New Look Newsletter Published By UKIVA

The main feature highlights the diversity of vision applications and shows how machine vision capabilities such as colour recognition, pattern matching and optical character recognition can be used in non-industrial applications such as helping the visually impaired to see and screening for bladder cancer.

Other application stories featured cover topics such as the manufacture of plumbing components using vision-guided robots; product traceability of packaging in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries; development of ‘gaze tracking’ software to help quadriplegics interact with a computer; the diagnosis of ‘wavefront aberration’ defects in the human eye and the high speed inspection and verification of labels with varying serial numbers, such as software licence numbers or banknotes.

The newsletter also features a full members directory, news supplied by members, new product information, details on training courses offered by members and technical tips. ‘Vision in Action’ is published twice a year. The next issue is scheduled for Autumn 2012.