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- The Computer Vision Industry 링크
http://www.cs.ubc.ca/spider/lowe/vision.html
List of companies and applications
This list is in roughly decreasing order of estimated revenues from the computer vision applications. The total size of the worldwide computer vision industry is estimated at $6.6 billion (2003), but this includes many suppliers to the industry that are not listed here. I have only listed companies for which I could find web pages.
Cognex Corp.
- Location: Natick, Massachusetts
- Revenues: $150 million (2003), 620 employees (Yahoo)
- Products: Cognex provides a wide range of machine vision systems for industry, typically performing 2-D inspection and localization tasks in assembly-line settings. Some applications include component verification, part placement, and dimensional measurement in the automotive, electronics, packaging and pharmaceutical industries.
- Vision technologies: The systems are mostly based on algorithms for rapid 2-D template matching. New PatMax approach uses edge matching for scale and orientation independent 2-D recognition (patent pending). Patent search shows a number of patents related to improving the efficiency of template matching.
Robotic Vision Systems Inc (RVSI)
- Location: Hauppauge, New York
- Revenues: $43 million (2003), 195 employees (Hoover's)
- Products: RVSI provides vision products for electronics inspection and assembly, as well as many other applications.
KLA-Tencor
- Location: San Jose, California
- Revenues: $1.3 billion (2003), but vision is an unknown proportion. (Hoover's)
- Products: Produces systems for inspection and process control in semiconductor manufacturing.
- Vision technologies: Uses morphological processing among other vision methods to match circuit patterns to a database for defect detection.
Orbotech
- Location: Yavne, Israel
- Revenues: $228 million (2003). Much, but not all, is vision related. (Hoover's)
- Products: Automated inspection systems for printed circuit boards and flat panel displays.
- Vision technologies: Seems to mostly use 2-D feature detection and registration to compare images of printed circuit boards to a master image.
Identix (merged with Visionics, 2002)
- Location: Minnetonka, Minnesota
- Revenues: $92 million (2003), but not all vision related (Yahoo)
- Products: Fingerprint and face recognition systems for security applications. Also contains other non-vision computer security technologies.
- Vision technologies: Face recognition uses image subtraction to quickly determine face location from motion. This is followed by face recognition which is based on the detection of local face features. These are claimed to be more invariant to illumination and pose changes than global face matching. The product is based on research by Joseph Atick and others at Rockefeller University.
ICOS Vision Systems
- Location: Heverlee, Belgium
- Revenues: $56 million (2003) (Hoover's)
- Products: Provides electronics inspection systems for component assembly and seminconductor manufacturing.
CyberOptics
- Location: Golden Valley (Minneapolis), Minnesota
- Revenues: $35 million (2003) (Hoover's, Yahoo)
- Products: Provides solder-paste inspection systems for the electronics industry. Also other non-contact sensing systems for manufacturing applications.
- Vision technologies: Most systems use laser triangulation for sensing. Accuracy can be in the sub-micron range.
Electro Scientific Industries
- Location: Portland, Oregon
- Revenues: $136 million (2003) for entire company, $29 million for vision systems (1999). (Yahoo)
- Products: Systems for inspection and alignment of semi-conductor wafers and electronic parts.
Basler Vision Technologies
- Location: Ahrensburg, Germany (headquarters) and offices in other countries
- Revenues: $35 million (2003)
- Products: Line and area scan cameras. Inspection systems for compact disks, DVDs, o-rings, credit cards, etc.
- Vision technologies: Develops complete systems including cameras, processors, and software for each application. Has own line of cameras, illumination devices, and vision computers.
Perceptron
- Location: Plymouth, Michigan
- Revenues: $54 million (2003). Much, but not all, is vision related. (Yahoo)
- Products: Automobile inspection. Lumber measurement and optimized cutting. Work is done in part by several subsidiaries.
- Vision technologies: Most approaches are based on laser imaging sensors, some of which can produce combined range/intensity data.
Viisage
- Location: Billerica, Massachusetts
- Revenues: $37 million (2003). (Yahoo)
- Products: Sells face recognition systems for security applications.
- Vision technologies: Face recognition is based on eigenface approach licensed from MIT.
