Stemmer Imaging

Panoramic camera head designed for automated data collection in traffic applications

Vision, the leading machine vision trade fair, for will open its doors for the 27th time in just two months. Over 400 exhibitors from 28 countries are expected in Stuttgart this November. Among this year's exhibitors will be market leaders such as Allied Vision, Basler and Stemmer Imaging, all of whom are regular exhibitors. But new companies such as ifm electronic and Bosch Healthcare will also be contributing to the diversity of the trade fair.

The Automated Imaging Association (AIA), the vision and imaging industry’s trade association, has released the new USB3 vision camera interface standard and it is now available for free download on the AIA website. This easy-to-use standard is based on the prevalent USB 3.0 consumer hardware already in use. The AIA says vision component manufacturers have embraced the standard and are expected to widely adopt it; many components are already selling today. Based on the USB 3.0 interface (SuperSpeed USB), USB

Microbus and Stemmer Imaging have established a new two-way distribution agreement for Europe which will see the companies combine their core strengths to provide their OEM and system integrator customers with a greater product offering.

Stemmer Imaging, JAI distributor in several European countries, has announced the new JAI AD-081GE dual CCD camera.

A new camera range from Stemmer Imaging uses a sensor, based on solar cell technology, to allow imaging from scenes which simultaneously contain both very light and very dark areas. The company says this makes them ideally suited to use in environments with a very high dynamic range, or where there are strong and unpredictable brightness fluctuations. The new FX4 HDR (High Dynamic Range) sensor produces a logarithmic signal output. This enables fine differences in brightness to be imaged even in very bright

Stemmer Imaging is launching a sophisticated vehicle classification system that allows both the class of the vehicle, such as motorcycle, car, taxi, light van, bus or truck, to be identified as well as the vehicle make, model and colour and can be linked with ANPR systems. It utilises the Manto pattern recognition tool, which is part of the company's Common Vision Blox hardware-independent machine vision toolkit. Potential applications for the systems include congestion charge monitoring and other road toll

Stemmer Imaging has announced the VTR3, a compact, integrated enclosure for traffic monitoring applications, complete with camera, lens and high brightness infrared or white LED lighting technology. The unit's high-brightness strobed LED illumination source from Gardasoft Vision is designed for ANPR applications such as car park entry/exit or average speed installations spanning many lanes. The lights can strobe in sync with a free running camera, or they can accept an external trigger signal to synchronise