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EMVA Young Professional Award 2026 – Call for Application

Prestigious industry award with prize money, presentation at EMVA Business Conference in Stockholm and free pass for European Machine Vision Forum 2026

Barcelona,​ January 16th, 2026. It is the goal of the European Machine Vision Association to support further innovation in our industry, to contribute to the important aspect of dedicated machine vision education, and to provide a bridge between research and industry. The EMVA Young Professional Award is an annual award endowed with 1,500 Euros to honor the outstanding and innovative work of a student or a young professional in the field of machine vision or image processing.

With the EMVA Young Professional Award, the EMVA specifically encourages students and young scientists to focus on challenges in the field of machine vision and to apply latest research results and findings in computer vision to the practical needs of our industry. Applicants for the EMVA Young Professional Award 2026 are hereby invited to submit their work. Among all papers the EMVA Board of Directors, representing the European Machine Vision Industry, will select the winner of the award.

The criteria of the works to be presented are:

  • Outstanding or innovative work in the field of vision technology. Industrial relevance and collaboration with a company during the work is required. The targeted industry is free of choice.
  • The work (master thesis or PHD thesis or equivalent level research) must have been undertaken within the last 18 months at, or in collaboration with, a European institution. Meanwhile the student may have entered the professional field.

To apply please submit the following materials to the EMVA President, Dr Chris Yates, at ypa@emva.org latest until 5 April, 2026:

  • A two-page abstract summarizing the innovation and the intended commercial benefit
  • A one-page CV
  • A copy of the master thesis or PhD thesis. If not yet finished or under publication restrictions,
  • please provide at least one accepted publication
  • Supportive letters of research supervisors and/or any collaborating company are welcomed but not mandatory.

More information at https://www.emva.org/news/young-professional-award-26-call-for-application/.

The winner of the award will be announced at the EMVA Business Conference 2026 taking place 18 – 20 June in Stockholm, Sweden, and will have the opportunity to present the awarded work to the machine vision industry leaders and special press representatives. In addition to the honor of the EMVA Young Professional Award endowed with 1,500 Euros and the publicity for the research work is a free conference pass for the EMVA Business Conference as well as the coverage of all travel cost to Stockholm and a free pass for the  European Machine Vision Forum taking place in autumn 2026.


About EMVA

Founded in 2003, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is a not-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe that is open for all types of organizations having a stake in machine vision, computer vision, embedded vision or imaging technologies: manufacturers, system and machine builders, integrators, distributors, consultancies, research organizations and academia. The EMVA hosts four international vision standards, and all members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the dedicated networking, standardization, and cooperation activities of the EMVA. www.emva.org

2025 Autumn IVSM Meeting Concludes Successfully in Haikou, China

Barcelona, December 3rd, 2025. The 2025 Autumn International Vision Standards Meeting (IVSM) was successfully held in Haikou, Hainan Province from November 3 to 7. Co-hosted by the China Machine Vision Union (CMVU) and Hainan University, the meeting emerged as a pivotal platform for global exchanges in the machine vision standards field, attracting over 120 R&D engineers from around the world.

The meeting featured nine sessions, including regular G3 standard meetings such as CoaXPress, USB3 VISION, GigE VISION, OPC Machine Vision and GenICam, as well as additional sessions on Cable and Connector Working Group Meeting and China Machine Vision Standards Meeting. The Plugfest (Standard Compliance and Interoperability Testing) session on Wednesday drew 55 categories of products from 28 domestic and foreign machine vision companies to participate in the testing.

During the meeting, the CoaXPress Working Group updated the technical part of CXP3.0 version. Currently, the maximum speed of copper transmission can reach to 25Gbps, and to be compatible with optical fiber transmission, part of the nGMII protocol content in the link layer integration has been added to the CXP3.0 protocol as well. The USB3 VISION Working Group released the official compliance test plan for USB cable extenders and will further refine and update the verification software tools for U3V products. The GigE VISION Working Group plans to officially release the GEV3.0 version by the end of 2025. The new standard introduces the GenDC over RoCEv2 serial transmission protocol, which enables direct transmission of image data from the NIC to the application buffer, significantly reducing CPU usage and being particularly suitable for lossless transmission of high-throughput data above 25G. The GenICam Working Group has released the GenICam package 2025.10, containing GenApi version 3.5, this fall, and the working group plans to release SFNC Ver. 2.8 and GenDC Ver. 1.2 by the end of 2025. A new standard for a generic feature access API (working title: GenFeA) is under development. The OPC Machine Vision Working Group introduced the latest progress of the OPC MV Part 2 and demonstrated the demo system. Meanwhile, company from China shared successful stories of OPC UA and OPC MV in China’s new energy industry. The Cable and Connector Working Group hosted by JIIA introduced the electrical compliance test for HD-BNC (Micro BNC) connector and CXP cables and the evaluation test for moveable MV cables. The concurrent China Machine Vision Standard Meeting also invited international technical experts to participate in discussions, focusing on new test requirements for 2D cameras, characterization for 3D cameras, and performance evaluation standards for industrial AI detection algorithms.