Iridian
- Location: Moorestown, New Jersey
- Revenues: 50 employees, $33 million investment funding (2000).
- Products: Vision system that acquires a high resolution image of a person's eye and performs positive identification based on iris pattern. Image is automatically acquired from distance of up to 1 meter.
- Vision technologies: This system combines an impressive range of modern computer vision technologies. It uses stereo processing to determine head location and distance, face matching to determine eye location, and rapid pan-tilt-zoom-focus to acquire high resolution image within less than 1 second. System uses pyramid processing hardware from Sarnoff Corp.
TriPath Imaging
- Location: Redmond, Washington
- Revenues: $27 million (2001), mostly vision related (Yahoo)
- Products: AutoPap scans microscope slides from Pap smears to detect abnormal cells that may indicate cervical cancer.
- Vision technologies: The slide is scanned under an automated microscope. Proprietary algorithms are used to identify suspicious cells.
Virtek Vision International
- Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Revenues: $27 million (2003)
- Products: Laser imaging and projection systems for DNA array analysis, aerospace, lumber trusses, and leather goods.
- Vision technologies: Vision system detects boundaries and defects in leather hides. Also used to provide alignment with 3-D objects. Projected laser beams create precise patterns on 3-D objects as an aid to manufacturing.
LMI Technologies
- Location: Delta (Vancouver), British Columbia, Canada
- Revenues: About $25 million (2004)
- Products: Develops laser imaging systems for 3D measurement. Application areas include wood products, automotive, foundry, industrial sensors, and road inspection.
Orad
- Location: Raanana, Israel
- Revenues: $14 million (2002).
- Products: Virtual set is used to insert actors in a synthetic scene while allowing for a moving camera. The actors are filmed in front of a blue screen with a pattern that is used to solve for camera position. Sports analysis software is used to track players and provide models for commentary.
- Vision technologies: Sports analysis is provided by tracking players and ball, with some assistance from a human editor in cases of ambiguity. For virtual set, a pattern of lines projected within the blue screen is used to solve for the camera's 6 degree-of-freedom motion, as well as zoom. The solution is performed in real time by custom image processing hardware.
Advanced Vision Technology
- Location: Herzlia, Israel
- Revenues: $17 million (2003).
- Products: PrintVision/9000 system monitors output of a printing press and detects many types of printing defects.
- Vision technologies: Emphasis is on high-speed detection of color changes and other defects.
PPT Vision, Inc.
- Location: Eden Prairie, Minnesota
- Revenues: $8.8 million (2003) (Hoover's)
- Products: Vision systems for electronic and mechanical assembly verification, character verification, packaging integrity, surface flaw detection, semiconductor component inspection, and gauging and measurement tasks.
- Vision technologies: Uses proprietary FlashFind algorithm for efficient correlation matching at arbitrary rotations. Hardware integrates digital cameras for all-digital processing.
Elbit Vision Systems Ltd.
- Location: Yoqneam, Israel
- Revenues: $7 million (2002). (Yahoo)
- Products: Vision systems for textile inspection and other inspection tasks.
- Vision technologies: Fabric inspection is based on computer vision and psychology research into texture analysis and color discrimination.
Adept Technology
- Location: San Jose, California
- Revenues: $44 million (2003) for entire company. Vision revenue is about 15% of total. (Hoover's)
- Products: AdeptVision provides a full featured vision system for integration with Adept robots. About 35% of robots are sold with vision systems.
- Vision technologies: Vision system contains wide range of 2-D object recogntion, template matching, measurement, and inspection modules running on special hardware with convolver chip.
Ensco
- Location: Springfield, Virginia
- Revenues: About $80 million (2001) for entire company. Vision is a smaller, unknown portion.
- Products: Inspection of agricultural products, rail lines, lumber, airline baggage, etc. Also, postal code recognition.
- Vision technologies: The company employs a wide range of vision approaches, including color, object recognition, and laser ranging.
Keyence
- Location: Osaka, Japan
- Revenues: About $80 million (2000) for entire company, with vision an unknown portion.
- Products: Vision systems for industrial inspection and automation.
