Mega Phase Industrial Inspection Technology, based in Shanghai/China, is a well-known industrial structured light 3D camera manufacturer.

We also give a warm welcome to Inspekto AMV from Tel Aviv/Israel – manufacturer of Autonomous Machine Vision systems – and to Perception Park, located in Graz/Austria, passionate about Hyperspectral Imaging.

As another new member, we are pleased to welcome V-Optics SAS, based in Marly, France. V-Optics designs, manufactures and sells sensors and measurement systems enable to characterize light reflective and transparent surfaces.

Embedded Vision Europe Conference 2019 at ICS Stuttgart was great success

Conference attendees and exhibitors are very convinced of the 2^nd edition of EVE

The 2^nd edition of Embedded Vision Europe conference (EVE) closed on Friday, 25^th October, at the ICS Stuttgart with a fully booked attendance of participants from 23 countries. The event has brought top-notch speakers from companies like Intel, NVIDIA, Micron, Pleora and others to Stuttgart.

Embedded VISION Europe 2019 is the leading conference in Europe focusing exclusively on the areas of this disruptive technology and organized by the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA), supported by Messe Stuttgart, the organizer and host of the biennial VISION international trade fair. Embedded VISION Europe is aimed at developers and users of embedded vision technologies from all industries. The conference was accompanied by an exhibition of technologically leading companies presenting their embedded vision competence with innovative products, applications and services.

Chris Yates, Director Advanced Technology at Rockwell Automation and Member of the EMVA Board, who moderated the event, sums up the EVE’s findings as follows:

“Embedded vision systems in use today are transforming factories, hospitals, transport, and living spaces, by providing machines with greater cognitive ability through vision. As the only conference focused exclusively on this disruptive technology Embedded Vision Europe 2019 gathered speakers from across the full spectrum of the embedded vision industry, covering topics such as new hardware compute platforms, embedded vision standards and APIs, specific approaches to optimizing neural networks, as well as real-world examples of the deployment of vision based embedded AI systems.”

See also: Embedded Vision Europe Conference 2019 – Review

The 4th European Machine Vision Forum took place from September 4 to Friday, September 6, 2019, in Lyon, France.

“Deep learning alone is not enough – overall system optimization is needed.”

This sentence summarizes the conclusion of the Forum, where research and industry met.  The focal topic “Photonics and Machine Vision: Going Deep into Integration” suited well into the hosting technology region of Lyon with Grenoble and St. Etienne close by. Starting point for this main topic was a look into nature. Over millions of years, biological vision systems have developed which not only have a high learning ability but also developed very different eyes specifically adapted to the individual tasks in terms of spatial resolution, wavelength sensitivity, color vision, motion sensitivity and reaction time.

The program featured a further 25 presentations and an accompanying exhibition. The participants honored the high quality of the presentations, the professional organization of the event and the numerous opportunities for exchanging ideas between research and industry.

Outlook on the 5th European Machine Vision Forum 2020

At the end of the event, the 5th European Machine Vision Forum was announced by the local Chair, Prof. Peter O’Brien to take place from 10-11 September 2020 at the Tyndall National Institute in Cork, Ireland. The focal topic then – “Accuracy, Reliability and Limits of Machine Vision” will again be an ideal theme for communication between researchers and industry, since research can explore the theoretical limits and the industry can demonstrate the current state of technology.

Find the complete EMVF 19 review and impressions here …

For almost ten years release 3 of the EMVA 1288 standard has been available for an objective and application-oriented characterization of industrial cameras and is being used worldwide. Today the rapid and error-free development of new cameras is no longer conceivable without accompanying EMVA 1288 measurement.

New EMVA 1288 Certification Program

The way the EMVA 1288 standard is structured makes its application as simple as possible. However, image sensors and industrial cameras are complex systems. Their best possible use is not managable without appropriate knowledge. EMVA therefore offers, in cooperation with member companies, training courses on the practical application of the standard, which can be combined with certification examinations on two levels: “Expert” and “User” level.

The next trainings for the EMVA 1288 Expert Level are:

• 4.- 5. December 2019, AEON, Hanau
• 13.- 14. May 2020, Framos, Munich (+++Attention! Online Training 27th – 28th May, 2020+++)

Get more information here …

Common Press Dossier from EMVA and Lakesight Technologies

EMVA together with corporate sponsor Lakesight Technologies hosted the International Vision Standards Meeting Fall 2019 from 07-11 October in Stresa/Italy.

The common press dossier about the event includes statements of an exclusive standards Chair round table discussion during the IVSM on how standardization has influenced the machine vision industry and what challenges lie ahead. It also describes how the entire event is structured, what happens during the Plugfest, and which organizations have the patronage.

After a successful debut of the Embedded VISION Europe Conference two years ago, the second edition will take place from 24-25 October 2019. The event will be held in cooperation with our partner Messe Stuttgart at the ICS International Congress Center, directly at Stuttgart Airport.

Keynote speaker David Austin, Senior Principal Engineer at Intel Corp., further top speakes like Neil Trevett, Vice President Developer Ecosystems at NVIDIA, Jagan Ayyaswami, Sr. Director of Mobile Architecture and Systems at Micron Technology or Takashi Someda, CTO at Hacarus Inc., stand exemplary for the high quality technical conference program.

Don’t miss the opportunity to become sponsor or exhibitor of Embedded VISION Europe. For registration to attend the conference and all information on the accompanying exhibition, please click here:

www.embedded-vision-emva.org

Take a look at what Embedded Vision Europe 2019 has to offer and ensure your participation now!

