Technical tips
Our technical tips dig deeper and explain machine vision technology down to the last detail.
Automation and machine vision move closer together
Automation technology and machine vision are increasingly merging. Our press agent Peter Stiefenhöfer discussed this exciting development with Peter Keppler, Director of Corporate Sales at STEMMER IMAGING.
Embedded Vision: Can Embedded Vision revolutionise imaging and machine vision?
Embedded Vision has been THE trend topic in the industry for some time now. Rarely in the past has a vision technology been ascribed so much change potential. A large number of exciting possible uses for Embedded Vision systems already exist in virtually all branches of industry and daily life. But will this technology really lead to a complete upheaval in machine vision?
GigE Vision and GenICam
Gigabit-Ethernet for Machine Vision or, in short, GigE Vision: According to many experts, the new interface standard and the closely associated generic software interface GenICam (Generic Interface for Cameras) will give new impetus to the industrial image processing sector in the near future: The image processing industry finds itself at a crucial technological watershed!
Hyperspectral imaging creates new possibilities
Hyperspectral imaging provides its users with a high-performance possibility to determine differences in the chemical composition of test objects. This technology opens up interesting applications in areas such as recycling or food production.
Hyperspectral imaging: Detecting food contamination – a new approach
Inspection is a critical component of HACCP programs in the food industry. Hyperspectral imaging now provides a powerful complementary approach for the machine vision engineer. Its ability to identify differences in the chemical composition of organic materials opens up major new possibilities for detecting impurities in food products. Most importantly, systems are now available that operate in real time, allowing them to be used on high speed production lines.
Hyperspectral imaging: the evolution of machine vision
Chemical Colour Imaging (CCI) makes complex hyperspectral data on a molecular level usable for machine vision. Hyperspectral imaging systems from STEMMER IMAGING based on a generic, intuitive configurable data processing platform developed by Perception Park make the scientific methods of hyperspectral analysis accessible for everyone and open up new application areas.
Illumination techniques
When implementing an image processing solution, the selection of suitable illumination is a crucial element in determining the quality of the captured images and can have a huge effect on the subsequent evaluation of the image. Despite this, choosing the best light source for an application is often among the most fraught tasks in image processing and is quite often neglected - to the detriment of the overall system.
Image processing on the graphics card
There are many different ways of increasing image processing speed. In the latest version of Common Vision Blox, STEMMER IMAGING has adopted a new method: offloading parts of the processing to the PC`s graphics card, which can boost the speed of some functions by up to a factor of 10.
LEIA explains: What is the effect of flat field correction?
The invitation to our Machine Vision Technology Forum included the following quiz question. Let us give you the answer now!
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