At the gala dinner, the standard managers of A3, JIIA and VDMA delivered speeches to congratulate the successful holding of the meeting. Ms. Isabel YANG, Vice President of Luster and Vice Chairman of CMVU, stated that we have witnessed the complete process of machine vision technology from germination to evolution and the market pattern from fluctuations to growth. As a witness who has worked within this industry for nearly 30 years, we deeply understand that building and unifying technical standards globally is not only an inevitable choice for the industry to mature but also a solid foundation for promoting global collaboration and achieving common technological progress. Pan JIN, Chairman of CMVU, emphasized that CMVU will continue to advance the process of machine vision standardization and encourage Chinese member enterprises to actively participate in G3 standardization activities.

The next IVSM meeting will be organized by the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) and held in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, from April 13 to 17, 2026. Registration is already open and technical experts in the relevant machine vision field are welcome to register actively.


About IVSM and G3

The machine vision standards community meets at the International Vision Standards Meeting (IVSM) held in both spring and fall each year, rotating across America, Europe, and Asia, and hosted by a different member company. During each week-long event, committees representing each of the standards discuss progress, road maps and collaboration.

Under the so-called ‘G3 agreement’ the leading machine vision associations cooperate in the development and dissemination of machine vision standards. Through this cooperation between A3 – Association For Advancing Automation (North America), CMVU – China Machine Vision Union, EMVA – European Machine Vision Association, JIIA – Japan Industrial Imaging Association and VDMA – German Mechanical and Plant Engineering Association, the members of all mentioned associations have access to the various technical working groups of standards hosted by any of the G3 organizations. Continued cooperation is established through the G3 committee which consists equally of representatives from all five industry associations. The G3 cooperation agreement enshrines the principles of openness, transparency, and consensus in standards development.

About EMVA

Founded in 2003, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is a not-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe that is open for all types of organizations having a stake in machine vision, computer vision, embedded vision or imaging technologies: manufacturers, system and machine builders, integrators, distributors, consultancies, research organizations and academia. The EMVA hosts four international vision standards, and all members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the dedicated networking, standardization, and cooperation activities of the EMVA. www.emva.org

8th European Machine Vision Forum in Fürth/Germany – Key Takeaways

Emphasizing the sensorial basis of machine vision, the focus topic of this year’s 8th European Machine Vision Forum on October 16-17 in Fürth at the Development Center X-ray Technology of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS was “Imaging the Invisible”. The key here is to find an “information channel” that is able to transport the image information relevant to the task at hand. In contrast to “checking by looking,” as humans do, machine vision exceeds human capabilities in some respects. This applies to the usable wavelength range of the spectrum (from Radar to Terahertz, IR, the visible range, UV, and X-rays), but also to other modalities such as acoustic data and methods for evaluating image data that are not accessible to humans like approaches based on machine learning. All of this year’s forum contributions related to this focus topic and highlighted its various aspects.

Focal topic: Imaging the invisible
The hosting Development Center X-ray Technology set a topical focus on sensor technologies based on X-rays. In several presentations and during an extensive tour of the laboratories, various technologies for using X-rays for imaging in industrial visual inspection were presented. In addition to simple images that provide a projection as a special view into the material, X-ray videos and CT reconstructions of the internal structure of technical objects as 3D models were particularly impressive. These sensory insights were supplemented by contributions on imaging using radar and terahertz radiation. A second focus in the field of imaging using electromagnetic waves was the use of a large number of channels using multi- and hyperspectral sensor technology. These sensory impulses were supplemented by approaches such as the use of single photons (using SPADs), quantum dots for image capture in the short-wave IR range, and acoustic sensor technology. The presentations on sensory solutions were supplemented by two approaches to evaluate camera performance, e.g. by extending the EMVA1288 standard. Several contributions presented possible areas of application in industrial quality assurance, particularly for detecting defects inside materials and material classification, and in medical diagnostics, for example in dermatology.

