The European Machine Vision Forum is an annual event following the slogan ‘Research Meets Industry‘. 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 problems 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.