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New Chair GenICam Standard Working Group elected

Michael Schmidt takes over from long-term serving Dr. Fritz Dierks    

Barcelona,​ December 19th, 2022. During the last International Vision Standards Meeting (IVSM) in Tokyo/Japan the GenICam Working Group has elected Michael Schmidt as new Chair of the Standard Working Group. Michael Schmidt leads a camera development team at Basler AG. He takes over the position from Dr. Fritz Dierks who has been leading the GenICam working group for almost 18 years and chose not to stand for another reelection to initiate the process of rejuvenating the board of the GenICam standard working group. The GenICam standard is hosted by the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA).

“I would like to thank Fritz for his relentless work driving standardization in the machine vision industry throughout all these years. The impact of his strategic vision on the industry is a lasting contribution to standardization as one of the core pillars for the success of machine vision technology,” says Michael Schmidt.

Also, the EMVA Board of Directors thanks Dr. Dierks for his extraordinary and long-term engagement to serve the machine vision industry.


About EMVA The European Machine Vision Association is a non-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe. The association was founded in 2003 to promote the development and use of vision technology in all sectors, and represents members from within Europe, North America, and Asia. The EMVA 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. All members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the networking, cooperation, standardization, and the numerous and diverse activities of the EMVA. The EMVA is the host of four global machine vision standards: The two widely established standards GenICam and EMVA 1288 as well as the two standardization initiatives Open Optics Camera Interface (OOCI) and Embedded Vision Interface Standard (emVision).

Review 5th European Machine Vision Forum in Cork, Ireland

Unique interchange between research and industry continues 2023 in the Netherlands.

Barcelona,​ November 11th, 2022. Organized by the European Machine Vision Association, the fifth European Machine Vision Forum end of October in Cork/Ireland once again brought together industry and academic machine vision experts in a unique setting.

Through the hosting Tyndall Institute, the European Machine Vision Forum became a door opener of its own kind for all attendees for a deep dive into the vivid Irish Vision Tech Ecosystem covering both academic and industrial activities. This included a broad spectrum of vision-tech activities ranging from driver assistance and autonomous driving to manufacturing and quality assurance of microelectronics; all in top-notch equipped research and production facilities.

One highlight of the conference agenda was the Keynote on Terahertz Light-Field Imaging given by Professor Ullrich Pfeiffer from the University of Wuppertal who discussed challenges in beam generation and sensing as well as evaluation and introduced new approaches to solve these encounters which could also give new impulse in the visible light spectrum. The broad spectrum of machine vision technology was further covered by presentations dealing with multi-/hyperspectral image acquisition as well as real-time 3D data acquisition; high quality components for image acquisition; but also energy efficiency as a growing requirement as well as hardware support for machine vision algorithms which was highlighted in the second Keynote presenting emerging photonic platforms for developing optical non-von Neumann computing devices. Furthermore, the list of topics also included the currently very heavily researched topic of machine learning with neuronal networks. Here it was shown how this promising approach can be brought together with proven concepts, e.g. from measurement technology and computer science.

The 6th European Machine Vision Forum is already scheduled to take place 2023 in Wageningen/The Netherlands in cooperation with Wageningen University and Research. More details will be announced soon.

 

Social Media feedback post of a 2022 participant in Cork/Ireland:

“Enriching presentations on current vision topics coupled with insights into local Irish research, industry and (pub) culture – the 5th European Machine Vision Forum in Cork was definitely worth the trip! I am already looking forward to the next forum at Wageningen University.”

 

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.


About EMVA The European Machine Vision Association is a non-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe. The association was founded in 2003 to promote the development and use of vision technology in all sectors, and represents members from within Europe, North America, and Asia. The EMVA 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. All members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the networking, cooperation, standardization, and the numerous and diverse activities of the EMVA. The EMVA is the host of four global machine vision standards: The two widely established standards GenICam and EMVA 1288 as well as the two standardization initiatives Open Optics Camera Interface (OOCI) and Embedded Vision Interface Standard (emVision).

International Vision Night 2022 on 3 October

Registration open for EMVA-Networking event on the eve of VISION 2022

Barcelona/Stuttgart, September 6th, 2022. The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is pleased to invite to the 13th International Vision Night 2022 takes place on 03 October in the microbrewery of the Parkhotel Stuttgart Messe/Airport.

As the perfect attunement to the eagerly anticipated show days, the International Vision Night on the evening prior to the VISION 2022 opening offers the perfect mixture of networking and celebrating in a relaxed atmosphere. Since usually the international machine vision scene has already arrived in Stuttgart, this evening offers the perfect opportunity to meet and talk to business partners, colleagues and friends.

