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EMVA Young Professional Award 2022 – Call for Application
It is the goal of the European Machine Vision Association to support further innovation in our industry, to contribute to the important aspect of dedicated machine vision education, and to provide a bridge between research and industry. The EMVA Young Professional Award is an annual award endowed with 1500 Euros to honor the outstanding and innovative work of a student or a young professional in the field of machine vision or image processing. Applicants for the EMVA Young Professional Award are hereby invited to submit their work. Among all papers the EMVA Board of Directors, representing the European Machine Vision Industry, will select the winner of the award. The criteria…
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New Release 4.0 of EMVA 1288 Standard for Camera Characterization in Effect
The EMVA today announced that the new release 4.0 of the EMVA 1288 Standard for objective characterization of industrial cameras, which is successfully used worldwide, has become effective. The release takes into account the rapid development of camera and image sensor technology. The documents of the standard are published here. The EMVA 1288 standard, hosted by EMVA, is part of the global G3 standardization initiative in which the five leading machine vision organizations A3, CMVU, EMVA, JIIA, and VDMA cooperate. Until the previous Release 3.1 dated back December 2016, the application of the EMVA 1288 standard with a simple linear model was limited to cameras with a linear response and…
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Review: EMVA Business Conference Special Edition 2021
With a participation of 135 participants from 23 nations the 19th EMVA Business Conference Special Edition 2021 took place online last week. A total of 20 speeches, two fireside chats and two CEO/Management panel discussions covered virtually all current actual economic and technical topics that the machine vision world currently deals with. During the individual B2B sessions about 90 virtual bilateral video meetings were arranged between conference attendees before and after the conference program in the afternoons. Positive Feedback to Online Format In their feedback almost 95 percent of participants appreciated the EMVA’s decision to offer the conference in online format instead of cancel it. Here’s a few of the…
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EMVA General Assembly Elects New Board of Directors
The General Assembly of the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA), due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions taking place in an online format June 1st, 2021, has elected the new EMVA Board of Directors. For the upcoming three-year term, the new board consists of nine members, namely Arnaud Destruels, Sony Europe B.V (Image Sensing Solutions) Arndt Bake, Basler Prof. Dr. Bernd Jähne, Heidelberg Collaboratory for Image Processing of Heidelberg University Dr. Chris Yates, Vision Ventures Dr. Christoph Garbe, HD Vision Systems Dr. Dirk Berndt, Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation IFF Dr. Kai-Udo Modrich, ZEISS Inline Inspection & Metrology Marco Diani, iMAGE S Dr. Ronald Mueller, Vision Markets The new…
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New Release 4.0 of EMVA 1288 Standard for Camera Characterization
The EMVA Standard 1288 for objective characterization of industrial cameras, which is successfully used worldwide, has a successor in the new Release 4.0, which now takes into account the rapid development of camera and image sensor technology. The release candidate was published on March 16 and the detailed standard texts can be viewed here. Until the previous Release 3.1 dated back December 2016, the application of the EMVA 1288 standard with a simple linear model was limited to cameras with a linear response and without any pre-processing. While this model is being continued with some improvements in the ’Release 4.0 Linear’, a new module ‘Release 4.0 General’ has been added…
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Neues Release 4.0 des EMVA 1288 Standard zur Kameracharakterisierung
Der weltweit erfolgreich genutzte EMVA Standard 1288 zur objektiven Charakterisierung von industriellen Kameras hat durch das neue Release 4.0 einen Nachfolger, welcher der rasanten Entwicklung der Kamera- und Bildsensor-technologie Rechnung trägt. Am 16. März wurde der Release-Kandidat publiziert. Die Details des neuen Release 4.0 können hier eingesehen werden. Bis zum Release 3.1 vom Dezember 2016 war die Anwendung des EMVA Standards 1288 mit einem einfachen linearen Modell auf Kameras mit einer linearen Kennlinie und ohne Vorverarbeitung, die das zeitliche Rauschen modifiziert, beschränkt. Dieses Modell wird auch im „Release 4.0 Linear“ mit einigen Verbesserungen fortgeführt. Neu hinzu kommt jetzt das Modul „Release 4.0 General“. Mit ihm ist die Charakterisierung einer nichtlinearen…
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EMVA and Khronos Collaborate to Gather Requirements for Embedded Camera and Sensor API Standard
Today, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA), the leading European industry association dedicated to vision technology, and The Khronos® Group, an open consortium creating graphics and compute interoperability standards, jointly announce the formation of an Embedded Camera API Exploratory Group, open to all at no cost, to explore industry interest in the creation of open royalty-free API standards for controlling embedded cameras and sensors. All participants will be able to discuss use cases and requirements for new interoperability standards to accelerate market growth and reduce development costs in embedded markets using vision and sensor processing and associated acceleration. If the Exploratory Group reaches significant consensus then EMVA and Khronos will…
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EMVA und Khronos kooperieren bei der Erarbeitung von Anforderungen für einen Embedded-Kamera und -Sensor API-Standard
Die European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) als führender europäischer Industrieverband für Bildverarbeitungstechnologie und The Khronos® Group, ein offenes Konsortium, das Standards für die Interoperabilität von Grafik- und Computertechnologien entwickelt, gaben heute die gemeinsame Gründung einer Embedded Camera API Exploratory Group bekannt. Die Sondierungsgruppe steht allen Interessierten offen, um das Interesse der Industrie an der Schaffung offener, lizenzfreier API-Standards für die Steuerung von Embedded-Kameras und -Sensoren auszuloten. Die Teilnahme an der Sondierungsgruppe bietet die Möglichkeit, Anwendungsfälle und Anforderungen für neue Interoperabilitätsstandards zu diskutieren und damit zukünftig Entwicklungskosten und begleitenden Aufwand bei der Bildverarbeitung und Sensorauswertung im Embedded-Sektor zu reduzieren. Sollte in der Sondierungsgruppe ein ausreichender Konsens entstehen, werden EMVA und Khronos…
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EMVA and EPIC sign Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen the Photonics and Machine Vision industries
The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) and the European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC) signed a collaboration agreement on the last week of November 2020, bringing together members and knowledge to better serve and strengthen the Photonics and Machine Vision industries. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signature was publicly announced at the EPIC Online Technology Meeting on 3D Sensing on 23 November 2020. The collaboration between EMVA and EPIC is focused on cooperative activities involving continued industry endorsement of standards and supporting the development of an efficient and sustainable industry. Driving the standards in machine vision technology The partnership will encourage cooperation between the members, including participation at events, collaboration on…
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EMVA Covid-19 Survey 2020
During April and June 2020, the EMVA conducted a bipartite survey on the effects of the Covid-19 crisis for the machine vision industry. A standardized questionnaire was distributed by email to a wide range of industry participants, both EMVA member companies and from the wider industry. The results were complemented and verified by a series of telephone interviews with senior managers and executives from selected companies representing as wide a cross section of the industry as possible. The majority of participants expect a U-shaped economic development during and after the crisis. On average the survey participants anticipate the machine vision industry to contract by 17% in 2020. Customer industries related…