Main topics of the keynotes
The three keynote speeches highlighted different aspects of the focus topic “Imaging the invisible.” The presentation by Michael Salamon from the host Development Center X-ray Technology of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS addressed the basics and the use of X-rays for imaging in various applications. Using the example of e-mobility, he showed how X-rays can be used to achieve the vision of flawless production by checking assembled components for completeness and defects with high resolution and accuracy, even without visual access. The sensor systems required for this were systematically developed at Fraunhofer IIS and transferred into applications. Other applications, such as the characterization of plant growth in the soil, can also be solved without intervention and thus without disruption. Jeroen Kalkman from Delft University devoted his keynote to optical coherence tomography. This technology can be used to examine the spatial and optical properties of object surfaces and partially transparent layers. Using the example of the art-historical examination of a painting, he demonstrated how repairs and restorations can be analyzed and documented in the image data. Insights into OCT research show that this technology still has considerable potential for the spatial examination of partially transparent objects. Finally, Boris Landgraf from Cosine gave a keynote presentation on the use of satellite-based multispectral sensor technology for Earth observation and astronomy applications. Particularly impressive were the requirements for reliable operation of this sensor technology in space and the sensor systems implemented on various missions.

Visit to the host institute and accompanying exhibition
A particular highlight of the two-day forum was the detailed tour of the hosting Development Center X-ray Technology. The various applications of X-ray-based imaging were presented at several stations, including the creation of complete 3D models of large objects such as entire cars and the examination of plant growth in an automated laboratory. In addition to the presentations, more than 20 posters and company presentations showcased research results, activities, and products related to the focus topic “Imaging the Invisible.” In an evening session, working groups from the host institute and companies from the surrounding area presented their main areas of focus.

Positive feedback from participants
The focal topic of high significance to the industry discussed in-depth by leading research experts and a host institute specialized in this very technology; combined with the unique networking opportunities between company representatives and the research sector made the European Machine Vision Forum 2025 again to an event which was praised by the attendees for its professional approach and high relevance.


About EMVA

Founded in 2003, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is a not-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe that is open for all types of organizations having a stake in machine vision, computer vision, embedded vision or imaging technologies: manufacturers, system and machine builders, integrators, distributors, consultancies, research organizations and academia. The EMVA hosts four international vision standards, and all members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the dedicated networking, standardization, and cooperation activities of the EMVA. www.emva.org

8th European Machine Vision Forum in Fürth/Germany – Research meets Application

Focal topic „Imaging the Invisible“ with the latest findings from sensor technology beyond human perception

Barcelona; September 11th, 2025. At the European Machine Vision Forum 2025 organized by EMVA, which will take place this year on October 16th and 17th in Fürth, Germany, machine vision experts from science and industry will once again meet in a unique setting to exchange ideas. The event will be hosted by the Fraunhofer Development Center for X-ray Technology at Fraunhofer IIS.

Regarding the forum’s focal topic, “Imaging the Invisible,” the forum chair Professor Michael Heizmann explains: “Our headline in 2025 addresses new capabilities and research findings in the field of sensor technology. A lot has happened in this area in recent years. We can see this, for example, at the host Development Center for X-ray Technology at Fraunhofer IIS, where another high-energy hall for X-ray inspection of very large objects is nearing completion. The fact that we will be able to experience these latest facilities live on site will certainly make the European Machine Vision Forum 2025 an unforgettable experience for participants.” In addition, other sensor principles presented in this year’s program also open up possibilities for obtaining more information than is visible to the human eye. These include terahertz, multi- and hyperspectral data, radar, thermography, and single photon imaging. In most cases, the aim is to learn something about the material or internal structure of objects that humans cannot perceive.

