EMVA European Machine Vision Association

Transformation of EMVA 1288 into ISO 24942

Further development of an EMVA standard at ISO level

EMVA Business Conference in Rome comes to a successful close

Over 170 B2B meetings were organized among the 105 mostly high-ranking participants.

Innovative 3D hand modeling wins award

Dr. Rolandos Alexandros Potamias received the EMVA Young Professional Award 2025 for his work on high-precision 3D hand modeling, recognition, and reconstruction in world coordinates.

Highlights of the EMVA Business Conference 2025 in Rome

The conference will begin with a keynote speech by Marcelo Carvalho on “European Business Outlook – Navigating the New Reality.”

EMVA Business Conference: Closing speaker announced

Charlie Cannon, a renowned performance enhancement and resilience coach, will close the conference.

Logimat 2025: EMVA members present innovations in logistics

Eight EMVA member companies present their latest image processing solutions for the logistics industry in Stuttgart

International Vision Standards Meeting in spring 2025

Visual standards experts from around the world will meet in Québec, Canada, from April 28 to May 2, 2025, for the Spring Meeting

EMVA Young Professional Award 2025: Applications now being accepted

The winner receives 1,500 euros and can present his work at the EMVA Business Conference in Rome.

The 7th European Machine Vision Forum focused on machine vision for human-machine interaction

In line with this year's focus topic, the 7th European Machine Vision Forum on November 7-8 in Mulhouse offered inspiring insights into methods and applications of machine vision for human-machine interaction.

EMVA lifts EMVA 1288 Standard to ISO Level

International experts are invited to join the ISO-TC42-Working Group 28

7th European Machine Vision Forum takes place in France

The main topic is the challenges and opportunities of computer vision for human-machine interaction

Programme of the European Machine Vision Forum in Alsace

One of the topics in November will be the challenges and opportunities of computer vision for human-machine interaction

European Machine Vision Forum in France

Challenges and opportunities of computer vision for human-machine interaction are the focus of the EMVA event

Machine Vision Forum: Submit proposals now

The deadline for submissions for the 7th European Machine Vision Forum is June 28th

EMVA: General Assembly Elects New Board of Directors

Dr. Chris Yates continues another term as EMVA President, Dr. Kai-Udo Modrich becomes Vice President, Arndt Bake remains EMVA Treasurer

EMVA Business Conference 2024 is in the starting blocks

In mid-June, CEOs and other decision-makers in industrial image processing will meet in Gdansk. So far, around 100 participants from 14 nations have registered.

Young Professional Award '24: Proceedings nearing completion

The application phase for the EMVA Young Professional Award is almost over: you can only apply for the award until May 17th

EMVA for the first time at Logimat 2024

Joint member stand and forum session with image processing applications for logistics

EMVA announces Young Professional Award

You can apply now; the prize is worth 1,500 euros

VDI awards medal of honor to Prof. Dr. Michael Heizmann

In recognition of his many years of voluntary work in the VDI/VDE Society for Measurement and Automation Technology, Prof. Dr. Michael Heizmann was awarded the VDI badge of honor in mid-November.

EMVA celebrated Machine Vision Forum in Wageningen as success

More than a hundred specialists met in mid-October at the European Machine Vision Forum in Wageningen, Netherlands.

6th European Machine Vision Forum takes place in Wageningen

The sixth European Machine Vision Forum organized by EMVA will take place on October 12th and 13th. The on-site host is Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands.

Pieter Blok wins EMVA Young Professional Award 2023

The EMVA Young Professional Award 2023 goes to Dr. Pieter Blok for his work “Advanced deep learning for harvest robotics”.

Kamaros is the name for the Embedded Camera System API from Khronos

Khronos has officially set "Kamaros" (pronounced Kam-ă-ross) as the name for the Embedded Camera System API and its associated working group.

EMVA Young Professional Award 2023 - Call for applications has started

The EMVA Young Professional Award 2023 offers prize money, presentation at the EMVA Business Conference in Seville and participation in the European Machine Vision Forum 2023 in the Netherlands. The deadline for applications is 31 March 2023.

