided a perfect setting for this, which could be visited during a tour of the laboratories.


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 Founded in 2003, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is a not-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe that 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. The EMVA hosts four international vision standards, and all members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the dedicated networking, standardization, and cooperation activities of the EMVA. www.emva.org

EMVA lifts EMVA 1288 Standard to ISO Level

International experts are invited to join the ISO-TC42-Working Group 28.

Barcelona/Spain, November 22nd, 2024. Based on the positive and ongoing evolution towards more and more matured applications of vision technologies, in specific cameras and image sensors, the EMVA Board of Directors, representing the association’s members, has decided to lift the EMVA 1288 Standard up to an international standardization level. Consequently in 2023 the EMVA proposed the EMVA 1288 Standard to become an ISO Standard. In October 2024 the item proposal got accepted by the ISO Technical Committee 42 ‘Photography’ and the specific working group WG 28 has been founded and initiated its work. International experts are invited to bring in their expertise by joining the ISO-TC42-WG28.

Standards are backbone of machine vision industry
“Establishing international standards has been and will be crucial for the successful application of vision technologies not only in the industrial world but increasingly also in logistics, traffic, medical and several other user segments”, says EMVA General Manager Thomas Lübkemeier. Already in 2005, the first module of the EMVA 1288 Standard was officially released by the members and contributors of the EMVA hosted working group. Meanwhile the ‘Standard for Measurement and Presentation of Specifications for Machine Vision Sensors and Cameras’ continuously has been further developed and the Release 4.1 is close to be finalized. “The EMVA 1288 Standard today is well accepted and especially camera producers worldwide apply the standard in their production lines and quality assurance departments”, Thomas Lübkemeier confirms.

Experts invited to contribute
The ISO – International Organization for Standardization is a network of 172 national standards bodies. ISO members are the foremost standards organizations in their country and there is only one member per country. Each member represents ISO in its country and is entitled to nominate experts into the various ISO working groups.
Experts motivated to share their expertise to the ISO-24942 initiative may find more details on how to join at EMVA’s website and of course via the official ISO channels.


About EMVA Founded in 2003, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is a not-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe that 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. The EMVA hosts four international vision standards, and all members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the dedicated networking, standardization, and cooperation activities of the EMVA. www.emva.org

7th European Machine Vision Forum gathers Research and Industry in Mulhouse, France

Focal Topic addresses Challenges and Chances in Computer Vision for Human-Machine Interaction

Barcelona/Spain, October 23rd, 2024. Hosted by the EMVA, the seventh European Machine Vision Forum on November 7 – 8 in Mulhouse, France, once again brings together machine vision experts from academia and industry for mutual exchange in a unique setting. The on-site host this year is École Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs Sud-Alsace (ENSISA) of the Université de Haute-Alsace.

This time the focal topic is “Challenges and Opportunities in Computer Vision for Human-Machine Interaction”. The Chair of the European Machine Vision Forum, Professor Michael Heizmann, explains the intention behind the choice of topic: “While machine vision often focuses on the automation of monitoring, control and inspection tasks without human intervention, this year’s focus is on integrating humans as part of an overall system. This is relevant in many application areas, e.g. for assembly tasks in industry, but also when driving vehicles or playing computer games. Some technical issues are relevant in all of these domains, such as the choice of suitable sensor technology, the selection and parameterization of image processing methods and dealing with the always variable appearance of people. Issues such as the consideration of personal rights also often play an important role. At the forum, such aspects will be addressed in presentations and poster contributions. In addition, current research results and new applications in the entire field of machine vision will be presented.”

The first keynote lecture of the event is titled “Optical Measurements: From the Laboratory to Industry” and will be given by Jean-Pierre Chambard, HOLO3 Research Centre, Saint-Louis, France. The afternoon session of the first conference day will be opened by the second keynote speaker Maria-Theresa Licka of MAIMY and University of Kaiserslautern, Germany talking about “Machine Vision Solutions on Mobile Devices – Scaling Human-Machine Interaction”.

In his keynote talk on the second day of the event Christian Daul, CRAN, University of Lorraine and CNRS, Nancy, France will talk about “Improving Endoscopic Data Acquisition and Interpretation using 2D and 3D Mosaicing Algorithms for Poor Image Content”.

In addition to that, more than a dozen top-notch presentations will be given by representatives from industry and academia highlighting various aspects of the focal topic “Challenges and Chances in Computer Vision for Human-Machine Interaction”.

For more information on the forum, visit www.european-forum-emva.org.


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 Founded in 2003, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is a not-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe that 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. The EMVA hosts four international vision standards, and all members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the dedicated networking, standardization, and cooperation activities of the EMVA. www.emva.org

EMVA activities at VISION 2024

International VISION Night 2024 on 7 October
International Machine Vision Standards Booth in hall 8

Barcelona/Spain, September 11th, 2024. VISION 2024, the leading international trade fair for machine vision takes place 8-10 October in Stuttgart. The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is pleased to announce that two well established EMVA events around VISION will once again attract the attention of the trade fair audience and exhibitors.