The host institute will deliver the opening keynote “X-ray Technology – Key for Overcoming Technological and Economic Challenges,” given by Michael Salamon, group manager for high-energy X-ray systems at the Fraunhofer IIS Development Center for X-ray Technology. Jeroen Kalkman, Associate Professor at TU Delft, will focus on 3D imaging in his keynote speech on the afternoon of the first conference day with his presentation “Advancements in 3D Imaging Using Optical Coherence Tomography.” Marco Beijersbergen, CEO of Cosine, a company specializing in optical space instruments, will address the topic of multispectral imaging in his keynote speech “Multispectral Sensors for Space Applications” on the morning of the second day. The other presentations will showcase a wide variety of sensor principles in their latest state of development.

The program is complemented by poster presentations, an exhibition area, and ample space for networking among participants. “Meaningful collaborations usually arise at the interfaces between technologies and applications,” emphasizes forum chair Prof. Heizmann in this context. “It is therefore extremely important that user companies are informed about new technologies and, on the other hand, that research institutions learn about the specific problems faced by users. This exchange is the main purpose of the forum.”

The host institute is eagerly anticipating the event, as Dr. Norman Uhlmann, Division Director the Development Center for X-ray Technology of the Fraunhofer IIS, Fürth, confirms: “We are thrilled to host the 2025 European Machine Vision Forum and will contribute to the event by presenting some of the latest developments of its x-ray technologies, such as the XXL computer tomography where high x-ray energies enable the full 3d examination of very large objects such as, for example, assembled vehicles.”

More information about the 8th European Machine Vision Forum and registration at www.european-forum-emva.org.


About EMVA

Founded in 2003, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is a not-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe that is open for all types of organizations having a stake in machine vision, computer vision, embedded vision or imaging technologies: manufacturers, system and machine builders, integrators, distributors, consultancies, research organizations and academia. The EMVA hosts four international vision standards, and all members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the dedicated networking, standardization, and cooperation activities of the EMVA. www.emva.org

Dr. Rolandos Alexandros Potamias wins EMVA Young Professional Award 2025

Awarded work “High-fidelity 3D Hand Modelling, Detection and Reconstruction in world-coordinates” presented at EMVA Business Conference in Rome.
Next conference 2026 will take place in Stockholm.

Rome, Italy, May 27th, 2025. The EMVA Young Professional Award 2025 goes to Dr. Rolandos Alexandros Potamias for his work “High-fidelity 3D Hand Modelling, Detection and Reconstruction in world-coordinates”. The awardee was announced on 23 May during the 23th EMVA Business Conference in Rome, where he also had the opportunity to present his work as part of the regular conference program. Rolandos Alexandros Potamias is a postdoctoral researcher in 3D Computer Vision at the Department of Computing of Imperial College London in United Kingdom, focusing on perceiving and modelling humans. Rolandos holds a MEng from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in National Technical University of Athens. He obtained his PhD degree from Imperial College London under the supervision of Stefanos Zafeiriou with the thesis entitled “Advances of graph neural networks for 3D shape learning and analysis”. Rolandos’ current research efforts focus on building foundational embodied AI for open-world robots.

Awarded Work: High-fidelity 3D Hand Modelling, Detection and Reconstruction in World-coordinates
Given their power to express human behaviour and interact with objects, hands present a very important, but still challenging to model component of the human body. The significance of hand modelling can be further amplified considering its social benefit amongst deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. Currently, most of the hand modelling methods rely on low polygon hand models that fail to capture the intricate details of the hands, making real-world AR/VR applications extremely challenging. Apart from its low polygon count, current hand models are trained using limited subjects, which not only prohibits their expressive power but also imposes unnecessary shape reconstruction constraints on 3D hand pose estimation methods. Moreover, hand appearance remains almost unexplored and neglected from the majority of hand reconstruction methods.

The awarded research can be divided in three main components: i) hand shape modelling, ii) hand detection and iii) 3D hand reconstruction. To achieve highly detailed 3D hand reconstruction, Potamias’ developed a large-scale model of the human hand, called Handy, modelling both shape and appearance, composed of over 1200 subjects with large diversity in age, gender, and ethnicity, enabling accurate reconstruction of out-of-distribution samples. Following this work, Potamias’ introduced WiLoR, a data-driven transformer-based pipeline for efficient and real-time multi-hand detection and 3D reconstruction from in-the-wild images. The developed model can efficiently detect and estimate the hand shapes and poses from images containing multiple hands. To enable motion modelling of the hands in the world-space, especially from egocentric wearable camera settings where hands and camera are continuously in motion, Potamias’ developed HaWoR, a SLAM-based hand motion reconstruction model. HaWoR decouples the task of 3D world-coordination hand motion reconstruction in two steps; reconstructing the hand motion in the camera space, and estimating the camera trajectory in the world coordinate system.

