Contents

COVER STORY
High Tech Coupled with Finesse
Calibrated 3D Area Sensor for Industrial Image Processing - A Wealth of Possibilities
Meike Hummerich, Peter Stiefenhöfer

Plus Interview with Peter Keppler,
Sales Manager at Stemmer Imaging

EDITORIAL
Afraid of Strategy?
Gabriele Jansen

TOPICS
SPS/IPC/Drives 2010
Exhibition Area of SPS/IPC/Drives in Nuremberg, Germany,
at Record Level

It's about Time
Review: Technology and User Congress "Virtual Instruments in Practice - VIP 2010"

Industrial 3D Sensors - Where Will the Journey Lead?
Insights into and Outlooks on the Development of 3D Machine Vision
Dr. Matthias Rottenkolber

News
Online
Poll

Products of the Future
EuroMold 2010 in Frankfurt, Germany, with e-Production Special

Learned in School - Learned for Life
Optical Metrology Basics: Triangulation
Prof. Dr. Christoph Heckenkamp

Visionaries
Interview with Terry Arden, CEO LMI Technologies


VISION
Bring Your Avatar to Life
3D Sensors for Interactive Human-Machine Interfaces
Jochen Penne

One-eyed Vision - Three-dimensional World
Capture of Stereoscopic Image Pairs through a Single Optical Channel

Surface-based 3D Matching
A Software Tool for Working with 3D Point Clouds
Dr. Wolfgang Eckstein, Bertram Drost

Smart Alliances
Robot Learning via 3D Vision
Hob Wubbena

AUTOMATION
Ruler of Diversity
3D Machine Vision Accelerates Wheel Production
Rob Ashwell

Step-by-Step towards Success
Combined Techniques for Efficient Inline 3D Surface Profiling
Sébastien Parent, Michael Muldoon

Attraction in Hollywood
3D Sensors Bring Interactive Animation to Guinness World Record Museum

On a Given Path
Track-in Programming Tool with Infrared Sensors
Volker Huth

The Devil Is in the Details
3D Container Inspection System
Andrew Long

CONTROL
So Far, Yet so Close
Optical Profilometer Systems Inspect Hard-to-reach Surfaces
Vuk Bartulovic

Gouges and Grooves
Inspecting Surface Defects through Roughness Parameters