Industrial camera taps Prophesee event-driven AI sensor
A German industrial camera maker is using the neuromorphic event driven image sensing technology from Prophesee for a new series of
The uEye EVS industrial cameras developed by IDS Imaging Development Systems uses the Prophesee-Sony IMX636HD event-based vision sensor to offer new capabilities for industrial machine vision applications.
The neuromorphic spiking neural network approach developed by Prohpesee in France captures fast-moving objects with significantly less data processing, power and blur than traditional frame-based methods. This allows real-time machine vision processing at very high speed, such as optical monitoring of vibrations or high-speed motion analysis.
The uEye EVS camera captures only relevant events in a scene, only reacting to changes within a scene and transmits events depending on when and where the brightness in its field of view changes – for each individual sensor pixel. The temporal resolution can be less than 100 microseconds.
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The sensor is supported by the Metavision SDK, a suite of software tools and AI models, APIs, and other training and development resources from Prophesee for efficient evaluation, visualization, and customization.
“This partnership combines our mutual areas of expertise to realize the benefits of event-based vision, including remarkable temporal resolution which make the cameras optimised for analysing highly dynamic scenes. It enables best conditions for capturing fast object movements without loss of information, comparable to an image-based frame rate of more than 10,000 images per second,” explains Patrick Schick, Product Owner 3D & Vision Software.
“At the same time, the sensor ignores all motionless areas of its field of view and thus generates 10 to 1000 times less data than image-based variants. This saves memory and computing time.”
“IDS cameras are well known to address the toughest machine vision use cases and with the incorporation of Prophesee event-based vision technologies, it strengthens its offering to provide far more performance, power efficiency and accuracy, even in the most challenging conditions,” says Luca Verre, CEO and co-founder of Prophesee. “We are excited to see how the efforts of this tight collaboration have resulted in the new uEye EVS camera which leverages the potential of our sensors and development environment to deliver new value to its customers.”
IDS develops 2D and 3D cameras as well as models with AI or with streaming/event recording feature. It was founded in 1997 as a two-man company and now has 320 staff with development and production in Obersulm, Germany.
en.ids-imaging.com/ueye-evs-cameras.html; www.prophesee.ai/
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