CONTENTS & LEADER IMAGING & MACHINE VISION EUROPE
Leader Greg Blackman
New look for 2020
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LMI gains FocalSpec tech l down 21 per cent l AI spin-off l
agriculture founded Shortwave infrared
Cognex Framos establishes Hyperspectral centre for 10
Matthew Dale on quantum dot sensors that look set to bring down the cost of SWIR vision
High-speed imaging
Greg Blackman explores the cameras used to capture extremely fast events
Deep learning Artificial intelligence Healthcare 18
Pierre Gutierrez at Scortex writes about deploying deep learning for quality inspection in factories
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Takashi Someda at Hacarus on the advantages of sparse modelling AI tools
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Keely Portway finds out how vision technology is playing a role in medical diagnosis
14 4 FPGAs
Greg Blackman on how IP cores for FPGAs can reduce camera time-to-market
3D vision 28
Konstantin Schauwecker of Nerian Vision describes the firm’s stereo vision sensor for fast depth perception using FPGAs
SPIE Photonics West
A round-up of imaging equipment on display at the conference in San Francisco early next year
Tech focus: GigE Vision
Bob McCurrach at AIA updates on developments in GigE Vision
Products Find the suppliers you need 34
Latest products from around the world Suppliers’ directory
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elcome to the new-look Imaging and Machine Vision Europe, a fresh
design as we move into 2020. In keeping with our new layout, we are inviting readers to get in touch to help improve our coverage, firstly through our reader survey, which we’ve been running during the latter part of 2019 but for which we’re still looking for participants. If you can spare 5 to 10 minutes, and possibly a short follow- up phone call, please complete the survey:
www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ IMVE2019survey. We’re also looking for fresh voices
to give their analysis and opinion on a range of topics relevant to machine vision. On page 18 Pierre Gutierrez of Scortex writes about the challenges of deploying artificial intelligence on the factory floor, something that many firms are now grappling with or might be in the near future. Gutierrez is one of a number of experts we have commissioned to write about their field and how it relates to industrial imaging. Articles on shortwave infrared
sensors based on quantum dots (page 10), high-speed imaging (page 14), healthcare (page 22), and IP cores for FPGAs (page 26) are also covered in this issue. We always welcome ideas for future
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articles – this might be a project deploying an inspection system or a challenge that you’ve overcome that could be beneficial to the wider machine vision community – so please get in touch (
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