Integral Vision
- Location: Farmington Hills, Michigan
- Revenues: $10.7 million (1999). (Yahoo)
- Products: Inspection of optical disks, electronics, and packaging.
- Vision technologies: Created VisionBlox software for PCs, which allows rapid development of vision applications using ActiveX controls.
Newton Research Labs
- Location: Renton, Washington
- Revenues: About $10 million (2001).
- Products: Provides vision systems for high-speed color and object tracking, object identification, and assembly verification.
- Vision technologies: Has demonstrated integration of real-time vision with mobile robots. Their systems have won several mobile robotics competitions.
ERDAS
- Location: Atlanta, Georgia
- Revenues: Unknown. 150 employees (1999).
- Products: Geographics interpretation systems for satellite or aerial photographs. Includes a wide range of modules for map making, analysis and visualization.
- Vision technologies: Uses stereo correlation to build 3-D digital terrain models from multiple views. Also has pixel classification modules for image interpretation.
CogniTens
- Location: Ramat-Hasharon, Israel
- Revenues: Unknown (65 employees, 2001).
- Products: System for scanning 3D objects to build models or inspect agreement of objects to CAD database.
- Vision technologies: Uses 4-camera head with a projected pattern of fine texture to produce cloud of points from accurate stereo matching. Points sets can be registered from multiple views to create detailed models of large objects.
Image Sensing Systems
- Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
- Revenues: $7 million (2001) (Yahoo)
- Products: Autoscope uses roadside video cameras to generate traffic data such as volume, speed, occupancy, headways, queue lengths, and vehicle classification, which in turn is used for real-time traffic management.
- Vision technologies: The user identifies zones of interest in the video image from fixed cameras. The system then detects and monitors motion within these zones and outputs measurements of interest.
Matrox
- Location: Dorval (Montreal), Canada
- Revenues: $500 million (2001) for whole company, but vision is small unknown portion (Hoover's)
- Products: Matrox provides a wide range of vision software that makes use of its frame grabber boards. Software seems to mostly provide standard template matching and measurement functions.
Datacube
- Location: Danvers, Massachusetts
- Revenues: About $20 million, but most is vision hardware rather than software
- Products: Although Datacube is best known for vision hardware, it also provides a number of complete applications in medical imaging, electronics manufacturing, and continuous web inspection.
- Vision technologies: Most applications leverage off the high-speed Datacube hardware. The MaxVision Toolkit provides many modules for template matching, edge localization, and measurement. The surface mount technology (SMT) package provides automated recognition, inspection and localization of electronic parts through the use of 2-D sub-pixel template matching.
Coreco
- Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Revenues: $31 million (2000), but most is vision hardware rather than software (Yahoo)
- Products: Although Coreco is best known for vision hardware, it also provides a number of vision software products, including the WiT system by subsidiary Logical Vision.
- Vision technologies: WiT provides a graphical programming approach to designing vision software, in which processing modules are linked into a graphical flow graph. It contains a large number of modules and can be ported to vision hardware from many manufacturers.
Princeton Video Image
- Location: Lawrenceville (Princeton), New Jersey
- Revenues: $4.6 million (2001) (Yahoo)
- Products: System that automatically inserts advertising into real-time video so that it appears to be part of the 3-D scene. It has been used, for example, to insert advertising selected for differing local markets into televised sports events. It can also be used to insert animated advertising in physically impossible locations.
- Vision technologies: The most difficult aspect of this problem is in reliably and accurately locating the region of the scene at which to do the insertion. Patents show that this is done by template matching, including the use of hierarchical pyramid matching and sequential matching of subtemplates. Final insertion requires modeling the background so that occluding objects can be identified and retained in the video.
Evolution Robotics
- Location: Pasadena, California
- Products: Software for mobile robots, including visual recognition, navigation, and user interaction. Also sells low-cost robot platforms.
- Vision technologies: Has developed fast and reliable implementation of local feature methods for recognition. Software runs in real time on standard PC laptops.
MobilEye
- Location: Jerusalem, Israel
- Revenues: Unknown. Raised $10 million (2001).
- Products: Developing systems to assist drivers of a car to avoid accidents and provide automatic cruise control.
- Vision technologies: Uses the latest computer vision research in systems for obstacle detection and tracking, ego-motion computation, and road geometry analysis.
