IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH, market pioneer in industrial machine vision, and Prophesee SA, inventor of the most advanced neuromorphic vision systems, announces that IDS’ new uEye EVS camera line incorporates the high-speed, dynamic range and data efficiency of the Prophesee-Sony IMX636HD event-based vision sensor to offer new capabilities for industrial machine vision applications.
High-speed event-based vision
The uEye EVS camera redefines high-speed machine vision for unprecedented precision
The result of extensive collaboration between the two companies, the solution features Prophesee’s proven neuromorphic approach to capturing fast-moving objects with significantly less data processing, power and blur than traditional frame-based methods.
With these capabilities, the uEye EVS camera is the ideal solution for applications that require real-time machine vision processing at very high speed, such as optical monitoring of vibrations or high-speed motion analyses.
Conventional image sensors
The camera benefits from Prophesee’s event-based vision’s ability to capture only relevant events in a scene. In contrast to conventional image sensors, it does not capture every image completely at regular intervals (frames) but only reacts to changes within a scene.
It transmits events depending on when and where the brightness in its field of view changes - for each individual sensor pixel. The temporal resolution, i.e. the minimum measurable time difference between two successive changes in brightness, can be less than 100 microseconds.
Metavision SDK integration
The sensor is supported by Metavision SDK, a seamlessly integrated suite of software tool
The sensor is supported by Metavision SDK, a seamlessly integrated suite of software tools and models, APIs, and other training and development resources from Prophesee for efficient evaluation, visualisation, and customisation.
"This partnership combines our mutual areas of expertise to realise 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.
Enhanced efficiency & performance
“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.”