New Chair of GenICam Working Group elected

Michael Schmidt takes over from long-term serving Dr. Fritz Dierks

Review: 5th European Machine Vision Forum in Cork a complete success

Around 70 machine vision scientists and users met at the 5th European Machine Vision Forum in Cork, Ireland, organized by the EMVA at the end of October.

International Vision Night on the eve of Vision 2022

To get in the mood for the trade fair, the International Vision Night on the eve of the opening of Vision 2022 offers a mixture of networking and celebrations in a relaxed atmosphere.

EMVA appoints new Business Development Manager

The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) today announced that Oliver Scheel has joined the EMVA team as Business Development Manager, effective September 1st.

EMVA updates terms of use for EMVA 1288 standard and GenICam working group

With the release 4.0 of the EMVA 1288 standard last year, new terms of use came into effect. Now the transition period has expired and all users of the old one have to apply for a new license. In addition, all members of the GenICam working group must re-register after June 30, 2022.

5th European Machine Vision Forum: Call for Papers Started

The European Machine Vision Association EMVA is calling on researchers and developers to contribute to the 5th European Machine Vision Forum.

The winner of the EMVA Young Professional Award 2022 has been chosen

Karsten Roth has won the EMVA Young Professional Award 2022.

The 20th EMVA Business Conference in Brussels is about to start

The EMVA expects around 120 participants to attend the Business Conference in Brussels, the first physical meeting of the machine vision industry in Europe after the pandemic break. The conference will be held from May 12 to 14. The program is now complete.

EMVA and Khronos develop open, royalty-free camera API

The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) and the Khronos Group have formed a Khronos Working Group to develop an open, royalty-free API standard for camera system runtime control in the embedded, mobile, industrial, XR, automotive and scientific markets. Now calling on all Khronos members to participate.

EMVA webinar: Optical inspection in the automotive industry

How do you choose the right tool from the toolbox of algorithm-based machine vision, robotic imaging and AI for your own end-of-line optical inspection in the automotive industry? This question will be answered by the webinar next Thursday, December 9, 2022, which is part of the EMVA Spotlight Series.

EMVA Business Conference 2022 to be held in Brussels

The upcoming EMVA Business Conference 2022 will be held in Brussels, Belgium, May 12-14, 2022. The original venue in Sofia, Bulgaria, could not be kept due to the low vaccination rate there. Registration is now open.

EMVA Young Professional Award 2022 - apply now

The call for applications for the EMVA Young Professional Award 2022 has started. From now on, students and young professionals in machine vision can apply for the annual award. The winner will receive prize money and will have the opportunity to attend the upcoming EMVA conference in Brussels free of charge. Costs for flight and hotel will be covered.

A brilliant restart

For the first time in three years, the machine vision industry made its pilgrimage back to Stuttgart for Vision. It all took place on a smaller scale - fewer exhibitors and visitors than in 2018 - but the joy in view of the reunion outshone everything.

EMVA: The newly elected Board of Directors meets for the first time

At last, pandemic rules made it possible for the elected board members to gather for a constituent meeting on August 4 and 5, 2021, at the EMVA member Zeiss Automated Inspection Systems' facilities. Of course, everyone is double-vaccinated, the EMVA emphasizes.

Review: EMVA Business Conference Special Edition 2021

With a participation of 135 participants from 23 nations the 19th EMVA Business Conference Special Edition 2021 took place online. A total of 20 speeches, two fireside chats and two CEO/Management panel discussions covered virtually all current actual economic and technical topics that the machine vision world currently deals with. During the individual B2B sessions about 90 virtual bilateral video meetings were arranged between conference attendees before and after the conference program in the afternoons.

New Release 4.0 of EMVA 1288 Standard for Camera Characterization in Effect

The EMVA  announced that the new release 4.0 of the EMVA 1288 Standard for objective characterization of industrial cameras, which is successfully used worldwide, has become effective. The release takes into account the rapid development of camera and image sensor technology. The EMVA 1288 standard, hosted by EMVA, is part of the global G3 standardization initiative in which the five leading machine vision organizations A3, CMVU, EMVA, JIIA, and VDMA cooperate.