EMVA-members and non-members are cordially invited to join the relaxed get-together of machine vision experts from all over the world. More details on the event and how to register for the International Vision Night which is usually booked out rather soon can be found at www.vision-night-emva.org.

 


About EMVA The European Machine Vision Association is a non-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe. The association was founded in 2003 to promote the development and use of vision technology in all sectors, and represents members from within Europe, North America, and Asia. The EMVA 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. All members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the networking, cooperation, standardization, and the numerous and diverse activities of the EMVA. The EMVA is the host of four global machine vision standards: The two widely established standards GenICam and EMVA 1288 as well as the two standardization initiatives Open Optics Camera Interface (OOCI) and Embedded Vision Interface Standard (emVision).

EMVA appoints new Business Development Manager

Oliver Scheel will drive networking internally and externally in the vision tech sector    

 

Barcelona, September 1st, 2022. The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) today announced that Oliver Scheel has joined the EMVA team as Business Development Manager, effective September 1st. Central to his role at the EMVA will be the expansion of the exchange among industry participants, both inside and outside the association, as well as the dialogue with vision tech users, who will be increasingly involved in the association’s work in the future. The role will also support the continued growth and visibility of the EMVA as the leading European vision trade association.

“The EMVA has taken the time to identify the perfect match for this important new role of Business Development Manager. Oliver Scheel brings a wealth of experience in the industry and an enthusiastic approach to the growth of the association and ensuring we provide further benefits to our members. We are excited for the future and truly delighted to welcome Oliver to the EMVA team” says EMVA President Dr. Chris Yates.

“In my new position, I am very much looking forward to getting back in touch with the vision community and thus our EMVA members as well as potential new members. As such I am thrilled to meet the industry during VISION 2022 in Stuttgart at the latest” says Oliver Scheel. “The EMVA has set itself the goal of further expanding its leading role as an association and, together with the members, to think outside the box wherever necessary. This is both an exciting and motivating task for my future work.”

Oliver Scheel has long been familiar with the machine vision industry. He worked for 13 years as Commercial Manager EMEA for the publisher of the trade magazine “inspect – World of Vision”. He then spent three years as Sales Director for a well-known publishing house in Stuttgart. Most recently, he held the position of Marketing Director at a non-university research institution of the state of Baden-Württemberg, which conducts research projects in the field of artificial intelligence, among other things.


About EMVA The European Machine Vision Association is a non-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe. The association was founded in 2003 to promote the development and use of vision technology in all sectors, and represents members from within Europe, North America, and Asia. The EMVA 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. All members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the networking, cooperation, standardization, and the numerous and diverse activities of the EMVA. The EMVA is the host of four global machine vision standards: The two widely established standards GenICam and EMVA 1288 as well as the two standardization initiatives Open Optics Camera Interface (OOCI) and Embedded Vision Interface Standard (emVision).

Updated terms in EMVA 1288 and GenICam standard require relicensing

Communication of EMVA 1288 standard logo and compatibility of data sheets as of June 21 requires new license
 Also co-designing terms of GenICam standard in working group adjusted

Barcelona, Spain; June 23rd, 2022. With the release 4.0 of the EMVA 1288 standard last year also new terms of use came into force, which are now applied after a transition period of one year. Thus, the old license expired for all users on June 21, 2022. From this date on, new datasheets in which data is designated as EMVA 1288 compatible and marked with the EMVA 1288 logo may only be published if the new EMVA 1288 license has been applied for and approved by the creator of the datasheets. The usage remains free of charge under the new license. Download the new license application.

GenICam working group with new registration
Furthermore, the general conditions for participation and thus active involvement in the GenICam working group hosted by EMVA have changed, which requires a re-registration for all participating company representatives. Thus, on June 30, 2022, the old membership expires for GenICam working group members and access to the working group, its meetings and documents is only possible after a new registration with this application. The use of the GenICam logo as well as the use of the reference implementation, both available here, will remain free of charge under the new license.


About EMVA The European Machine Vision Association is a non-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe. The association was founded in 2003 to promote the development and use of vision technology in all sectors, and represents members from within Europe, North America, and Asia. The EMVA 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. All members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the networking, cooperation, standardization, and the numerous and diverse activities of the EMVA. The EMVA is the host of four global machine vision standards: The two widely established standards GenICam and EMVA 1288 as well as the two standardization initiatives Open Optics Camera Interface (OOCI) and Embedded Vision Interface Standard (emVision).

