The 17th EMVA Business Conference 2019 from 16th to 18th May, which this time took place in Copenhagen, was again attended by more than 100 representatives of the entire international vision industry.
The conference program once again impressed with top-class speakers and contributions on highly relevant topics of technology and industry. The guests from all over the world enjoyed an extensive offer for interactive networking and interesting programs. Read more here …
The Parma Vision Night, the yearly appointment dedicated to the industry of vision systems, returns for the fourth time.
The appointment is on Monday 27 May at 8.00 PM at the Academia Barilla. We choose the Biblioteca Gastronomica as beautiful setting for this moment of networking and tasting Parma gastronomic traditions. The Parma Vision Night is a social networking opportunity to meet friends, colleagues and partners, all spiced up with the taste of Parma culinary tradition.
The evening is organized by SPS Italia and European Machine Vision Association – EMVA.
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.
EMVA Annual Business Conference 2019 – Speaker Announcement Part V
We proudly announce that Dr. Bernd Liepert, President of euRobotics and former Chief Innovation Officer at KUKA, will open the 17th edition of EMVA’s annual Business Conference.
The opening keynote titled ‘Robotics needs Vision – Vision needs Robotics’ will give insights to the world of robotics and especially to the ongoing projects to uptake robotics in Europe supported by the European Commission.
Dr. Bernd Liepert is the President of euRobotics aisbl, the international non-profit association for all stakeholders in European robotics which was founded in September 2012 and has become the private side of SPARC, the European Public-Private Partnership in Robotics in 2013. As president of these associations Dr. Liepert has been leading the European robotics community and representing it at high political levels since 2008, where he became President of EUROP, the European Robotics Technology Platform.
Dr. Liepert earned his diploma in mathematics in 1990 at the University of Augsburg and his honorary doctor degree at University of Magdeburg in 2008. Since 1990, he has worked in various positions for KUKA. From 1990 to 1996 he worked as mathematician and developer at KUKA Schweissanlagen + Roboter GmbH before he took charge as head of research and development of the newly founded company KUKA Roboter GmbH until 1997. From 1998 to 1999 he was a member of KUKA Roboter GmbH Board of Management, responsible for development and design.
From 2000 to 2009 Dr. Liepert was CEO of KUKA Roboter GmbH. From 2010 to January 2015 he was CTO of KUKA AG, responsible for technology and development of the whole KUKA Group. Afterwards he was nominated the Chief Innovation Officer at KUKA AG, a worldwide leading manufacturer of industrial robots and provider of robot-based automation solutions. In this position he could contribute his vast robotics experience at the interface between technological innovation and the market.
Abstract of Bernd’s presentation:
Robots operate in the world around us and vision is their primary sense. Robotics has the potential to impact on every major sector with an estimated worldwide revenue of up to €65Bn by 2020. euRobotics is dedicated to promoting the uptake of robotics in Europe. It is the private side of the SPARC Public Private Partnership in robotics with the European Commission which invests €700M in robotics R&D&I during Horizon 2020 leveraging some €2.1Bn of private side investment. European robotics research and innovation is strong, particularly in service-based applications. For robotics, vision means more than sensing it is the integration with interpretation, analysis and learning, edge-based AI, built into dynamic mechatronic systems that can deliver a step change in object grasping and manipulation, in inspection and for human robot interaction. There is a long and strong relationship between robotics and vision and a shared future we should explore.
The EMVA Business Conference will take place 16-18 May 2019 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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EMVA is pleased to welcome its guests at the Business Conference 2019 in Copenhagen from 16 to 18 May. The program of the conference is packed with many interesting presentations from top class speakers, which we will introduce successively.
The EMVA is looking forward to the presentations by Dr. Ren Wu, founder and CEO at NovuMind and Tue Moerck, Managing Director at IHFood A/S
Dr. Ren Wu, Founder and CEO at NovuMind
‘Processors for Intelligent Vision Devices’
Dr. Ren Wu is the Founder and CEO of NovuMind Inc, where he is leading the effort to push the frontier of artificial intelligence (AI) via high-performance and heterogeneous computing. His dream is to improve people’s life using NovuMind’s AI technologies.
