Taking place at Heidelberg University on April 8, 2016, Jochem Herrmann, President of the EMVA, will represent small and medium-sized companies and speak on “Impact of state of the art CMOS Image Sensors and Embedded Vision Technologies on the Machine Vision market of the future” .

After achieving a roughly 25% increase in turnover last year and reinforcing its position in the international market, SVS-VISTEK GmbH now has its sights set on expansion in the new year. Effective 1 January 2016, the Seefeld-based producer of industrial cameras signed Swedish company Metric Industrial AB as its new sales partner for Scandinavia, thus additionally expanding its sales network in Northern Europe.

Arnaud Darmont and Adrien Lombet, APHESA SPRL (Belgium), will talk about EMVA 1288 at the conference “Image Sensors and Imaging Systems 2016” taking place 14-18 February 2016 in San Francisco.

STEMMER IMAGING and the Graz-based company Perception Park have signed a cooperation agreement for the distribution of innovative imaging systems based on Chemical Colour Imaging (CCI) technology. CCI combines essential advantages of the basic technologies of chemical imaging (hyperspectral imaging) and colour imaging (Colour image processing) and makes chemical material properties accessible to a completely new range of users through new approaches to data processing.

The GenICam standard group has released GenApi 3.0, a new version of the reference implementation to the GenICam standard. This new major release is a complete re-implementation and bears key advantages to the previous version. GenApi 3.0 enables to load and interpret the camera description file several times faster and has a much smaller memory footprint than the previous version. In addition, more platforms are now supported, in particular regarding the ARM architecture.
All these improvements make the standard in particular interesting for the embedded use case while at the same time the new release is still based on the GenApi standard 2.0 and therefore downward compatible.
The new GenApi reference implementation is the result of three years work of the GenICam standard group in which all major camera and software manufacturers jointly cooperate. It will thus be quickly used by nearly all camera and machine vision software manufacturers.
GenApi 3.0 can be downloaded on the website of the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) which hosts the GenICam standard through the following weblink:
https://www.emva.org/standards-technology/genicam/genicam-downloads/

Vision Systems Design Announces Call for Entries for 2016 Innovators Awards Program.

In 2016, the Vision Systems Design Innovators Awards program will once again distinguish and reward the most innovative products and services in the vision and image processing industry.

Launched in 2015, the award program recognizes companies that demonstrate excellence in a product or technology, an application, or in research and development. In addition to systems integrators, manufacturers of industrial cameras, camera components, image sensors, machine vision lighting, and more, are encouraged to submit their product, service, or technology for review.

The conference covers the different business segments Management, Technology, Innovation, Markets and Marketing and it offers outstanding networking opportunities. We go the step further by providing the necessary organisation and infrastructure for pre-scheduled bilateral meetings matching the individual attendee’s needs!

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