NEWS In brief
Cognex can thank higher revenue from consumer electronics and e-commerce in the latter half of last year for a 12 per cent rise in growth compared to 2019. The company’s revenue was $811m for 2020, with 37 per cent higher revenue in the third quarter compared to the same period in 2019, and a 32 per cent increase in the fourth quarter. Dr Robert Shillman, founder and chairman of Cognex, said: ‘We set a new record for both Q4 and annual revenue despite significant economic disruption and weakness in the automotive industry.’ Cognex predicts its revenue in Q1-21 will be between $225m and $245m.
Increased demand for elevated skin temperature solutions, due to the pandemic, was the prime driver for Flir’s 2 per cent rise in revenue ($1.9bn) year-on- year for 2020. The company’s industrial technologies unit made $1.16bn, an increase of 5.9 per cent compared to the prior year.
Fresh look at AI vision from Teledyne e2v and Yumain
Teledyne e2v and Yumain aim to make AI technology more accessible by addressing challenges associated with it, such as setting it up, optimising it, and making it secure and able to run with low power consumption. Yumain’s products include a video server
for surveillance, an edge vision sensor, an event-based camera and a low-power sensor that detects changes in a scene. Marc Benoit, managing director of
Yumain, said: ‘Edge AI, as we know it today, consists of an optimisation of machine learning models and computation inherited from the cloud. We have 10 years of experience in this field, which has shown
UKIVA exhibition set to be in-person this year Another part of the gradual
By Neil Sandhu, UKIVA chairman
As the UK starts to emerge from lockdown, there are signs that activity in the UK vision industry is also beginning to pick up speed. Restrictions on travel during lockdown have continued to limit face-to-face meetings, but UKIVA members have been receiving more requests to see and trial software and other vision solutions while on-site demonstrations are not possible. Typically, the requirement is to supply solutions for a 30 to 60-day trial to prove a concept.
transition out of lockdown will be the reopening of UK business events, including conferences and trade shows. While vision users can keep in contact with suppliers via video conferencing, there has been no appropriate substitute for an environment where people can network with industry experts and their peers, as well as seeing the latest products in action. As part of the reopening
process, the UK Government plans to run pilot events (such as conferences) from April, which is really good news. In line with the objective of the safe return of live events by the summer, the 2021 UKIVA Machine Vision Conference and Exhibition (MVC) is now scheduled to take place at the
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us that alternative implementations of AI could be more suitable and scalable for the constraints of factory and production lines. Teledyne e2v’s image sensor design and production expertise are paramount to bringing these novel ideas to reality. Tis initiative is a key milestone for us and one that emphasises our potential to investors.’ Vincent Hector, vice president of market
development at Teledyne e2v, said: ‘Our image sensor capability coupled with their tailored AI expertise will allow us to develop AI-based vision solutions which will be easily accessible for industrial customers and bring real benefits to their applications.’
Marshall Arena, Milton Keynes, UK on 15 July. MVC 2021 will feature keynote speakers and an impressive technical seminar programme covering eight themes, supported by an exhibition of the latest vision technology. There is already great
interest. Many companies unable to participate in the live version of MVC 2020 because of its postponement, decided to carry their bookings forward to 2021, instead of taking a refund. This means preparation for MVC 2021 is well under way. UKIVA is also making plans
for an enhanced virtual event should the need arise. Anyone interested in attending MVC 2021 can register interest at: www.
machinevisionconference.co.uk. The most popular technical
themes at the last two MVCs have been deep learning and embedded vision. Throughout the pandemic, these technologies have continued their rapid development, which has generated a lot of interest in camera-based implementations of deep learning. The deployment of neural
networks directly on an appropriate camera platform, without the need for any extra equipment, not only simplifies system implementation, but also provides the flexibility to satisfy a wide variety of applications in many different industries. A number of suppliers now offer this tailored app approach, which has also made it easier to develop some of the proof-of-concept trial solutions discussed above.
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