Iteris
- Location: Anaheim, California
- Products: Sells lane departure warning systems for trucks and cars that monitors position on road. In use in over 10,000 trucks (2005). Also creates traffic monitoring systems.
ObjectVideo
- Location: Reston, Virginia
- Products: Automated video surveillance products.
- Vision technologies: The product uses background modeling, tracking, classification, and activity recognition. Performs active tracking using a pan/tilt/zoom head. Started by researchers from the VSAM project at DARPA.
2D3
- Location: Oxford, UK
- Products: Boujou tracks objects in video or film and solves for full 3D motion to allow for precise integration of virtual objects. This is used to add computer graphics to film for special effects and to reduce costs of set design.
- Vision technologies: Tracks corner points in video sequences followed by robust estimation of camera geometry and motion. Achieves sub-pixel precision so that virtual objects appear rigidly attached to scene. Research spin-off from Oxford.
Neptec
- Location: Ottawa, Canada
- Products: Develops computer vision systems for the Space Shuttles and other space applications.
Wintriss Engineering
- Location: San Diego, California
- Products: Vision systems for surface inspection applications.
Omron
- Location: Vision Labs, Kyoto, Japan
- Vision technologies: Systems for recognizing faces, shapes, characters, and other visual technologies.
Imagis
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Revenues: About $2 million (2001) (Yahoo), 40 employees (2002)
- Products: Face recognition and ID systems for law enforcement, casinos, and other application areas.
Vision IQ
- Location: Boulogne-Billancourt, France
- Revenues: Has over 40 employees (2001).
- Products: The Poseidon System monitors swimming pools to warn of accidents and drowning victims.
Dipix Technologies
- Location: Ottawa, Canada
- Revenues: Unknown (has 40 employees, 2000).
- Products: Vision systems for the baked goods industry. Systems monitor bake color, shape, and size of bread, cookies, tortillas, etc.
Sport Universal
- Location: Nice, France
- Revenues: 30 employees (2004)
- Products: Has developed system for tracking sports players and ball in real time with some human assistance. Can provide detailed analysis and statistics of each player and game.
Equinox
- Location: New York, NY, USA
- Products: Develops systems using novel sensors, such as registered visible and thermal infrared images and a face recognition system using thermal infrared imaging.
Avalon
- Location: Lithia Springs, Georgia
- Products: Vision systems for the plastics industry, including monitoring and controlling injection molding.
DVT
- Location: Norcross, Georgia
- Revenues: Unknown, but has sold over 5000 systems.
- Products: Sells fully integrated sensors and processors for industrial automation and inspection.
- Vision technologies: SmartImage Sensor systems directly access data from the CCD without the usual signal conversion. This eliminates horizontal jitter and allows for dynamic selection of frame rates.
Media Cybernetics
- Location: Silver Spring, Maryland
- Revenues: Has sold 15,000 copies of Image-Pro software.
- Products: Image-Pro software package provides large number of functions for enhancing, classifying and counting objects in microscope images and other applications.
Scanalytics
- Location: Fairfax, Virginia
- Revenues: Has over 5000 customers.
- Products: Vision products for scientists. Products include GeneProfiler for reading gene sequences and IPLab for building general vision applications.
Perceptics
- Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
- Products: Creates license plate readers, systems for reading codes on shipping containers, and automated inspection systems for the food processing, medical device, and pharmaceutical industries.
JLI
- Location: Soborg, Denmark
- Products: Has developed many vision systems for industrial inspection tasks, particularly for food processing, glassware, medical devices, and the steel industry.
Amerinex Applied Imaging
- Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
- Products: Sells computer vision software systems. Also does contract vision research and development.
- Vision technologies: Builds on a range of research on feature detection, line finding, model-based matching, and other topics from The University of Massachusetts Vision Lab.
Geometrix
- Location: San Jose, California
- Products: Automatic generation of 3-D models from multiple images. Current application is to performing accurate face recognition through matching recovered 3D data rather than the usual 2D image.
Advanced Interfaces
- Location: State College, Pennsylvania
- Products: Systems for tracking people, providing vision-based computer interfaces, and other applications.