The technologies developed from Potamias’ research have received commercial attention and can further advance the various industrial applications ranging from augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) and virtual try-on to embodied AI and robot-learning.

About the EMVA Young Professional Award
The EMVA Young Professional Award is an annual award to honor the outstanding and innovative work of a student or a young professional in the field of machine vision or image processing. It is the goal of the European Machine Vision Association EMVA to further support innovation in the machine vision industry, to contribute to the important aspect of dedicated machine vision education and to provide a bridge between research and industry. With the annual Young Professional Award the EMVA intends to specifically encourage students to focus on challenges in the field of machine vision and to apply latest research results and findings in computer vision to the practical needs of the industry. The Award winner is presented during the EMVA Business Conference.

Location of next EMVA Business Conference 2026
Traditionally, at the end of the conference it was announced in which city the next, 24th EMVA Business Conference will take place. The machine vision industry will meet from 18 – 20 June, 2026 in Stockholm/Sweden.

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Photo (From left to right): EMVA Board Member Petra Thanner; EMVA Young Professional Award 2025 winner Dr. Rolandos Alexandros Potamias; EMVA President Dr. Chris Yates;
Picture source: EMVA


About EMVA

Founded in 2003, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is a not-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe that is open for all types of organizations having a stake in machine vision, computer vision, embedded vision or imaging technologies: manufacturers, system and machine builders, integrators, distributors, consultancies, research organizations and academia. The EMVA hosts four international vision standards, and all members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the dedicated networking, standardization, and cooperation activities of the EMVA. www.emva.org

Networking and program highlights at EMVA Business Conference 2025 in Rome

• Keynotes address geopolitical and socio-economic topics
• Italian vision industry highlighted in two talks
• Record number of pre-booked of B2B-meetings

Barcelona,​ May 20th, 2025. Just about two weeks after the world has watched the Conclave in the Vatican, the 23rd EMVA Business Conference takes place from 22 – 24 May in the eternal city of Rome. Around 110 vision-tech CEOs and other decision makers from machine vision enterprises and institutes out of 14 nations from Europe and overseas meet in Italy’s capital.

The opening keynote traditionally addressing macro-economic topics this year is given by Marcelo Carvalho with his talk “European Business Outlook – Navigating through the New Reality”. In addition, the vivid machine vision eco system in the host country Italy will be introduced by iMAGE S-CEO and EMVA Board member Marco Diani. Furthermore, pasta, the Italian national dish, is represented in the program by no one less than the Technical Development Manager Automation at Barilla who titled his talk “Understanding Vision Tech in the Food Industry”.

Many different aspects of core machine vision technology will be addressed by the other speakers in the technical part of the conference program. This includes Industrial Computed Tomography; FT spectral imaging; Railway Specific Challenges and Requirements for Fully Automated Train Operations; Imaging Trends in Defense & Security; and a talk about the future of vision sensing technology revolutionizing the way we perceive and process visual data.

The panel discussion at the beginning of the second conference day gets back on the economy and is titled “De-globalization – Managing the Change”. “Acquisitions and Inorganic Growth Considerations” is the title of another talk, a strategic topic which has been shaping the industry in the last two decades. The closing keynote by resilience coach Charlie Cannon, on the other hand this time is laid out as interactive session as it addresses Resilient Performance for Changing Times.

Besides of attractive and informative talks the EMVA Business Conference is recognized as a quite special event in the machine vision calendar because of the extraordinary networking opportunities offered. In this respect, one record has already been broken: More than 170 face-to-face meetings amongst attendees have been pre-booked in the forerunning of the conference, more than ever before during an EMVA Business Conference. On top, the evening socializing events on Thursday and Friday offer plenty of additional opportunities to connect with other participants in a pleasant atmosphere.

More information on the conference website www.business-conference-emva.org.


About EMVA

Founded in 2003, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is a not-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe that is open for all types of organizations having a stake in machine vision, computer vision, embedded vision or imaging technologies: manufacturers, system and machine builders, integrators, distributors, consultancies, research organizations and academia. The EMVA hosts four international vision standards, and all members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the dedicated networking, standardization, and cooperation activities of the EMVA. www.emva.org

LogiMAT 2025: Exhibition Highlights at the EMVA Member Booth

Eight co-exhibiting EMVA members present machine vision technology for logistics applications.

