We salute hackers who make technology useful for people in emerging markets. Leigh Johnson joined that select group when she accepted the challenge to build portable machine vision units that work ...

Machine vision refers to a computer being able to see. Often, the computers use different cameras for video, Analog-to-Digital Conversion), and DSP (Digital Signal Processing) to see. After this, the ...

Although machine vision may seem like a new concept, we can trace its origins to the 1960s. Back then, machine vision existed as raw image files. A paradigm shift happened with the advent of digital ...

Machine vision systems are a staple in production lines for barcode reading, quality control and inventory management. And, as the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) continues to expand its reach, ...

We are living in an age of turbocharged commerce and next-level consumer expectations. Customers will not hesitate to return a product that has a scratch or a food item past its expiration date.

Advances in additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, have generated increasingly powerful capabilities for producing geometrically complex structures that could not be made using ...

The implementation of machine vision in finance is proving to be beneficial not only to businesses but also to consumers in general. Although it seemed far-fetched five years ago, financial ...

You’ll often see inventory-management experts comparing machine vision and radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies to each other when helping people determine which one would work best for ...

How deep learning enhances rule-based machine vision in quality and process control inspection applications. How edge learning compares to deep learning in machine-vision applications. Which ...

Next-generation steering technologies for lidar are making machine vision cheaper and more portable. Janelle Shane describes how these advances could apply to autonomous vehicles Edge case: The real ...