He was the distinguished scientist at Baidu Research where he and his team have designed and built a supercomputer dedicate for deep learning and have achieved world’s best results on many image recognition tasks.
Prior to joining Baidu, Ren served as chief software architect of Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) at AMD. Earlier, he was the principal investigator of CUDA Research Center at HP Labs, where he is widely known for his pioneering work in using GPUs to accelerate big data analytics and large-scale machine learning algorithms.
Ren is also known for his early work on artificial intelligence. His Xiangqi (Chinese chess) program was twice world champion and have dominated computer Xiangqi field for more than a decade. He was the first person to perform systematic research computationally on Xiangqi endgames with astonishing discoveries.
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Tue Moerck, Managing Director at IHFood A/S
‘Vision in the Food Industry’
With more than 20+ years of professional experience with optical measurement systems at different positions, research, development, production, product marketing, sales and general management, Mr. Moerck has the theoretical and the practical understanding of business processes.
After his diploma he worked with research and development at a high technical level where after getting into various technical management positions. Tue has been involved with and signing responsible for developing several well selling products in the field of optical measurement systems and cameras. He introduced new technology and was part of starting up new business segments.
The commercial experience was added to the equation at the camera manufacturer JAI where Tue held managerial positions in sales & marketing and where he has been member of the management team for years.
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EMVA is pleased to welcome its guests at the Business Conference 2019 in Copenhagen from 16 to 18 May. The program of the conference is packed with many interesting presentations from top class speakers, which we will introduce successively.
The EMVA is looking forward to the presentations by Dr. Klaus-Henning Noffz, Chairman of VDMA Machine Vision and Michael Sehested Lund, Sales Director EMEA at JAI:
Dr. Klaus-Henning Noffz, Chairman of VDMA Machine Vision
‘OPC Vision – the door to Industrie 4.0’
Dr. Klaus-Henning Noffz is founder and CEO of Silicon Software GmbH, producer of image acquisition and image processing boards for Machine Vision. Before founding the company in 1997, he studied physics at the University of Heidelberg and did a PhD about pattern recognition for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the CERN in Geneve/Switzerland. In 2006, he received the International Vision Award.
Since 2012, Klaus-Henning Noffz is member of the Board of VDMA Machine Vision where he has been responsible for MV standards. A main activity was the establishment of OPC Vision. In 2018 he became chairman of the VDMA board.
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Michael Sehested Lund, Sales Director EMEA at JAI
‘Hyperspectral and Multispectral Imaging: Where are the Applications?’
Michael Sehested Lund is Sales Director EMEA at JAI A/S and has worked at JAI A/S since 2006 in different sales roles.
Prior to JAI Michael has worked in the laser photonics industry with sales management and business development.
Michael holds an MSc EE from the Technical University of Denmark.
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EMVA is pleased to welcome its guests at the Business Conference 2019 in Copenhagen from 16 to 18 May. The program of the conference is packed with many interesting presentations from top class speakers, which we will introduce successively.
The EMVA is pleased about the presentations of Jin Pan and Karri Niemelä:
Jin Pan, Chairman of the CMVU
‘China Machine Vision Market in 2018’
Mr. Jin Pan has been chairman of China Machine Vision Industry Union (CMVU) since 2013.
He worked for Beijing Daheng Image Vision Co., Ltd as general manager before retiring in 2017. In the machine vision industry, he has worked for more than 20 years and accumulated rich experience.
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Karri Niemelä, CTO at FocalSpec
‘Measuring the Invisible’
Karri Niemelä, PhD, works as Chief Technical Officer at FocalSpec Oy, a global pioneer in designing and manufacturing high-precision optical line confocal sensors headquartered in Oulu, Finland. Before co-founding FocalSpec, Karri worked at VTT Optical Instrumentation center as a senior research scientist in a Machine Vision team.