Karsten Roth wins EMVA Young Professional Award 2022

Next EMVA Business Conference 2023 will be held in Sevilla, Spain celebrating the associations’ 20th anniversary.

Brussels, Belgium; 16 May, 2022. The EMVA Young Professional Award 2022 goes to Karsten Roth for his work “Towards Total Recall in Industrial Anomaly Detection”. The awardee was announced on 13 May during the 20th EMVA Business Conference in Brussels/Belgium, where he also had the opportunity to present his work as part of the regular conference program.

Karsten Roth is a PhD researcher with the Explainable Machine Learning group at the University of Tübingen as part of the International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems (IMPRS-IS) and the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS). He is co-supervised by Zeynep Akata and Oriol Vinyals (Deepmind). Karsten has completed both Bachelor and Master studies in Physics at Heidelberg University in 2021, and has spent time abroad in Canada as a researcher at the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) and the Vector Institute in Toronto, working on all manners of representation learning. He has also worked as a research intern at the Amazon AWS research lablet in Tuebingen on Anomaly Detection.

Awarded Work: Towards Total Recall in Industrial Anomaly Detection
Automated industrial anomaly detection and visual inspection for manufacturing is one of the most successful applications of computer vision in industry with significant return-on-investment, as being able to spot defective parts is a critical component in large-scale industrial manufacturing. A particular challenge is the cold-start problem, in which a model only has access to nominal (non-defective) example images during training as images of potential downstream defects may not be available, or completely unknown defects may be encountered during production that still need to be detected. Instead of developing handcrafted solutions specific to each task and manufacturing problem, an ideal system should be deployable on arbitrary tasks while achieving state-of-the-art detection performance. In addition, such an anomaly detection system should be scalable, sample-efficient and fast.
As part of the research work, a novel automated visual anomaly detection method – PatchCore – was developed that satisfies all key criteria. In particular, a nominal image is broken down into regions represented by features extracted from standard pretrained deep neural networks. As such, no specific network training has to be performed, which makes PatchCore task agnostic. For all training images, a joint memory is utilized to aggregate all extractable nominal features, which retains a maximal amount of nominal context to make PatchCore as sample-efficient as possible. Scalability and inference speed are subsequently achieved by significantly reducing the memory through an advanced subsampling approach which still retains all relevant information. This memory of “normality” can then be utilized to both determine anomalous images as well as localize anomalous areas efficiently. A large range of experimental studies highlight a significant improvement over the previous state-of-the-art at low inference times, matching the performance of competitors with only a fraction of the available data.

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.

Next EMVA Business conference takes place in Seville/Spain
Celebrating its 20th anniversary next year the EMVA will return to its founding county Spain. The next EMVA Business Conference will be held in Seville, the date will be announced soon.

Photo: EMVA Young Professional Award Winner Karsten Roth (left), EMVA President Dr. Chris Yates; Picture source: EMVA


About EMVA The European Machine Vision Association is a non-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe. The association was founded in 2003 to promote the development and use of vision technology in all sectors, and represents members from within Europe, North America, and Asia. The EMVA 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. All members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the networking, cooperation, standardization, and the numerous and diverse activities of the EMVA. The EMVA is the host of four global machine vision standards: The two widely established standards GenICam and EMVA 1288 as well as the two standardization initiatives Open Optics Camera Interface (OOCI) and Embedded Vision Interface Standard (emVision).

Agenda for EMVA Business Conference 2022 in Brussels is complete

About 120 participants registered for first physical get-together of machine vision industry in Europe after pandemic break

 Barcelona, Spain; May 5th, 2022. After two virtual editions the first EMVA Business Conference with physical presence from May 12 – 14, 2022 in Brussels, Belgium is going to host about 120 conference delegates. The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) as conference organizer has completed the conference agenda filled with top-notch speakers addressing burning topics in the vision-tech scene and beyond. The opening keynote “The Changing Face of Geopolitics in the 2020’s” given by Sunday Times Editor Peter Conradi who lived in Russia for seven years could not be more relevant in this new stage of European and world history. Guido Hertel who is Partner at AT Kearney examines Resilience in the Manufacturing Industry and the The Impact of Corona and Semiconductor Crises. Furthermore, Tim Baeyens, Chief Strategy Officer of Gpixel will introduce the vivid vision-tech activities in the conference host country Belgium.