Integrated Vision Products (IVP)
- Location: Linkoping, Sweden
- Products: Applications include inspection of railway track, bottles, food, wood products, and paper.
- Vision technologies: The Smart Vision Sensor is an integrated circuit that combines sensing and low-level computation. This is integrated with PC software for higher-level processing aimed at particular applications.
Eos Systems
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Revenues: Unknown. Has sold shrink-wrapped software to large number of users.
- Products: PhotoModeler software allows creation of texture-mapped 3-D models in VRML and other formats from a small number of photographs of an object.
- Vision technologies: The product solves for photogrammetry and camera calibration parameters to map corresponding image features to 3-D. User interaction is used for determining corresponding points and to select surface boundaries.
Universal Imaging Corporation
- Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
- Products: PC based systems for video and digital microscopy for biological imaging applications.
Ellips
- Location: Eindhoven, The Netherlands
- Revenues: Unknown. Has 14 employees (2001).
- Products: Vision systems for inspecting agricultural products, such as grading fruit and vegetables or controlling potato peeling.
- Vision technologies: Color and shape measurements are used as inputs to statistical decision making.
InnovMetric
- Location: Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada
- Revenues: Unknown, but has many customers.
- Products: Systems for aligning and merging sets of 3-D data points from laser scanners and building surface models. Provides for output of full texture-mapped VRML models.
- Vision technologies: Uses a global optimization process to automatically align 3-D data sets. A compression method represents curved surfaces with a minimum number of polygons.
REALVIZ
- Location: Sophia Antipolis, France
- Products: System for building 3D models from images, with only modest user interaction. Also other multimedia vision applications, such as camera location tracking and image manipulation.
Miros
- Location: Wellesley, Massachusetts
- Products: TrueFace system for face recognition. This has been integrated in a check cashing ATM machine, among other applications.
- Vision technologies: Uses 2 cameras to get stereo view of face. Identification is done by neural network method.
Cortex Vision Systems
- Location: Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
- Products: Automated video surveillance to detect intruders or unusual events. System can track events, zoom and pan camera, and retain video records.
- Vision technologies: Mentions proprietary algorithms for filtering out irrelevant motion.
Xiris Automation
- Location: Burlington, Ontario, Canada
- Products: Has developed many industrial vision applications in semiconductor, consumer products and health care areas.
DVT Corp.
- Location: Norcross, Georgia
- Revenues: Unknown (about 1000 systems sold).
- Products: SmartImage Sensor combines sensor and all processing in a single small unit. Performs location and measurement tasks for inspection and industrial automation.
- Vision technologies: System uses direct digital transfer of the image from CCD array to processor memory.
LifeFX
- Location: Newton, Massachusetts
- Revenues: Has about 40 employees (2001).
- Products: Creates annimated virtual models of humans for creating a virtual presence over the Internet.
HexaVision
- Location: Sainte Foy (Quebec City), Canada
- Revenues: Has about 30 employees (1999).
- Products: HexSight software for PCs performs object recognition, inspection, gauging, alignment and guidance.
- Vision technologies: Object recognition and matching is done using a geometric edge-based method. This allows for more variation and invariance to illumination than the usual template-matching approaches.
BrainTech
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Revenues: 22 employees (2003)
- Products: Systems for industrial automation, including recognition and precise 3D pose determination.
Hawkeye Innovations
- Location: Southampton, England
- Products: Tracks tennis and cricket balls to 5mm accuracy using multiple cameras placed around the playing surface. This is used during major televised tournaments to provide accurate tracks for balls.
- Vision technologies: Uses a Kalman filter applied over the length of a track detected in multiple calibrated camera images.
Imagineer Software
- Location: Surrey, England
- Products: Develops computer vision software for the film and video industries. Initial product, Mokey, allows segmentation of a moving object from a video sequence.
SIGHTech
- Location: San Jose, California
- Products: Low-cost vision systems (as low as $1000) that perform object recognition or inspection after being trained on a sample of images.
- Vision technologies: Uses a learning method to perform object recognition based on a number of training images. For enhanced speed, the algorithm is programmed into a field programmable gate array. The approach is based on first performing feature extraction on the image (no information given on the type of features), and then using these to make a classification decision based on training data.
