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NEWSLETTER
MARCH 2018

Dear Reader,

Welcome to the EMVA newsletter! Each month it provides hands-on information on machine vision in Europe and the world. Find out about the latest projects of the EMVA, innovative products, what’s going on in the machine vision industry and interesting events.

Kind regards,
Thomas Lübkemeier
EMVA General Secretary

EMVA News

EMVA Business Conference 2018
Registration runs on high level – Join in now!

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.

Conference speakers are confirmed and the final programme will be published soon.
Here two first examples of our top-level presenters:

Prof. Jitendra Malik
Deep Learning for Deep Visual Understanding

Jitendra Malik is Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at UC Berkeley, and a Director of Research at Facebook AI Research in Menlo Park. He has published widely in computer vision, computational modeling of human vision, and machine learning. Several well-known concepts and algorithms arose in this research, such as anisotropic diffusion, normalized cuts, high dynamic range imaging, shape contexts and R-CNN.

Jitendra received the Distinguished Researcher in Computer Vision Award from IEEE, the K.S. Fu Prize from IAPR, and the Allen Newell award from ACM and AAAI.

Mr. Jeremy White
Keynote Speaker

Jeremy is executive editor of Wired, the influential technology and trends magazine that covers innovation and the businesses that are building the future. He is in charge of analysing and identifying emerging trends and technological shifts that will impact consumers and businesses alike. From the Internet of Things to AI, smart homes to smart cities, flying cars to passenger drones, Jeremy has first-hand experience of emerging trends as well as personal contact with the global business leaders driving them.

As Wired’s executive editor, Jeremy is tasked with seeking out and evaluating products at the very cutting edge of innovation and design. Jeremy also edits all the special supplements for Wired, including the luxury annual, Wired Desired.

The annual EMVA Businesss Conference will take place from 7 – 9 June in Dubrovnik.
Starting on Thursday it will end with an optional networking tour on Saturday afternoon.

Don’t miss to join your already 80 registered peers and get your seat at www.business-conference-emva.org

EMVA appoints Standards Manager

Arnaud Darmont coordinates standardization activities of the association.

The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) has appointed Arnaud Darmont as new EMVA Standards Manager. Arnaud will be responsible to promote the European machine vision standardization activities worldwide and to coordinate the development process of machine vision standards.
In addition, in a rapidly changing industrial environment another major task will be to identify new standardization needs.
Read more ›

Spring 2018 International Vision Standards Meeting
Standards for Image Processing within Reach

In the image processing industry, the standardization board meets every six months at the International Vision Standards Meeting (IVSM) to specify and adopt the most important developments and standards, but also to communicate with the automation industry. The next meeting will take place from May 14th to 18th 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany, and is being organized by the VDMA in collaboration with the image processing specialists from Silicon Software GmbH. Read more ›

Find all meeting details and registration at www.ivsm2018.silicon.software

Member News

EMVA welcomes new member
DIMAGY

Dimagy is a french company dedicated to vision systems engineering. Its expertise relies on the objective analysis of imaging components: we bench, measure, compare cameras, lenses & lightings to get a reliable system for each application.
Dimagy provides image quality evaluation material (software, charts, lightings etc.) and consulting services, real-time image processing libraries, and custom development of vision applications based the world leading APIs. Read more ›

EMVA welcomes new member
HTW Chur – University of Applied Sciences

With its Bachelor of Science and Master of Science programmes, the HTW Chur offers a broad range of attractive study programmes.

Apart from industry driven research projects in Photonics and Photonics-related precision measurement and calibration services, HTW Chur offers both a BSc in Photonics as well as a Masters of Advanced Studies (MAS) in Photonics, which are unique.in Switzerland.
Read more ›

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Case Study

TATTILE
Finding the suitable industrial PC for web inspection through conducting a product test

The inspection systems division of Electronic Systems based in Momo in the province of Novara/Italy has specialized in customized applications for inline control of continuous products. The switch in interfaces from CameraLink to GigE Vision led to the search for a new industrial PC for their web inspection system. A test run with a choice of industrial PCs left the Tattile Multi-Camera Vision Controller M100 GigE as the best suitable option. Read more ›

Recent case studies

BAUMER
CX and EX series add ten new models with rolling shutter sensors

Baumer expands the successful CX and EX camera series with ten new models featuring rolling shutter CMOS sensors by ON Semiconductor and Sony, including sensors from the STARVIS series. With resolutions of 5, 10, 12 and 20 megapixel, these sensors deliver low noise, low heat generation and an excellent price-performance ratio. Hence, these new models are the ideal choice for cost-sensitive applications that require low-price cameras with high resolution and image quality comparable to a global shutter sensor, reducing system cost. Read more ›

FRAMOS
SONY brings IMX250 Pregius CMOS Sensor with On-Pixel Polarizer for improved object detection

Sony Semiconductor Solutions releases its new Pregius IMX250 sensor with a four-directional polarization square pixel array, providing higher contrast for more detailed pictures in less time.

The 5.07 Megapixel sensor, with a 2/3-inch optical format, has a 2448 x 2048 pixel array utilizing a 3.45µm pixel size. The IMX250 reaches a frame rate of 144fps at 10 bits. With global shutter and variable charge-integration time, this sensor is a great fit for factory automation as well as for ITS applications and imaging in infrastructure.
The sensor, along with additional support services, is available from global imaging expert FRAMOS. Read more ›

TAMRON
New Camera Module with CMOS Global Shutter and 30x Zoom

Camera modules, aka block cameras, are devices with an integrated image sensor, lens optics, video output and control electronics. Thanks to their easy integration in imaging systems, camera modules are widely used, globally, e.g. in video surveillance and industrial applications. With the MP2030M-GS, Tamron is advancing this product species to an unseen level, featuring an industrial grade CMOS Global Shutter image sensor, Full-HD resolution at 60 fps, 30x optical zoom, and compatibility to the interface of many other camera modules in the market. Read more ›

XENICS
Improved SWIR detector quality by lowering dark current

Xenics announced a significant improvement in the quality of its detectors and resulting cameras.

With the goal of better serving its customers, Xenics has recently increased production capabilities, added extra clean room space, reviewed processing techniques and modernized equipment. First evidence of this improved and upgraded manufacturing process is the significant reduction of dark current in our standard InGaAs SWIR detectors.
Read more ›

ZEISS
New ZEISS Interlock Compact 2.4/25 Industrial Lens

With the new wide-angle lens, the ZEISS Interlock Compact 2.4/25, the company is expanding its portfolio of compact industrial lenses by adding another focal length. The lens features a M42x1 mount (18 mm flange focal distance) and is perfect for cameras with full-frame sensors and for line scan cameras with a sensor measuring up to 43 millimeters.

“Thanks to top-quality mechanisms and a rugged metal housing, the ZEISS Interlock Compact 2.4/25 won’t let you down, even in poor weather,” says Tobias Breuninger from ZEISS. “Its exceptional optical specs make the lens suitable for high-resolution image sensors currently on the market.” Read more ›

Job offers

EMVA – European Machine Vision Association

Marketing Manager (m/f) ›

Framos

Software Developer (w/m) ›

Silicon Software

Software Developer C++ – 3rd Party Interface Connection (m/f) ›

Xenics

Camera Sales Manager (Europe) (m/f) ›

Events