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Amazon’s New AI Selfie Machine Is The Privacy Parable For Our Time

Amazon’s New AI Selfie Machine Is The Privacy Parable For Our Time

The Pact. You’re probably part of at least one. Here’s how it works: You use a digital product. The way you use that app and gadget gives the company that built it data about your behavior. Maybe you see a more specific ad in…

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Basler Gets into MIPI/CSI-2 Technology

Basler Gets into MIPI/CSI-2 Technology

Basler MIPI CSI-2 This fall, the camera manufacturer Basler will offer an extension module that lets users operate its dart camera modules via the MIPI/CSI-2 camera interfaces of important embedded processing platforms (CSI-2: Camera Serial Interface 2). In the CSI interface that is popular…

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border surveillance

Improvements in Machine Vision Enhance Border Surveillance

Tactical infrastructure such as fencing, roads, and lighting is critical to securing a nation’s border. But it alone is not enough to prevent the unlawful movement of people and contraband into a country. “Technology is the primary driver of all land, maritime, and air…

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Corning and PrecisionHawk partnership enables hyperspectral imaging on drones

Corning and PrecisionHawk Partner To Offer Hyperspectral Imaging on Drones

PrecisionHawk and Corning Incorporated have announced a collaboration in which Corning Incorporated’s microHSI 410-SHARK hyperspectral camera will be made available as a sensor option for PrecisionHawk’s platform for collection and analysis of drone data. The microHSI 410-SHARK camera is designed for the 400-1000 nm…

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Lattice Semiconductor Releases New Embedded Vision Development Kit Targeted for Mobile-Influenced Applications at the Edge

Lattice Semiconductor Releases New Embedded Vision Development Kit Targeted for Mobile-Influenced Applications

PORTLAND, Ore.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC), the leading provider of customizable smart connectivity solutions, today announced the availability of its Embedded Vision Development Kit, the first-of-a-kind development kit optimized for mobile-influenced system designs that require flexible, low cost, and low…

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First drone from DJI designed for professional applications to be shown at XPONENTIAL 2017

First Drone from DJI Designed for Professional Applications

DJI’s first drone series built specifically for professional applications—the Matrice 200 series—will be on display at XPONENTIAL 2017. The M200 drones is the first-ever dual mount to fly two cameras at the same time, according to the company, and is also DJI’s first upward-facing…

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New from FRAMOS: Fujinon’s Space-Saving, Wide-Angle Lens for Machine Vision

Fujinon’s Space-Saving, Wide-Angle Lens for Machine Vision

The new HF6XA-5M wide-angle lens from Fujinon is the latest addition to the HF-XA Machine Vision lens series. Applications requiring a short working distance and wide angle of view will particularly benefit from the MOD of 100 mm. The lens, available from vision specialists…

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Microscan at Automate 2017: Miniaturization of machine vision and auto ID technology

Miniaturization of Machine Vision and Auto ID Technology

At Automate 2017 , I had the pleasure of meeting with Scott Summerville, President of Microscan . During our conversation on the show floor, we discussed a number of topics, including the trend of miniaturizing imaging products for both machine vision and automatic identification…

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Pharmacode Vision Sensor

EVT Eye Vistion Introduces Pharmacode Vision Sensor

Photonics.com EVT Eye Vision Technology GmbH Request Info KARLSRUHE, Germany, April 19, 2017 — The EyeSens PharmaCode Reader (PCR) from EVT Eye Vision Technology GmbH is a vision sensor that reads pharmarcode, the seven-digit numerical code for unambiguous identification of pharmaceutical specialties and other…

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Cognex Co. (CGNX) Downgraded by Zacks Investment Research to Hold

Cognex Co. (CGNX) Downgraded by Zacks Investment Research to Hold

Cognex Co. (NASDAQ:CGNX) was downgraded by Zacks Investment Research from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research report issued to clients and investors on Wednesday. According to Zacks, “Cognex Corp. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets machine vision systems that are used…

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