The Embedded Vision Europe Conference 2019, 24-25 October, Messe Stuttgart, will again highlight a conference program with top-class speakers on the trend topics Embedded Vision.

We are very proud to announce the already confirmed speakers:

+++ David Austin / Intel Corporation, gives Opening Keynote +++ Neil Trevett / Khronos/NVIDIA +++ Jagan Ayyaswami / Micron Technology +++ Andrea Dunbar / CSEM +++ Michael Engel / Vision Components +++ Jonathan Hou / Pleora +++ Pierre Gutierrez / Scortex +++ Vassilis Tsagaris / Irida Labs +++ Gion-Pitschen Gross / Allied Vision +++ Bram Senave / Easics +++ Takashi Someda / Hacarus +++ further speaker announcements to follow +++

Here we highlight three top contributions of the conference:

Takashi Someda | CTO at Hacarus Inc.

“Using Sparse Modeling in Visual Inspection to Solve Issues Deep Learning Can’t”

Takashi Someda leads Hacarus engineering and product development from its Kyoto headquarters, spearheading the roll-out of Sparse Modeling-based AI tools. Takashi holds a Master’s Degree in Informatics from the prestigious Kyoto University and manages the company’s academic advisory board including Professors from Kyoto, Shiga and Tohoku University. Takashi is a frequent and appreciated guest speaker at conferences on topics such as Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and edge devices.

Abstract of Takashi Someda´s Talk:

This presentation introduces Sparse Modeling, an AI technique that understands data like a human- by its unique key features. The agenda will include a presentation of the technique, a brief background and real-world examples of its use for image data in visual inspections. In conclusion, the presenter will provide a comparison with deep learning-based techniques and discuss advantages and weaknesses of using Sparse Modeling for visual inspection.

More information here …

 Jagan Ayyaswami | Sr. Director of Mobile Architecture and Systems at Micron Technology

“Processor Architectures for Machine Learning”

Jagan Ayyaswami has over 23 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. He is currently the Sr. Director of Mobile Architecture and Systems in Micron Technology Inc. Prior to Micron he worked in Qualcomm Corporation for 12 years in various Engineering Management roles. He holds a MS degree in Computer Engineering from Iowa State University in the US and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Madras, India.

Abstract of Jagan Ayyaswami´s Talk:

With the rapid advances in machine learning and various neural network topologies, we have made tremendous amount of progress in solving many embedded computer vision tasks. Face detection, face recognition, object tracking, object identification, lane change detection, pedestrian detection etc. are but a few examples of the applications where we have seen signification improvement in performance by these techniques compared to the traditional computer vision algorithms. However, these new approaches use a different computational model to achieve these results. In this talk, Jagan will explore the various kinds of hardware implementations that are gaining popularity in these machine learning based embedded vision applications and discuss the relative pros and cons.

More information here …

Pierre Gutierrez | Lead machine learning researcher at Scortex

“The challenges of deploying Deep Learning for visual quality inspection”

Pierre Gutierrez started his career in research in machine learning applied to genetics at the Institut Stat & Génome. He then went to be a data scientist at the French start up Dataiku. There, he had the opportunity to work on a large variety of data science and machine learning problems such as recommendation engine, fraud detection or geospatial analysis. He is now in charge of the machine learning research at Scortex where he is trying to push the boundaries of what can be done with deep learning with less data and computation.

Abstract of Pierre Gutierrez´s Talk:

There is a wide gap between creating a first approximatively working SSD detector and a deep learning based product. In this talk, we describe the challenges that we have been facing at Scortex and how we try to tackle them. The first one is the real time processing, because inspection in factories means meeting the cycle time. The second challenge is about machine learning, since to be of any use the performance of the system almost need to match the one of a human. Last but not least, we’ll talk about the human-machine interface and the system adoption issue.

More information here …

About eVe 2019:

Embedded VISION Europe 2019 is the only conference in Europe having the focus exclusively on this disruptive technology. It shows the capability of hardware and software platforms; presents applications and markets for embedded vision and creates a platform for the exchange of information.

Speakers

The second edition of the Embedded VISION Europe conference again offers top-noche speeches held by internationally well known specialists and drivers in the embedded technology field.

Table-top exhibition and opportunity for individual B2B meetings

The accompanying exhibition as well as the opportunity to arrange personal business meetings already at the registration complete the offer of Embedded Vision Europe as an ideal platform to deepen industry know-how and establishing new business contacts in the field of Embedded Vision.

Join the Table-Tops  —  Already Confirmed Exhibitors:

Active Silicon ++  Allied Vision  ++  Baumer ++ Gidel  ++  IDS ++ IniVation ++ Imaging Source ++ Phytec  ++  Sedeco Imaging ++ Vision Components ++ …

Find more information here: www.embedded-vision-emva.org

During the 17th EMVA Business Conference in Copenhagen, a high-level and controversy panel discussion titled “How will Embedded Vision impact our future?” attracted the attention of the more than 100 attendees.

Find a summary and conclusion of the EMVA conference panel discussion here ….

The EMVA Board of Directors Meeting on July 17^th, 2019 took place in the premises of Silicon Software in Mannheim. We would like to thank Silicon Software, in particular Dr. Klaus-Henning Noffz, CEO and Chairman of the VDMA MV Board, for their kind hospitality and support.