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from UKIVA, EMVA and VDMA Miniature cameras
Matthew Dale reports on Ams’s plans for manufacturing $1 micro-cameras
Profile
Greg Blackman charts the meteoric rise of Chinese firm Hikvision, which has turned its sights on industrial vision
Bio-inspired imaging Life sciences
Greg Blackman explores the latest advances made in scientific CMOS sensors
Image compression
Martin Schwarzbauer at PCO and Bernd Jähne at HCI, Heidelberg University discuss the need for quasi lossless image data compression
Hyperspectral imaging
Andrew Williams on the uses and current state of hyperspectral imaging
UK vision
Denis Bulgin speaks to Mark Williamson and David Hearn, who both started their own vision companies in the UK 20 years ago
Show: SPIE Photonics West 2018
A preview of what imaging technology will be on display at the US photonics trade fair in January Lens standard
An open lens-camera communication standard would greatly benefit machine vision, Professor Dr Bernd Jähne at HCI, Heidelberg University argues
Product focus: lenses
Rounding up the latest lens technology for machine vision
Products
The latest vision equipment Suppliers’ directory
Find the suppliers you need
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December 2017/January 2018 • Imaging and Machine Vision Europe 3 28 24 18 22 14
Matthew Dale investigates a new class of image sensor based on the principles of biological sight
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10 Leader Greg Blackman Nature knows best B
iology has long been a source of inspiration for scientists – artificial intelligence is a modern example that bases its neural networks on
how animal brains work. Building silicon models of biological vision has led to a new breed of image sensors that only record when something changes in the scene, rather than capturing everything with each frame as is the case with standard sensors. Tis makes these bio-inspired sensors much more efficient, and the technology is now reaching a point where it is coming out of the laboratory and being made into commercial products, as Matthew Dale finds in his article on page 14. From bio-inspired imaging to examining living
tissue through microscopes, the article on page 18 explores the new backside illuminated scientific CMOS technology for demanding cell studies. Tied to this, on page 22, Martin Schwarzbauer at PCO describes compression technology to turn 16-bit images to 8-bit or less. Te study resonates particularly with life science imaging and scientific CMOS sensors. Tere are also articles on hyperspectral imaging
(page 24), a profile of Chinese giant Hikvision (page 12) and, on page 32, Professor Dr Bernd Jähne argues the merits of creating a lens-camera communication standard. Tis issue will also be at SPIE Photonics West in January so if you will be travelling to the US show in the New Year, please stop by our booth 2133.
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