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Leader Greg Blackman


Up in the cloud A News


Amazon’s new vision service for manufacturing l £6.3m l


imaging performance l


to build next-gen IR sensors Nasa Perseverance


Silicon photonics lidar raises 3D Lynred and NIT


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Greg Blackman speaks to Guy Meynants and Paul Jerram about the history of the image sensors onboard the Mars rover


Agriculture Open source imaging 16


Keely Portway on how robotics and imaging are finding their way onto farms


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Matthew Dale finds that open source software is now a credible option for industrial vision


4 Active Silicon bought for Embedded vision


Greg Blackman reports on what panellists said about vision processing at the edge during the Embedded World show


Embedded standards 24


Khronos’Neil Trevett and EMVA’s Chris Yates say the time is right to investigate embedded vision software standards


Tech focus: Coaxpress


Chris Beynon, technical chair of the Coaxpress committee, updates on the Coaxpress standard


Products


The latest vision equipment Suppliers’ directory


Find the suppliers you need 30 34 26 22


mazon’s recent announcement of a vision service for manufacturing brings some


serious investment clout to the field of machine vision, as well as signifying just what a large potential market there is for visual inspection and automation in factories. Lookout for Vision is a cloud service that aims to make AI more accessible to manufacturers, where customers pay by the hour to train a neural network with sample images to detect product defects or anomalies. Training AI models on edge


computing devices was one of the main themes during a panel discussion on embedded vision, held during the Embedded World digital trade fair – Amazon Web Services’ Austin Ashe was one of the panellists. It seems everyone wants to add AI capabilities to make sense of vision data, and one of the best ways of doing this is to deploy a neural network on specialised edge computing devices (Ashe spoke a little about what can be done in the cloud and what is best done on the edge). A report of the discussion can be found on page 22, while more information about Amazon Lookout for Vision is in the news section starting on page 4. Sticking with embedded computing,


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the Khronos Group and the EMVA have set up a standards initiative to explore interest in creating open APIs for embedded vision. On page 24, Khronos’ Neil Trevett and EMVA’s Chris Yates explain the work. With large companies like Google and Arm involved, this is further evidence of the market potential for vision-based devices, all of which is sure to impact vision used in factory automation.


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