Karri holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Oulu, Finland. In his thesis, he explored the optical and electronic properties of semiconductor nanostructures like quantum dots, rings and wires.
In his role as CTO at FocalSpec Karri leads the R&D of the FocalSpec sensor products with a highly skilled team of hardware and software professionals. His main passion at work lies in optical engineering, 3D metrology and algorithms. Outside work he enjoys playing jazz, blues and rock music with his electric bass guitar.
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EMVA is pleased to welcome its guests at the Business Conference 2019 in Copenhagen from 16 to 18 May. The program of the conference is packed with many interesting presentations from top class speakers, which we will introduce successively.
The EMVA is pleased about the presentations of these two top speakers:
Dr. Christian Hörr, Head of Software Development at Carl Zeiss Optotechnik
‘Exploiting the Power of Angular Illumination Methods’
Christian Hörr is Head of Software Development at Carl Zeiss Optotechnik GmbH, where his work focuses on overarching topics within optical metrology, computational geometry, image processing, and robotics.
He received a PhD in computer science from Chemnitz University of Technology in 2011, where is research topics have been non-photorealistic rendering, shape analysis, and data mining applied to the domain of archaeology.
Abstract:
Illuminating an object from different but well-defined directions gives additional clues on its shape and material, which would be hard if not impossible to derive from a single image. In contrast to multi-camera setups, additional light sources are available at very low costs and they usually do not require overly precise calibration. In this talk, we show examples from different applications such as microscopy, surface inspection, and optical metrology, where angular illumination methods achieve astonishing improvements over conventional setups and often exceed their physical limitations at the cost of acquiring and processing a much higher number of images.
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Hendrik Ilsby, CCO at SVS-Vistek
‘Machine Vision in Denmark’
Henrik Ilsby, born 1958 in Copenhagen, graduated 1983 from Copenhagen Technical University with a B.Sc degree in Manufacturing Engineering and Electronics.
He spent 10 years from 1983 in program management and sales with the Danish company Nea-Lindberg, (Video Displays and IR camera technology). Henrik joined JAI A/S in 1994 as Director of Sales for the Camera business unit. In 1997 he was appointed to executive management in JAI and later Senior Vice President leading the international camera business unit. From 2010-2012 he acted as CEO for CST A/S Copenhagen Sensor Technology, a company specializing in electro-optical solutions for Defense and Homeland Security markets.
In January 2013, Henrik joined the executive board of SVS VISTEK as Chief Commercial Officer, leading the worldwide sales.
Abstract:
“The Kingdom of Denmark and the machine vision market there”.
Intend to make a brief introduction to Denmark, history, uniqueness, business environment/structure and anecdotes. Deeper insight to the various companies and sectors which are involved in machine vision and imaging related activities
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The EMVA Board of Directors Meeting on April 4th 2019 took place in the premises of Allied Vision in Ahrensburg. We would like to thank Allied Vision for their kind hospitality and support.
We are pleased to announce that further new members have joined EMVA in the first quarter of 2019. In addition to IMPERX from the USA, we would like to welcome VISION COMPONENTS, KAPPA OPTRONICS and VISION MARKETS from Germany and GPIXEL from Belgium.
EMVA Quarterly Market Data Survey
A key indicator of the economic climate in the European machine vision industry is the EMVA quarterly machine vision sales report as part of the EMVA market research activities. The recently concluded survey of sales in the fourth quarter 2018 indicates that total machine vision sales went up slightly by three percent compared to Q3-2018. Throughout 2018 the 2nd and 4th quarters showed quite weak growth rates while 1st and 3rd quarter over-performed. Overall, the report results in a yearly growth rate of the European machine vision sales of 9.5 percent compared to 2017. In addition, the evaluation of the quarterly sentiment which gathers industry predictions about future machine vision sales growth revealed that the machine vision suppliers keep being carefully positive.
The full report is available to all contributing companies.
