The EMVA will organize the sixth European Machine Vision Forum on October 12th and 13th in Wageningen, the Netherlands, bringing together machine vision professionals from academia and industry for mutual exchange in a unique setting. Wageningen University & Research (WUR) is this year’s on-site host.

This year’s focal topic is ‘Real-world machine vision challenges – coping with variability and uncontrolled environments’.

“The European Machine Vision Forum offers a very special platform for exchange between representatives of industry and research. Under this year’s focal topic, practical challenges in the implementation of machine vision solutions will be addressed. These include, among others, possible disturbances during image acquisition as well as variabilities in the inspection task or in the sensor technology. The speeches and poster papers will present possible solutions to these challenges,” the organizational director of the forum, Professor Michael Heizmann, explains.

Three keynote lectures will also address the focus topic. Prof. Christophe Cudel from the Université Haute-Alsace in Mulhouse (France) will report on the use of light field cameras in visual navigation. The talk by Prof. Alfred M. Bruckstein of Technion in Haifa (Israel) will focus on the transfer of human perceptual patterns when viewing moving images to image processing systems. Last but not least, Dr. Albert J. P. Theuwissen of Harvest Imaging in Bree (Belgium) will discuss opportunities for integrating computational units into modern CMOS image sensors.

As a special program highlight, the section ‘Agro Food Robotics’ of Wageningen University & Research invites to a campus tour, where current research projects and applications, not limited to agricultural technology, can be experienced directly. Inspiring pitches and demos by PureSpectra and OnePlanet, amongst others, give examples of the Dutch machine vision ecosystem.

The European Machine Vision Forum is an annual event of the European Machine Vision Association – EMVA. The aim is to foster interaction between the machine vision industry and academic research to learn from each other, discuss the newest research results as well as challenges from applications, learn about emerging application fields, and discuss research cooperation between industry and academic institutes. The overall aim is to accelerate innovation by translating new research results faster into practice. The forum is directed to scientists, development engineers, software and hardware engineers, and programmers both from research and industry.

Founded in 2003, the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) is a non-for-profit and non-commercial association representing the Machine Vision industry in Europe that is open to all types of organizations having a stake in machine vision, computer vision, embedded vision, or imaging technologies: manufacturers, system and machine builders, integrators, distributors, consultancies, research organizations, and academia. The EMVA hosts four international vision standards, and all members – as the 100% owners of the association – benefit from the dedicated networking, standardization, and cooperation activities of the EMVA.