The technical part of the conference covers the whole spectrum of vision technology development. Erik Widding, President at Birger Engineering focusses his talk on “Goals and Objectives of Lens Platform Developments”. Industry 4.0 and what it takes to bring it to life with edge devices is in the center of the presentation from Siemens Digital Industries Innovation Manager Boris Scharinger. Shane MacNamara who is Senior Vice President Research & Development at SICK talks about “Challenges and Opportunities in Creating a Broad 3D Vision Portfolio”. Furthermore, image sensor development is addressed in several program items. Pawel Malinowski from IMEC in Belgium talks about “Quantum dots enabling accessible SWIR imaging”. A high caliber panel discussion brings together a group of experts who will share their insights on the future of non-visible imaging which over the past years has seen tremendous progress in the underlying technology as well as understanding of applications where non-visible imaging can add value. The topic is further deepened on the second conference day by Prof. Dr. Bernd Jähne from Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing (HCI) in his talk “The Significant Technical Progress of Non-Visible Image Sensors”.

Cybersecurity and Cybercrime are in the focus both in a conference presentation given by Mark Hebbel, Head of Consultancy and Startup Studio at Chainstep; as well as in the closing keynote from Crime- & Intelligence Analyst and Business Psychologist Mark T. Hofmann.

Another key element of the EMVA Business Conference is the presentation of the EMVA Young Professional Award and an introduction of the awarded work.

Last but not least, the EMVA Business Conference is known to provide plenty of room for networking which is even facilitated by the registration platform where all conference delegates can pre-schedule face-to-face meetings in the conference breaks.

More information and registration at www.business-conference-emva.org.

 

 Picture caption: Opening Keynote speaker Peter Conradi addresses the Changing Face of Geopolitics in the 2020’s; Picture source: Peter Conradi


About EMVA The European Machine Vision Association is a non-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe. The association was founded in 2003 to promote the development and use of vision technology in all sectors, and represents members from within Europe, North America, and Asia. The EMVA 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. All members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the networking, cooperation, standardization, and the numerous and diverse activities of the EMVA. The EMVA is the host of four global machine vision standards: The two widely established standards GenICam and EMVA 1288 as well as the two standardization initiatives Open Optics Camera Interface (OOCI) and Embedded Vision Interface Standard (emVision).

Call for Participation New Camera API Working Group

EMVA and Khronos Issue Call for Participation for New Camera API Working Group
Strong industry consensus to develop an open, cross-vendor API standard for portable control over camera systems in multiple markets

Barcelona, Spain / Beaverton, OR, USA; 20 January, 2022. The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA), the leading European industry association dedicated to vision technology, announces the formation of a new Working Group together with the Khronos® Group, an open consortium of industry-leading companies creating advanced interoperability standards, to develop an open, royalty-free API standard for controlling camera system runtimes in embedded, mobile, industrial, XR, automotive, and scientific markets. The Working Group will be hosted by the Khronos Group and is the result of an EMVA/Khronos-hosted Exploratory Group, held in 2021, during which over 70 companies participated to develop a Scope of Work document that will guide the direction of the API design. Design work of the Working Group is expected to start in February 2022, and any organization is invited to join to participate.

The background to form this Working Group is that cameras are increasingly critical in diverse industries, motivating the development of increasingly sophisticated optical systems, image sensors and vision processors often utilizing machine learning technology. However, the lack of interoperable camera API standards increases application development time and maintenance costs while reducing portability and opportunity for code reuse, resulting in unnecessarily high integration costs for camera technologies. The new Camera API will be designed to provide applications, libraries and frameworks low-level, explicit control over camera runtimes, with a low-level of abstraction that still provides application portability over a wide variety of camera systems with effective, performant control to generate streams of data for consumption by downstream applications and clients.

“The close and productive collaboration between the EMVA and Khronos has been very effective in enabling broader industry participation and diversity of perspectives at the Embedded Camera Exploratory Group than either organization could have achieved working alone,” said Chris Yates, EMVA president. “EMVA will continue our collaboration with Khronos under a new liaison agreement to ensure that the interests of both the EMVA membership and the wider industry are represented at the new Camera API working group.”

“The Embedded Camera API Exploratory Group followed the Khronos New Initiative Process with invaluable cooperation from the EMVA. Over seventy companies worked together from March to December 2021 to forge strong industry consensus on the need, terminology, scope, requirements and design methodology for a new open standard camera system API,” said Neil Trevett, Khronos president. “Now, we warmly invite any interested companies, vendors and developers to bring their voice and their expertise to the design phase of this important work.”

