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