Barcelona, February 28nd, 2025. For the second time, EMVA will be represented at LogiMAT with a joint stand. From March 11 – 13, eight EMVA member companies will be presenting their latest image processing solutions for the logistics industry at the Stuttgart trade fair in Hall 2, Stand 2C18:

MBJ Imaging will be showcasing their Patternlight product, among others. It projects patterns onto surfaces and enables 3D measurements to be carried out using stereovision. The company will also be presenting Cooled Power Spotlight, a high-performance light optimized for continuous operation with active air cooling and an integrated controller for easy commissioning.

phil-vision presents FeaturePrint® at the common EMVA booth, a revolutionary method of identification without printed features. Instead of conventional IDs, the features of the product or packaging are used as a unique identification feature. The innovative object recognition is based on perfect image capture combined with artificial intelligence.

Advantech’s AI Edge Solutions bring intelligence to logistics operations. Powered by NVIDIA® Jetson™, the MIC Jetson series delivers GPU workstation-level performance, ideal for automated sorting, package inspection, route optimization, and warehouse automation. For Autonomous Mobile Robots, the MIC-732-AO AI Inference System provides the edge AI capabilities needed for precise navigation, object detection, and real-time decision-making in warehouse and logistics environments.

Effilux will showcase on the common EMVA member booth a logistic automation system to read barcodes on any kind of pallets at high speed. More generally, Effilux’s logistic product portfolio can cover a wide range of use-cases in warehouses as size, IP rating, and software are all adjustable to match your needs.

Murrelektronik showcases at LogiMAT 2025 its modular, manufacturer-independent, fully pluggable machine vision installation solutions that bring signals, data and power into the immediate machine environment.

The Lightgistics Series from Smart Vision Lights is the first range of machine vision lights built for the logistics industry. With cutting-edge Dual OverDrive™ technology Lightgistics lights ensure unmatched brightness enabling precise barcode reading, OCR, and OCV on any package, regardless of material or speed.

OPT presents its latest smart code readers for fast, accurate, and reliable decoding in logistics, warehousing. With AI-powered deep learning algorithms, they efficiently read damaged, low-contrast, or curved barcodes, including high-density DPM codes.

Last but not least, Roboception as a provider of intelligent robot vision platforms and systems at LogiMAT 2025 will present their brand-new software module ItemPickAI – a smart solution for flexible pick-and-place robotic applications. It combines high-performance AI models with classical to pick and precisely place unknown, flexible objects such as bags.


About EMVA

Founded in 2003, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is a not-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe that is open for all types of organizations having a stake in machine vision, computer vision, embedded vision or imaging technologies: manufacturers, system and machine builders, integrators, distributors, consultancies, research organizations and academia. The EMVA hosts four international vision standards, and all members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the dedicated networking, standardization, and cooperation activities of the EMVA. www.emva.org

EMVA expert forum at LogiMAT 2025

Three keynote speeches on the topic of “AI-based image processing is changing logistics”.

Barcelona, 24 February 2025. Machine vision plays a decisive role in the optimization of logistics processes. At this year’s LogiMAT, three keynote speakers will show how AI and machine vision can optimize logistics processes at the EMVA expert forum “AI-based machine vision is changing logistics” on Tuesday, March 11 from 3 pm. – 3.50 pm. in the LogiMAT Arena, Atrium, East Entrance:

Dr. Michael Suppa, CEO, Roboception GmbH will be speaking on the topic of “AI-based Perception of Unknown Flexible Items”. The presentation by Shane MacNamara, Senior Vice President Research & Development, SICK AG is entitled “AI: Game-Changer in Image-Based Solutions for the Logistics Industry”; and Adrian Vich, Application Engineer, Stemmer Imaging ES will present on the topic of “Revolutionizing Efficiency and Precision Across Logistics Operations”. The expert forum will be moderated by Arndt Bake EMVA Treasurer and General Manager GTM EMEA, Basler AG.

The event will be simultaneously translated and is free of charge for LogiMAT visitors.