The Camera API Working Group will start meetings in February 2022 and is expected to be of particular interest to sensor or camera manufacturers, silicon vendors, and software developers working on vision and sensor processing. Any organization is welcome to join Khronos and participate in this global initiative under the consortium’s multi-company governance process. More details can be found on the Khronos membership page or through contacting Khronos Membership Services.

Industry Support for the Camera API Working
Over 70 companies participated in the Camera Exploratory group and the following companies support establishing the Camera API Working Group: Adimec, Almalence Inc., Analog Devices Inc., Basler AG, Baumer Optronic GmbH, Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Collabora, Digica, Digital Air Technologies, Euresys, European Machine Vision Association, FLIR Integrated Imaging Solutions, Google, Groget, Holochip Corporation, Ideas on Board Oy, LunarG, Inc., MATRIX VISION, MM Solutions, MVTec Software GmbH, NVIDIA, Perey Research & Consulting, Phil-Vision, Pleora Technologies, Raspberry PI Ltd, STEMMER IMAGING, Texas Instruments, VeriSilicon, Vision Components.

<Quotes from any Khronos, EMVA and Exploratory Group Members>
“The generic camera API will help Adimec to focus on our mission to deliver the right image in the right place at the right time, so our customers can focus on their imaging tasks. That is what we call ‘Excellence in Imaging’,” – The Adimec Team.

“Lack of API standards for advanced use of embedded cameras and sensors is an impediment to industry growth, collaboration and innovation. Enterprise AR customers and systems integrators/value added providers will benefit from greater clarity, open interfaces between modular systems and innovation in the component provider ecosystem. This Khronos standard for camera and sensor control will increase opportunities for powerful new combinations of sensor and AR compute resources, integration with existing IT, and lower cost and complexity of future solutions,” Christine Perey, interoperability and standards program leader for the Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA).

“Open interface standards such as GenICam or GigE Vision have been a key element to establish a professional Machine Vision Market. Only by such standards we can ensure the interoperability of products from different vendors. It helped to shorten the development cycles of customers dramatically and also yields in a faster growing market. Therefore we strongly support the new open standard camera API initiative driven by Khronos and the EMVA,” Arndt Bake, CDO, Basler AG.

“Over the past two decades, digital cameras used in embedded applications have changed dramatically. As video capture quality and processing power have increased, so has the potential for enhanced features which were unimaginable in early camera phones. The proliferation of features has resulted in a corresponding plethora of software support. The Embedded Camera Exploratory Group has laid the foundations for a consistent and extensible API to resolve this complexity; Digica is pleased to have contributed to this project and welcomes the development of the API under the new Working Group,” Jim Carroll, CTO, Digica.

“Due to high fragmentation and lack of standardization, the embedded camera space is subject to painful interoperability issues. Adding camera support in a product is complex and expensive, most often subject to vendor lock-in, when not practically impossible for small actors. Ideas on Board launched the libcamera project three years ago to address these issues in the Linux mobile, embedded and desktop ecosystems. We have contributed our experience to the Khronos Camera Exploratory Group, and are looking forward to continuing collaboration with the industry on a new open standard camera API,” said Laurent Pinchart, CEO, Ideas on Board, and lead architect of the libcamera® project.

“Cameras are everywhere and in everything, the market and applications have exploded in the last ten years. But a cohesive set of standard APIs has been slow to emerge making incompatibility challenging. Khronos, in conjunction with the European Machine Vision Association, is going to correct that and has formed this Working Group to develop an open API for cameras. This will be welcome news to industry participants and users alike,” said Jon Peddie, president, Jon Peddie Research.

“Existing standards, like GigE Vision and USB3 Vision, have proven that a standardization of software interfaces is beneficial for manufacturers and users. We believe that, in the rapidly changing world, Embedded Vision is significantly shaping the future of machine vision. A complementary standard for the embedded camera API is therefore important, and it makes camera control more reliable, hardware selection more flexible and shortens users’ time-to-market,” said Tilman Sanitz, head of embedded systems, Matrix Vision.

“A widely supported open standard camera API will spur innovation and reduce integration costs in multiple markets that use advanced sensors. NVIDIA has supported the work of the Exploratory Group and is committed to participating in the design work at this new Camera Working Group,” Sean Pieper, director of imaging software, NVIDIA.