International VISION Night 2024 – Networking event on the eve of VISION
Organized by the EMVA, the 14th International VISION Night is taking place on October 7th, 2024, in the microbrewery of the Parkhotel Stuttgart Messe/Airport. As the perfect attunement to the busy trade show days, the International VISION Night on the evening prior to the VISION 2024 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 can be found at www.vision-night-emva.org.

International Machine Vision Standards Booth
During VISION 2024 the EMVA exhibits as leading organizer at the International Machine Vision Standards Booth, an initiative of several international vision organizations (A3, CMVU, EMVA, JIIA and VDMA). In hall 8, booth 8E20, machine vision experts present the most commonly used digital interface standards in the industry in their current versions and stand by for advice on which standard should be used best for a certain application.

The EMVA is looking forward to welcome machine vision experts and all parties interested in vision-tech at the two events.


About EMVA Founded in 2003, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is a not-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe that 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. The EMVA hosts four international vision standards, and all members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the dedicated networking, standardization, and cooperation activities of the EMVA. www.emva.org

EMVA General Assembly Elects New Board of Directors

Dr. Chris Yates continues another term as EMVA President
Dr. Kai-Udo Modrich becomes Vice President, Arndt Bake remains EMVA Treasurer
EMVA Business Conference 2025 will take place in Rome

Barcelona/Spain; Gdansk/Poland, June 17th, 2024. The General Assembly of the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA), which took place on June 13th in Gdansk/Poland prior to the 22th EMVA Business Conference, has elected the new EMVA Board of Directors consisting of nine members. For the upcoming three-year term the following Board members were re-elected:

  • Arndt Bake, Basler
  • Dirk Berndt, Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF
  • Marco Diani, iMAGE S
  • Kai-Udo Modrich, ZEISS Inline Inspection & Metrology
  • Ronald Mueller, Vision Markets
  • Chris Yates, Vision Ventures

In addition, the EMVA welcomes three newly elected members in its Board of Directors, namely:

  • Petra Thanner, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)
  • Benjamin Cocquelin, TIAMA Group
  • Maurice van der Aa, Advantech Europe B.V.

During the constituent meeting the new elected Board of Directors voted for Dr. Chris Yates as EMVA President. Dr. Kai-Udo Modrich will serve his first term as Vice President and Arndt Bake will again be EMVA Treasurer.

The 23nd EMVA Business Conference takes place from May 22th – 24th, 2025 in Rome/Italy.

 

Caption: The new EMVA Board of Directors elected on June 13th. From left to right Dr. Ronald Mueller; EMVA Treasurer Arndt Bake; Dr. Marco Diani; EMVA President Dr. Chris Yates; Maurice van der Aa; Benjamin Cocquelin; Petra Thanner; Dr. Dirk Berndt; EMVA Vic President Dr. Kai-Udo Modrich.


About EMVA Founded in 2003, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is a not-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe that 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. The EMVA hosts four international vision standards, and all members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the dedicated networking, standardization, and cooperation activities of the EMVA. www.emva.org

Unique networking options and speaker highlights at EMVA Business Conference 2024 in Gdansk

Keynotes address geopolitical and socio-economic topics | Pre-booking of B2B-meetings amongst attendees | Last minute seats available

Barcelona, June 6th, 2024. In just about one week the 22nd EMVA Business Conference begins. From 13 – 15 June CEOs and other decision makers from machine vision enterprises and institutes will meet in Gdansk, Poland. Until now around 100 participants from 14 nations have registered.

Amongst the highlights of this unique conference format are the two keynotes which traditionally address superordinate topics that also affect the vision-tech industry. The opening keynote this year is titled ‘Shifting Quicksands: The Impact of the U.S. Election on Geopolitical Stability’ and will be given by Ms. Sudha David-Wilp, Regional Director & Senior Fellow at German Marshall Fund. The closing keynote will be held by Prof. Dominik Bösl, Expert in Robotic Governance and Artificial Intelligence and is titled ’Managing Disruptive Trends: What GPT, Robotics, AI, and Home Office Have in Common – and What They Don’t?’.

Besides of attractive and informative talks the EMVA Business Conference is recognized as a quite special event in the machine vision calendar because of the extraordinary networking opportunities offered. The networking character is actively fostered by the option to pre-book face-to-face meetings amongst attendees, usually representing top-level management positions in their enterprise. On top, the evening socializing events offer plenty of opportunities to connect with other participants in a pleasant atmosphere.

A few remaining conference tickets are available for spontaneous registrants who don’t want to miss this exclusive gathering of decision makers in the machine vision industry. www.business-conference-emva.org.


About EMVA Founded in 2003, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is a not-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe that 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. The EMVA hosts four international vision standards, and all members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the dedicated networking, standardization, and cooperation activities of the EMVA. www.emva.org

LogiMAT 2024: Final Program EMVA-Expert Forum „Machine Vision – Key for Logistics 4.0“

Barcelona,​ March 7th, 2024. The expert forum “Machine Vision – Key for Logistics 4.0” at LogiMAT 2024, organized and moderated by the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA), takes place on Tuesday, 19 March at 3 p.m. in the LogiMAT Arena at the East Entrance of Messe Stuttgart.