About EMVA

Founded in 2003, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is a not-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe that is open for all types of organizations having a stake in machine vision, computer vision, embedded vision or imaging technologies: manufacturers, system and machine builders, integrators, distributors, consultancies, research organizations and academia. The EMVA hosts four international vision standards, and all members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the dedicated networking, standardization, and cooperation activities of the EMVA. www.emva.org

EMVA Young Professional Award 2025 – Call for Application

Prestigious industry award with prize money, presentation at EMVA Business Conference in Rome and free pass for European Machine Vision Forum 2025.

Barcelona, February 11th, 2025. It is the goal of the European Machine Vision Association to support further innovation in our industry, to contribute to the important aspect of dedicated machine vision education, and to provide a bridge between research and industry. The EMVA Young Professional Award is an annual award endowed with 1,500 Euros to honor the outstanding and innovative work of a student or a young professional in the field of machine vision or image processing.

With the EMVA Young Professional Award, the EMVA specifically encourages students and young scientists to focus on challenges in the field of machine vision and to apply latest research results and findings in computer vision to the practical needs of our industry. Applicants for the EMVA Young Professional Award 2025 are hereby invited to submit their work. Among all papers the EMVA Board of Directors, representing the European Machine Vision Industry, will select the winner of the award.

The criteria of the works to be presented are:

  • Outstanding or innovative work in the field of vision technology. Industrial relevance and collaboration with a company during the work is required. The targeted industry is free of choice.
  • The work (master thesis or PHD thesis or equivalent level research) must have been undertaken within the last 18 months at, or in collaboration with, a European institution. Meanwhile the student may have entered the professional field.

To apply please submit the following materials to the EMVA President, Dr Chris Yates, at ypa@emva.org latest until March 30th, 2025:

  • A two-page abstract summarizing the innovation and the intended commercial benefit
  • A one-page CV
  • A copy of the master thesis or PhD thesis. If not yet finished or under publication restrictions, please provide at least one accepted publication
  • Supportive letters of research supervisors and/or any collaborating company are welcomed but not mandatory.

More information at www.emva.org/news/young-professional-award-25-call-for-application/.

The winner of the award will be announced at the EMVA Business Conference 2025 taking place May 22nd – 24th in Rome, Italy, and will have the opportunity to present the awarded work to the machine vision industry leaders and special press representatives. In addition to the honor of the EMVA Young Professional Award endowed with 1,500 Euros and the publicity for the research work is a free conference pass for the EMVA Business Conference as well as the coverage of all travel cost to Rome and a free pass for the European Machine Vision Forum taking place in autumn 2025.


About the European Machine Vision Forum

The European Machine Vision Forum is an annual event of the European Machine Vision Association - EMVA. 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 challenges 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.

Machine vision as a key enabling technology for intralogistics at the EMVA member booth and at the expert forum at LogiMAT 2025

Barcelona, January 29th, 2025. Cameras have become indispensable in logistics for upgrading processes and increasing efficiency; from AI-supported product identification to autonomous conveyor platforms and fully automated warehouses. At LogiMAT 2025, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) will once again provide detailed information in two exhibition areas about machine vision as key enabling technology for the intralogistics sector.

EMVA joint stand at LogiMAT 2025
At the member booth in Hall 2, EMVA member companies will be showcasing their solution expertise for machine vision applications in intralogistics. This year, the companies ADVANTECH Europe B.V.; Roboception GmbH; OPT Machine Vision GmbH; Effilux SAS; Smart Vision Lights and Murrelektronik GmbH are amongst the co-exhibitors. Visitors to the stand with and without machine vision experience are welcome to talk to the company experts on site about specific projects as well as the fundamental advantages and possible applications of machine vision in intralogistics. EMVA will also be presenting its own range of services and annual events to visitors. Location: Hall 2, Stand C18.

Expert forum in the LogiMAT Arena
In the expert forum of the LogiMAT Arena (Atrium East Entrance), a series of short presentations hosted by EMVA will present the most exciting possibilities at the interface of machine vision and intralogistics. EMVA member companies will clearly demonstrate how these innovative solutions with high user benefits can improve automation in intralogistics and how AI and machine vision can optimize logistics processes. When: Tuesday, 11th March from 15:00-15:50 p.m.


About the European Machine Vision Forum

The European Machine Vision Forum is an annual event of the European Machine Vision Association - EMVA. 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 challenges 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.