EMVA announces Young Professional Award 2017
The European Machine Vision Association EMVA is once again presenting the Young Professional Award - for the first time with prize money.
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The European Machine Vision Association EMVA is once again presenting the Young Professional Award - for the first time with prize money.
Smooth communication between the components of an embedded vision system and this system with the automation is a prerequisite for real-time data transmission. This calls for the development of standards.
The 'fourth revolution' in industry promotes and demands visionary perspectives: Intelligent sensors record a wide range of data and are more than just simple switches for controlling industrial production processes.
Assistance systems and cameras have long been supporting people in industrial visual inspection and quality assurance as an 'artificial eye'. However, modern machines should not only image, but also understand what they see.
The USB 3.0 interface is now considered mature and is spreading at high speed. A plea for a change in the field of industrial image processing.
Basler has launched the 'Imaginghub', an online portal dedicated to the topic of embedded vision. Sebastian von Holdt, Product Manager at Basler, explains what it is all about.

Agreement between Volkswagen and Mobileye
Volkswagen and Mobileye are planning a new navigation standard for autonomous driving from 2018. Future Volkswagen models will use Mobileye's camera-based map and localization technology 'Road Experience Management'.

An app developed by Fraunhofer researchers allows users to look directly inside objects and displays their ingredients. This allows apples, for example, to be examined for pesticide residues.

At the Carolo Cup, student teams competed against each other with their self-developed and autonomously driving model vehicles. However, it wasn't just speed that counted.
Machine vision technology is becoming increasingly important on the road to Industry 4.0: it provides the data required for process optimization, increased efficiency, preventive maintenance and human-robot collaboration.