March 2023 – EMVA

Are you part of the Machine Vision industry?
We like to hear from you!

The European Machine Vision Association is conducting a survey on the offered activities and initiatives directed to the machine vision industry as well as on the benefits comming along with the membership in the association.

The overall goal is to better understand the needs of its member and non-member entities. The received input will help the association to tailor its activities and better support the industry in general.

Share your ideas and rate the relevance of EMVA’s current offerings. Participate now and help shaping the future of Machine Vision! Go to survey ›

The EMVA is happy to announce that the conference opening keynote will be held by

Prof. Dr. NIKLAS POTRAFKE

Head of the Ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy and Professor of Finance at LMU Munich

After completing his undergraduate degree in economics at the Fernuniversität Hagen, Niklas Potrafke (*1980) obtained a diploma in economics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In 2008 he received his doctorate there from Charles B. Blankart. He completed the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science and is a visiting scholar at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) in Berlin. Study and research stays take him to the University of California, Berkeley, ETH Zurich and KOF Konjunkturforschungsstelle as well as to the University of Groningen. From 2008 to 2012, Potrafke was an assistant at the Chair of Political Economy of Heinrich W. Ursprung at the University of Konstanz.

Niklas Potrafke researches current economic policy issues and transfers research findings into public discourse. He advises policymakers on fiscal policy issues in projects for the Federal Ministry of Finance and state ministries. As an expert, he is regularly invited to hearings in the German Bundestag and state parliaments.

He writes guest articles in German print media such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Handelsblatt or DIE WELT.

First time introduced in 2016 the ‘Parma Vision Night’ is very well received by visitors and exhibitors of the SPS show in Parma. Representatives of local Italian vision players and globally acting corporations meet and enjoy the networking in a restaurant located in the city center of Parma.

The successful events in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 were high motivation for the EMVA and Messe Frankfurt Italy to again jointly offer this networking event especially for the Italian vision community in 2023.

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

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. Go to event ›

Share your expertise on the focal topic:
Real-world machine vision challenges – coping with variability and uncontrolled environments

Machine vision solutions provide great value to end-users, but also must function well in real-world environments like agriculture, environmental monitoring, industrial and medical applications.
You are invited to share your expertise and valuable contribution to this focal topic in person. To actively contribute to the forum, please submit an extended abstract (1-2 pages) for

Contributed talks (15 minute presentation + 5 minute discussion)
Posters with “1 min, 2 slides”-teaser before corresponding poster session

no later than May 2nd , 2023. Contributions from companies as well as research institutions are welcomed at the forum. Check the details ›

Roboception is a pioneer in the field of 3D sensor technology with innovative hardware and software products. The Munich-based company enables robots to see and thus provides key elements for the forward-looking and flexible automation solutions of Industry 4.0.
Roboception’s stereo sensors and software solutions rely on applied AI, a result-oriented combination of traditional algorithms and machine learning. They give any stationary or mobile robotic system the ability to sense and analyze its environment, as well as plan and execute actions – such as precisely grasping and placing objects in manufacturing, logistics, or laboratory environments.
Roboception was founded in 2015 as a spin-off of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and was awarded the Bavarian Innovation Prize 2018, among other prizes. Read more ›

Built on many years of experience in machine and computer vision we develop flexible, expandable machine vision solutions tailored to your individual requirements that can easily be integrated in existing architectures. For a wide variety of industries and tasks – professional, reliable, straightforward and solution-oriented. Agile development and partnership are more than buzzwords for us. We involve you deeply in the whole development process and attach great importance to continuous maintenance, know-how transfer and personal support.
Read more ›

New CEO to drive expansion of Allied Vision’s and TKH´s leadership position in the Vision Industry

Allied Vision Technologies GmbH (“Allied Vision”), part of TKH Group NV, has appointed Robert Franz as its CEO. Together with this new role, Robert Franz will also assume the CEO role for the German 2D Vision companies within the TKH Group, which include industry leading players such as Chromasens, NET, SVS-Vistek, Mikrotron and Nerian. These companies all operate under the TKH Vision umbrella. With the appointment of Robert Franz, both the Management Board of Allied Vision and the German 2D Vision group management are strengthened with a strong leader with extensive experience in strategy, sales, marketing, and product management.

