- Meeting point at the interface between cutting edge research and commercial opportunity
- French evening provides insights in domestic machine vision eco system
Barcelona/Lyon, 13 August, 2019. By bringing together representatives from leading companies active in the machine vision sector, and researchers who are working on cutting edge topics, the annual European Machine Vision Forum taking place from 5 – 6 September in Lyon/France is a one-of-a-kind event providing benefits to both groups.
The well-chosen conference venue is the beautiful premises the Palais de la Bourse, the historic stock market in the heart of the city. Shortly before finalizing the program, the latest amendment was a “French Evening” presentation block covering machine vision activities in the hosting country. Four presentations from lighthouse institutions in French machine vision research and education will give insights in their fields of activity, namely the technology cluster Minalogic; LIRIS institute which is linked to University of Lyon; The French School for Vision Telecom Saint-Etienne & University Jean Monnet; and CEA-Leti institute based in Grenoble.
The conference format is complemented by a peer-selected poster session and an exhibition from leading companies including Allied Vision, Stemmer Imaging, Corning, Prophesee, and Advantech.
In the conference agenda a trio of three key note presentations by acknowledged experts define the common theme “Photonics and Machine Vision: Going Deep into Integration” and structure the event. From his current position as Senior Technologist Europe for Hamamatsu Photonics, Professor Dr., Peter Seitz will give a keynote presentation with the provocative title: ‘The future of image sensing – More intelligence or more sensing?’. Dr. Seitz suggests that greater utility in application can be achieved by using advanced processing techniques to include additional sensing functions at each pixel.
Professor Christian Wolf from the National Institute of Applied Sciences in Lyon will present his recent work in a talk entitled ‘Learning high-level reasoning in and from images’, which addresses the disconnect between how humans are able to simply infer both context and previous events from very short video clips, but yet this remains a complex problem to solve in an image sensing context. For example, given an image of a baby holding a soft toy and a subsequent image of the baby crying without the toy, it is simple for a human to reason that the baby is crying is because she no longer has the toy.
The third keynote speaker will be Dr. François Simoen from the CTO office at CEA-Leti in Grenoble, the electronic and information subsidiary of France’s nuclear and renewable energy commission. He will present his view of the evolution of hardware sensing capabilities in his talk ‘The convergence of photonics and electronics: an opportunity for machine vision’. Photonic technologies already underpin and enable machine vision applications, playing a significant role in components such as sensors, cameras, fiber optics, displays, and lighting. However, a general convergence is underway between electronics and photonics which is accelerating research and development efforts.
For more details and registration please visit www.european-forum-emva.org.
About EMVA:
Founded in May 2003 in Barcelona, the European Machine Vision Association currently has about 120+ members representing more than 20 nations. Its aim is to promote the development and use of machine vision technology and to support the interests of its members – machine vision companies, research institutions and national machine vision associations. The main fields of work of EMVA are: standardization, statistics, the annual EMVA Business Conference and other networking events, European research funding, public relations and marketing. To find out more visit the web site www.emva.org.
Werner Feith received his education from TU München as a solid state physicist. After some time with industrial computer industry he founded Sensor to Image GmbH, which started as a frame grabber company, but was soon tuned to be an FPGA IP company supporting digital camera interfaces defined by Gen<I>cam standard. Sensor to Image became and is the world leader in industrial camera interface IP supporting GigEVision, USB3-Vision and CoaXPress. After selling Sensor to Image in 2017 Werner Feith was attracted by the open position as EMVA Standards Manager to continue his career in the industry and share his vast experience in standardization.
Objects made from transparent materials play crucial roles in humans’ everyday life. They are employed, e.g., as windshields, glasses or as plastic lenses to guide laser beams in an eye surgery. Especially when considering the latter example, it is obvious, that such objects must meet high quality requirements. Hence, a visual inspection for material defects like enclosed air bubbles or surface scratches is inevitable. Human visual inspection is a fatiguing task which is not very robust and prone to subjective results or even to unrevealed defects. Automated visual inspection systems represent a reliable alternative to manual inspection. However, the automated inspection of complex-shaped transparent objects like lenses, windshields etc. still represents a challenging task with several open research questions.
Dr. Bernd Liepert is the President of euRobotics aisbl, the international non-profit association for all stakeholders in European robotics, which was founded in September 2012 and has become the private side of SPARC, the European Public-Private Partnership in Robotics in 2013. As president of these associations, Dr. Liepert has been leading the European robotics community and representing it at high political levels since 2008, where he became President of EUROP, the European Robotics Technology Platform.
In the afternoon session of the first conference day, Prof. Dr. Christian Wolf, Associate Professor at INSA, Université de Lyon and LIRIS, CNRS highlights reasoning as a key component of human intelligence in his speech “Learning High-Level Reasoning in and from Images”.
Barcelona/Suzhou (China), 08 April, 2019. During the meeting of the GenICam Standard Group end of March in Suzhou/China the Chair and Vice-Chairs were elected for another regular three year period. The previous incumbents were unanimously re-elected. Dr. Fritz Dierks (Basler) remains Chairman of the GenICam Standard Group and is assisted by the three Vice-Chairmen Rupert Stelz (STEMMER IMAGING), Stéphane Maurice (Matrox Imaging) and Christoph Zierl (MVTec Software).
Barcelona/Brussels, 16 November, 2018. The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is pleased to announce that Dr.-Ing. Dirk Berndt in his role as member of the EMVA Board of Directors has been elected in the Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders (BoS).
