Researchers have developed a metasurface attachment that can turn just about any camera or imaging system, even off-the-shelf systems, into polarization cameras. The attachment uses a metasurface of ...

Expanding on its TwinCAT Vision software capabilities, Beckhoff Automation has added industrial cameras, lenses and lighting to bring image processing directly into the machine control environment.

Machine vision, speaking generally, is an electro optical system (camera) connected to a processing unit such as a computer for image processing and to control a system. It is a system or computer ...

Working on a machine vision project requires understanding each part of the system, including light sources, frame grabbers, and computers. Here is a primer on two essential machine-vision terms.