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NEWSLETTER
FEBRUARY 2018

Dear Reader,

Welcome to the EMVA newsletter! Each month it provides hands-on information on machine vision in Europe and the world. Find out about the latest projects of the EMVA, innovative products, what’s going on in the machine vision industry and interesting events.

Kind regards,
Thomas Lübkemeier
EMVA General Secretary

EMVA News

EMVA Business Conference 2018
EMVA Young Professional Award 2018

Prestigious industry award rewards outstanding work with prize money, presentation at EMVA Conference in Dubrovnik and free entry at European Machine Vision Forum 2018.

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 computer vision.

It is the goal of the European Machine Vision Association to further support innovation in our industry, to contribute to the important aspect of dedicated machine vision education and to provide a bridge between research and industry. In this context, with the call for applications for the Young Professional Award 2018 the EMVA would like to specifically encourage students and young scientists from European institutions 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 machine vision industry.

Please download the Call for Applications

Find all conference details and registration at www.business-conference-emva.org

Member News

EMVA welcomes new member
NOTAVIS

With a broad spectrum, which includes all components necessary for image processing, the NOTAVIS GmbH addresses customers with its own image processing department, like e.g. large engineering companies (OEMs), the manufacturing industry (automotive and supplier industry, automation and system suppliers) and integrators. The portfolio includes industrial cameras, image processing software, IPC and other components. Read more ›

Advertising

“Women in Engineering” now in Austria

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is one of the world’s largest organizations dedicated to the advancement of technologies for the benefit of humanity. With Women in Engineering (WIE), the IEEE has a professional organization dedicated to advancing female engineers and inspiring girls around the world to pursue a career in engineering.
In Austria, IEEE Women in Engineering currently has 20 members. Co-founders of the Austria Section are the AIT staff members Nicole Brosch, Junior Scientist at the Center for Vision, Automation & Control and Johanna Schmidt, Scientist at the Center for Mobility Systems. Together with Katharina Krösl, member of the VRVis Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization and PhD student at the Institute for Computer Graphics and Algorithms of the Vienna University of Technology, the scientists have big plans for the establishment of the network: In addition to a Women-in-Engineering-Award for papers, a regular round table, lectures and internships will be organized. It is currently being considered that the project should be extended to Germany and Switzerland, so that female students and young female researchers can gain practical experience in other countries as well.

Case Study

LMI TECHNOLOGIES
Windshield Insertion System

Manual insertion of glass into car bodies is labour intensive and
imprecise, with the opportunity for body damage and glass breakage leading to significant safety risks to assembly operators. Alternatively, robotic insertion methods are complicated because the car body location is not precise, and therefore requires vision guidance to transform robot end effectors to compensate for body location variation and to optimize the position of the glass. Read more ›

Recent case studies

ACTIVE SILICON
State-of-the-art new software delivers enhanced multi-camera control

Active Silicon has announced the launch of ActiveCapture – its latest front-end software for FireBird frame grabbers. The software application provides optimized image acquisition and display by allowing the user to access and control all cameras and frame grabbers in a clear and intuitive manner. ActiveCapture is a GenICam GenTL program that can be used with cameras supporting GenICam, such as CoaXPress, and Camera Link cameras using CLProtocol. It is also designed for use with non-GenICam Camera Link cameras. Full specifications of ActiveCapture are available online.
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CHROMASENS introduces world’s first 2.5μm Stereo Line Scan Color Camera

In a strategic move aimed at broadening its leadership position in the 3D machine vision market, Chromasens, a member of the Lakesight Technologies group, has expanded its highly successful 3DPIXA family with the introduction of the world’s first 3D stereo line-scan color camera to feature an optical resolution of 2.5 μm/pixel, an innovation that enables the capture of extremely detail-rich signals that up to now could only be achieved through complex multi-camera solutions. A breakthrough in mechanical design, the Chromasens 3DPIXA Dual HR 2 μm camera sets a new standard in the drive for ever-increasing higher resolution and speed. Read more ›

MIKROTRON
and Phrontier boost CoaXPress transmission distance up to 50 miles with new Camera/Extender package

Addressing the demands of long-distance CoaXPress (CXP) imaging applications, Mikrotron GmbH, a member of the Lakesight Technologies group, and Phrontier announced that their technology partnership has resulted in a fully compatible camera and extender package that increases CXP transmission distance over fiber up to 80 kilometers (50 miles), while maintaining low jitter, high resolution video streaming with a downlink of up to 4x 6.25Gbps and uplink at 20.83Mbps.
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