In his introductory lecture, EMVA Board Member Dr. Ronald Müller will present current trends in machine vision and provide an overview of numerous machine vision solutions. The focus will be on their added value in a wide range of logistics applications, from parcel logistics and warehouses to intra-logistics in production facilities.

This will be followed by compact short presentations by vision-tech companies with a specific focus on logistics in the following order:

Company Presentation Title
Allied Vision Technologies GmbH One Camera Platform – 6 Interfaces
ZEBRA Technologies Europe AI -Powered Automated Damage Detection
LUCID Vision Labs, Inc. Optimizing warehouse automation and material handling with the latest 3D Time-of-Flight cameras
Murrelektronik GmbH Machine Vision Installation, Connected by Murr
Phil-Vision GmbH pvBoxchecker – Flexible inspection stations for parcels or products on conveyor belts (in German)
Basler AG Warehouse Automation
Roboception GmbH 3D Vision for Smart Intralogistics
ifm electronic GmbH What are the slowing factors in scaling driverless vehicles?

Admission to this lecture forum is included in admission to the trade fair.


About EMVA Founded in 2003, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is a not-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe that 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. The EMVA hosts four international vision standards, and all members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the dedicated networking, standardization, and cooperation activities of the EMVA. www.emva.org

LogiMAT 2024: Exhibition Highlights at joint EMVA Member Booth

Vision-Tech for Applications in Logistics

Barcelona,​ March 1st, 2024. At this year’s LogiMAT from March 19 – 21 at Messe Stuttgart, vision applications will be more visible than ever before. For the first time, the European Machine Vision Association will be exhibiting there with a member booth (hall 2, no. 2C18) – seven EMVA members, one Fraunhofer institute and six vision-tech companies, will be showcasing Vision-Tech solutions with high user benefits for the logistics sector.

These include the flexible inspection stations for parcels or products on conveyor belts from co-exhibitor phil-vision, as well as the time synchronization technology for mobile robots and vehicles presented by Vecow. Advantech will be showing its range of AI-supported Jetson platforms; computer systems and industrial cameras. The Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF will be showing three developments: a LiDAR- and AI-based workspace analysis as well as live demos of a sensor-based process monitoring system and the in-house developed RFID wristband. EMVA-member Vision Components will be focusing on embedded vision for OEM intralogistics projects.

Roboception will be premiering at the trade fair: The provider of intelligent robot vision platforms and systems is about to present its latest 3D stereo sensor live for the first time at LogiMAT 2024. Last but not least, Murrelektronik, which specializes in discreet automation technology, will be showing a cabinet-free installation for industrial image processing with the industrial M12 standard that demonstrates barcode recognition live and in action.


About EMVA Founded in 2003, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is a not-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe that 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. The EMVA hosts four international vision standards, and all members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the dedicated networking, standardization, and cooperation activities of the EMVA. www.emva.org

EMVA Young Professional Award 2024 – Call for Application

Prestigious industry award with prize money, presentation at EMVA Business Conference in Gdansk and free pass for European Machine Vision Forum 2024 in France

Barcelona,​ January 17th, 2024. It is the goal of the European Machine Vision Association 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 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.

With the award, the EMVA would like to specifically encourage students and young scientists to focus on challenges in the field of machine vision and to apply latest research results and findings in computer vision to the practical needs of our industry. Applicants for the EMVA Young Professional Award 2024 are hereby invited to submit their work. Among all papers the EMVA Board of Directors, representing the European Machine Vision Industry, will select the winner of the award. The criteria of the works to be presented are:

  • Outstanding or innovative work in the field of vision technology. Industrial relevance and collaboration with a company during the work is required. The targeted industry is free of choice.
  • The work (master thesis or PHD thesis or equivalent level research) must have been undertaken within the last 18 months at, or in collaboration with, a European institution. Meanwhile the student may have entered the professional field.

Applicants may submit the following materials to the EMVA (ypa@emva.org) latest until April 26th, 2024:

  • A two-page abstract summarizing the innovation and the intended commercial benefit.
  • A one-page CV.
  • A copy of the master thesis or PhD thesis. If not yet finished or under publication restrictions, please provide at least one accepted publication.

The winner of the award will be announced at EMVA’s flagship, the 22. EMVA Business Conference taking place June 13th – 15th, 2024 in Gdansk, Poland, 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.
In addition to the honor of the EMVA Young Professional Award endowed with 1500 Euros and the publicity for the research work is a free conference pass for the EMVA Business Conference as well as the coverage of all travel cost to Gdansk and a free pass for the 2024 European Machine Vision Forum in Mulhouse, France.

More information at http://www.emva.org/ypa24.


About EMVA Founded in 2003, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is a not-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe that 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. The EMVA hosts four international vision standards, and all members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the dedicated networking, standardization, and cooperation activities of the EMVA. www.emva.org