Since 1990, Kautenburger GmbH (Germany) has been setting standards in the development of innovative products and systems in the field of sophisticated industrial automation. Among their customers is Refractarios Kelsen S.A. (Spain), a producer of refractory components and solutions that include fire clay bricks, fireproof bricks used for lining furnaces.

In the production process, these bricks are stacked onto wagons, which transport them into an oven for hardening. Such bricks can come in well over 100 different shapes and sizes. In addition, in order to optimize the hardening process, they must be stacked in very specific patterns. Read more ›

Teledyne is pleased to announce its Sapera™ Vision Software Edition 2023-03 is now available.

Teledyne DALSA’s Sapera Vision Software provides field-proven image acquisition, control, image processing and artificial intelligence functions to design, develop and deploy high-performance machine vision applications. The new upgrades include enhancements to its AI training graphical tool Astrocyte™ 1.40 and its image processing and AI libraries tool Sapera Processing 9.40.

Teledyne e2v announces the release of Optimom 1.5M, the latest member of the Optimom™ family, a new range of turnkey optical modules that can be instantly integrated into vision systems.

Optimom 1.5M is a complete board-level vision extension made to accelerate development time, reduce R&D investment, and scale down manufacturing costs for embedded vision and AI vision solutions. It comprises of a proprietary image sensor, a tiny 25mm square board with lens mount, and optional lens in various options.
Featuring a native MIPI CSI-2 protocol, the Optimom 1.5M module is provided with a complete development kit, which includes adapter board, cabling, and Linux drivers for instant integration with MIPI-based processing units such as NVIDIA Jetson or NXP i.MX solutions.

FRAMOS announced the launch of a new development kit for vision system engineers who are working to develop Time-of-Flight devices for industrial and robotics applications.

The FSM-IMX570 Devkit provides vision system engineers with a simple, coherent framework for quickly developing a working prototype of an embedded indirect Time-of-Flight (iToF) embedded vision system based on Sony’s leading iToF technology. The development kit is built around Sony’s IMX570 iToF image sensor, and includes the necessary hardware modules, software drivers, and documentation to allow engineers to integrate the system with widely-used platforms like NVIDIA’s® Jetson™ embedded computers and create a working camera prototype within a few hours.

LUCID Vision Labs announced the launch of its new Triton2 camera family featuring a 2.5GigE interface and the latest Sony Pregius S sensors.

The new Triton2 camera leverages LUCID’s trusted Factory Tough™ industrial platform to offer unprecedented performance in a cost-effective, compact, and uncompromised camera design. The adoption of the 2.5GigE (300 MB/s) interface enables higher bandwidth than 1GigE cameras without compromising on size, thermal management, or Power over Ethernet (PoE) support. Read more ›

Highly accurate and with an unmatched measurement speed, the next generation Ranger3 streaming cameras can be configured for a wider range of needs. Powered by our unique 3D sensor tailored for demanding vision applications, Ranger3 will serve as a key component in inspection systems worldwide. The camera extracts the true 3D shape of an object, regardless of its contrast or color and as a result, improves quality for a multitude of products. Cost-effective integration is guaranteed through GigE Vision and GenICam compliance. Ranger3 offers big 3D performance in a small housing. Read more ›

XIMEA has released camera prototypes using third generation Sony Pregius™ sensors.

The new models from the xiX camera line are equipped with Sony’s Presgius sensors that can easily replace former Sony CCD sensors like ICX285, ICX694 and others. The initial prototypes include camera models with IMX426, IMX425, IMX421, IMX420 and other potential additions from Sony’s 3rd Generation Pregius family.
Outstanding properties of the Sony CMOS sensors are present in the resolution range starting from SVGA to 7 Mpix.
The high Dynamic range of above 70 dB enables true Bit depth readout up to 12 bit. Read more ›