Applied Computing Technology (ACT)
- Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
- Revenues: 15 employees
- Products: Automated Inspection & Measurement Systems (AIMS) for quantitative and qualitative purposes. Develops complete systems including software, processors and cameras for high-speed manufacturing applications.
3DM Devices
- Location: Aldergrove (Vancouver), Canada
- Revenues: Has 13 employees (2003).
- Products: Laser scanning systems for lumber and biomedical applications.
NeuroCheck GmbH
- Location: Remseck, Germany
- Products: Produces NeuroCheck software for industrial machine vision. Sofware is aimed at a broad range of applications.
- Vision technologies: Uses template matching to locate parts, with many further functions for classification, measurement, and color matching.
SpikeNet
- Location: Toulouse, France
- Products: Vision systems for performing recognition based on research from the Brain and Cognition Research Centre in Toulouse.
Festo
- Location: Esslingen, Germany
- Products: The "Festo Checkbox" is a machine vision product to check quality and orientation of parts, mainly focused on small parts feeding.
Cortex Machina
- Location: Montreal, Canada
- Products: Vision systems for health care. ShadeScan matches color of prosthetic teeth to natural color of patient's teeth.
VisionSphere
- Location: Montreal, Canada
- Products: Face recognition and license plate reading systems.
Reality Fusion
- Location: Santa Cruz, California
- Products: PC software for real-time 2-D tracking of a user or colored objects. Applications include playing games or controlling a computer.
- Vision technologies: Applications appear to be based on efficient implementations of background subtraction, color region extraction, and region boundary tracking.
Point Grey Research
- Location: Vancouver, Canada
- Products: The Triclops vision system uses 3 cameras to derive a real-time depth map from stereo matching. The system runs on a standard PC.
- Vision technologies: Has developed a custom camera module with 3 cameras that provide simultaneous image acquisition. Images are warped according to camera calibration model. Correlation stereo uses MMX instructions to provide real-time speeds on a standard PC.
Noesis
- Location: St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada
- Products: Visilog image processing and analysis software. Has been used for many biomedical and other applications.
- Vision technologies: Seems to provide a wide range of existing image processing and vision modules.
Sportvision
- Location: New York, NY
- Products: Systems to provide real-time graphics overlays to enhance sports broadcast. Includes vision systems to place first-down line in football, track baseballs and overlay video of car races and golf matches.
Ojos Inc.
- Location: Redwood City, California
- Products: Develops the Riya face recognition system for searching and tagging personal databases of photos.
Aurora
- Location: Northampton, U.K.
- Products: Systems for biometric face recognition.
Seeing Machines
- Location: Canberra, Australia
- Products: Systems for tracking head position, eye gaze direction, and facial expression. Initial application was for detection of driver fatigue.
Smart Eye
- Location: G?eborg, Sweden
- Products: Automotive systems for tracking eye and head position.
QuesTec
- Location: Deer Park, New York
- Products: Creates systems for tracking sports action and creating annimations for TV broadcasting.
Digital Persona
- Location: Redwood City, California
- Products: Sells a fingerprint recognition system. Company founders include members of the computer vision community.
URATEK
- Location: Puyricard (Marseille), France
- Products: Systems for eye movement tracking, smoke identification for fire forest detector, and camera motion tracking for head movements measurements.
Malin
- Location: Manchester, UK
- Products: Systems for face and vehicle identification.
Redflex Traffic Systems
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Products: Systems for traffic monitoring and license plate reading.
IC Vision
- Location: Saint-Laurent, Quebec, Canada
- Products: Vision systems for high-volume manufacturers in industries suchs as cap and closure, container, food and beverage, and pharmaceutical. Systems use a learning approach from a large set of features extracted from sample images.
DVS (Dutch Vision Systems)
- Location: Breda, The Netherlands
- Products: Produces a range of vision systems for inspection, classification, security, and other applications.
Image Metrics
- Location: Manchester, England
- Products: Systems for face recognition, medical image interpretation, and other model-based recognition tasks.
- Vision technologies: Based on the Active Appearance Models approach developed at the University of Manchester.
Machine Vision Products, Inc.
- Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Products: Develops vision systems for the semiconductor, automotive, electronic assembly, food processing and pharmaceutical industries.
Claron Technology
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Products: Uses real-time stereo vision to detect and track the pose (location and orientation) of markers. Operates with natural light and passive markers.
Asia Vision
- Location: Hong Kong
- Products: Systems for reading characters from shipping containers or license plates.
Imago
- Location: Ottawa, Canada
- Products: Video tracking system that identifies and tracks moving objects in real time with a pan/tilt camera. Applications include military target tracking and golf ball trajectory analysis.
Reveal
- Location: Auckland, New Zealand
- Products: Systems for counting and tracking pedestrians using overhead cameras.
Eyematic
- Location: Los Angeles California
- Products: Systems for tracking faces and gestures for human-computer interaction.
Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition
- Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Products: Develops systems for face detection and object recognition.
- Vision technologies: Based on research in object recognition by Henry Schneiderman at Carnegie Mellon University.
MetaCreations
- Location: Carpinteria, California
- Products: The Canoma system allows 3D models to be built from photographs. Based on the Facade research from Berkeley.
TYZX
- Location: Palo Alto, California
- Products: Produces real-time stereo vision systems that use a custom chip to increase speed of stereo matching.
LTU Technologies
- Location: Paris, France
- Products: Performs web filtering and searches based on image content. Applications include image searching, identifying products based on images, and filtering inappropriate content,
Aimetis
- Location: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Products: Produces systems for intelligent video surveillance, including embedded processing solutions for real-time analysis of video.
Activeye
- Location: Pleasantville, New York
- Products: Develops high-level vision systems for video surveillance, including tracking, object monitoring, and behavior analysis.
Cobion
- Location: Kassel, Germany
- Products: Searches for web images based on image content. Applications include looking for corporate logos.
Creative Dimension Software
- Location: Guildford, UK
- Products: Products include 3dsom, which automatically creates 3D models from a set of images.
InSpeck
- Location: Quebec City, Canada
- Products: Produces a non-contact digitizer that uses projected light to create a full 3-D textured model of the human face or body in sub-second times.
Eyetronics
- Location: Leuven, Belgium
- Products: Produces a 3-D scanner using an ordinary still digital camera combined with a projector showing a grid of lines.
MVTec
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Products: Sells a vision toolkit, HALCON. Also implements custom vision systems for industrial and other applications.
Intense Technologies
- Location: Richmond (Vancouver), Canada
- Products: Has developed custom vision applications for grading lumber, gauging saw blades, counting transit passengers, grading used golf balls, etc.
RemoteReality
- Location: Westborough, MA
- Products: Sells hardware and software to acquire 360 degree images and perform virtual pan/tilt/zoom.
- Vision technologies: This is based on the Omnicamera developed by Shree Nayar at Columbia. It uses a particular sensor geometry to acquire a 360 degree view. Software is used to display selected portions of the image under software control.
VE Tech
- Location: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
- Revenues: Unknown. Division of Canpolar East Inc.
- Products: Provides systems for monitoring salmon in rivers and performing inspection tasks.
- Vision technologies: Sells camera that combines wide-angle and narrow view lenses that can saccade to new locations at 30Hz, giving effective image resolution of 20K x 20K.
C3D Imaging
- Location: Glasgow, Scotland
- Products: The C3D system uses multiple cameras to contruct 3-D images of objects from multiple views.
- Vision technologies: Uses a calibration object to solve for geometry relating multiple cameras. Then uses stereo matching, with optional textured illumination, to determine 3-D object shape. Final results can be presented as VRML models.
VX Optronics
- Location: Calgary, Canada
- Products: Camera for stereo sensing. Provides development kit for using calibrated camera system.
Vivid Group
- Location: Toronto, Canada
- Products: Uses a camera to track a person's body movements and gestures for playing games and interacting with on-screen graphics. Markets system to museums and science centers.
Perceptive Networks
- Location: Waltham, Massachusetts
- Products: Developing system to monitor presence of user to enable coordination of video conferencing.
Vision Systems Engineering
- Location: Seattle, Washington
- Products: Provides machine vision integration and engineering for manufacturing and inspection.