“With the strong growth of camera applications in automotive, IoT, AR/VR devices, wearables and smartphones, there has been a strong demand for a standardized camera API in the industry. The standardized camera API that the Khronos group is working on will help facilitate the deployment of new cameras by reducing porting efforts, simplifying the procedures of camera upgrades, and improving the interoperability among various camera devices. This camera API standardization effort is very meaningful and will be highly influential to the related industry. We would like to see this standard API to be deployed soon,” said Weijin Dai, EVP, VeriSilicon.

 

About EMVA

The European Machine Vision Association is a non-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe. The association was founded in 2003 to promote the development and use of vision technology in all sectors, and represents members from within Europe, North America, and Asia. The EMVA 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. All members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the networking, cooperation, standardization, and the numerous and diverse activities of the EMVA. The EMVA is the host of four global machine vision standards: The two widely established standards GenICam and EMVA 1288 as well as the two standardization initiatives Open Optics Camera Interface (OOCI) and Embedded Vision Interface Standard (emVision).

About Khronos

The Khronos Group is an open, non-profit, member-driven consortium of over 180 industry-leading companies creating advanced, royalty-free, interoperability standards for 3D graphics, augmented and virtual reality, parallel programming, vision acceleration and machine learning. Khronos activities include 3D Commerce™, ANARI™, glTF™, NNEF™, OpenCL™, OpenGL®, OpenGL® ES, OpenVG™, OpenVX™, OpenXR™, SPIR-V™, SYCL™, Vulkan®, and WebGL™. Khronos members drive the development and evolution of Khronos specifications and are able to accelerate the delivery of cutting-edge platforms and applications through early access to specification drafts and conformance tests. www.khronos.org.
Khronos Group Press Contact:
Caster Communications Inc.; Khronos@castercomm.com

 

EMVA Young Professional Award 2022 – Call for Application

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 1500 Euros to honor the outstanding and innovative work of a student or a young professional in the field of machine vision or image processing.

Applicants for the EMVA Young Professional Award 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.

Applicants may submit the following materials to the EMVA President, Dr Chris Yates, at ypa@emva.org latest until March 31st, 2022:

  • 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.

With the award, the EMVA would like to specifically encourage 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.

The winner of the award will be announced at the flagship 20th EMVA Business Conference 2022 taking place May 12th – 14th in Brussels, Belgium, and will have the opportunity to present the awarded work to the machine vision industry leaders from Europe and abroad. The presentation may then be published by the international machine vision press. In addition to the honor of the EMVA Young Professional Award endowed with 1500 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 Brussels and a free pass for the 2022 European Machine Vision Forum in Ireland.

More information at www.emva.org/ypa2022.

 

 

About EMVA
The European Machine Vision Association is a non-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe. The association was founded in 2003 to promote the development and use of vision technology in all sectors, and represents members from within Europe, North America, and Asia. The EMVA 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. All members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the networking, cooperation, standardization, and the numerous and diverse activities of the EMVA. The EMVA is the host of four global machine vision standards: The two widely established standards GenICam and EMVA 1288 as well as the two standardization initiatives Open Optics Camera Interface (OOCI) and Embedded Vision Interface Standard (emVision).

New Location for EMVA Business Conference 2022

EMVA Business Conference 2022 takes place in Brussels

  • Location change due to low vaccination rate in former host country
  • Early Bird-Registration is open

Barcelona, 26 November, 2021. The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) recently announced that the next EMVA Business Conference 2022 will take place from 12 – 14 May 2022 in Brussels/Belgium. Considering the low vaccination rates in Bulgaria the originally planned destination Sofia has been changed to capital of the Belgium Kingdom.

Brussels as a center of European politics provides the appropriate infrastructure to plan and execute an international conference in challenging times where at the same time everyone longs for personal encounters.

The conference program will address up-to-date technical topics as well as relevant management, marketing and/or leadership issues. Use cases and a panel discussion will give further interesting insights. Last but surely not least, the conference will provide plenty of excellent networking opportunities during the evening events or by means of pre-scheduled face-to-face meetings in the conference break-out sessions.

Registration for this pivotal conference event in the machine vision industry taking place in Belgium next year is now open at reduced EARLY BIRD conference fees. More information is available at www.business-conference-emva.org.

 

About EMVA
The European Machine Vision Association is a non-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe. The association was founded in 2003 to promote the development and use of vision technology in all sectors, and represents members from within Europe, North America, and Asia. The EMVA 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. All members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the networking, cooperation, standardization, and the numerous and diverse activities of the EMVA. The EMVA is the host of four global machine vision standards: The two widely established standards GenICam and EMVA 1288 as well as the two standardization initiatives Open Optics Camera Interface (OOCI) and Embedded Vision Interface Standard (emVision).