Release 4 of the EMVA Standard 1288 for Adequate Characterization of Modern Image Sensors and Cameras

The EMVA Standard 1288 for objective characterization of industrial cameras, which is successfully used worldwide, has a successor. The new Release 4.0 takes into account the rapid development of camera and image sensor technology. The release candidate was published on March 16, 2021 to come into effect three month later on June 16, 2021. A new module ‘Release 4.0 General’ has been added to characterize non-linear cameras or cameras with unknown pre-processing.

EMVA expert provides insight into what's new in the EMVA 1288 standard

He's back again! Also at this year's Wiley Industry Days (June 7-9, 2021), Prof. Dr. Bernd Jähne will give a presentation on the machine vision standard EMVA 1288.

Christoph Garbe becomes a member of the EMVA Board of Directors

The members elected Dr. Garbe to its board of directors, which promotes the interests and networking of European Machine Vision companies.

EMVA General Assembly Elects New Board of Directors

The General Assembly of the European Machine Vision Association (EMVA), due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions taking place in an online format June 1st, 2021, has elected the new EMVA Board of Directors.

Date for EMVA virtual general assembly fixed

Like the EMVA Business Conference, this year's General Assembly will take place in virtual space. In this context, the members will elect the new EMVA Board on the afternoon of June 1, 2021.

EMVA Business Conference 2021 takes place purely virtually

The EMVA is holding its annual Business Conference purely virtually this year, making it a "Special Edition 2021". Originally, it was to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria. It will now be taking place there from May 12 to 14, 2022.

EMVA and Khronos gather requirements for embedded standard

The European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) and Khronos Group established a joint Embedded Camera API Exploratory Group. The goal is to explore industry interest in creating open, royalty-free API standards for embedded camera and sensors. Participation is open to all interested sensor and camera manufacturers, chip providers, and software developers from the machine vision and sensor industries.

Arnaud Destruels is the new EMVA Vice President

EMVA survey: Sales collapse by 17 percent in 2020

EMVA: First online business conference was very successful

Virtual interactive 18th EMVA Business Conference starts on 26 June

Programm of EMVA Virtual Business Conference is online

EMVA Cancels European Machine Vision Forum for 2020

New Standard Initiatives Hosted by EMVA

EMVA conducts cancelled conference as online event

Annual EMVA Business Conference is cancelled for 2020

European Machine Vision Forum: Call for papers began

Chris Yates elected new EMVA President effective January 2020

The Standard EMVA 1288 for Camera Characterization: Update on Current Developments

EMVA Event Calendar 2020

Lakesight appoints new COO

Embedded Vision Europe 2019 (eVe) Conference: Final Report

Embedded Vision Europe 2019 Conference presents final Program

EMVA names Keynote speaker for Embedded VISION Europe

EMVA appoints new standards manager

EMVA Young Professional Award 2019

The 17th EMVA Business Conference was a great success

Dr. Bernd Liepert gives Opening Keynote at EMVA Business Conference 2019 in Copenhagen

European Machine Vision Forum 2019 announces Key Note Speakers

GenICam Chair and Vice-Chairs reelected

Call for Papers: EMVA Young Professional Award 2019

Embedded Vision Europe 2019: Top speakers can submit presentation proposals

Call For Papers: EMVA Young Professional Award 2019

EMVA awards Young Professional Award 2019

Dr. Dirk Berndt as EMVA representative elected in the Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders

Work on Embedded Vision Standard has started

EMVA Standards Manager died at age 39

International Vision Night 2018 on 05 November

Doris Antensteiner receives EMVA Young Professional Award 2018

3rd European Machine Vision Forum in Bologna

EMVA Announces Keynote Speaker at 16th EMVA Business Conference in Dubrovnik

Michal Czardybon confirms talk at EMVA Conference 2018

Call For Papers: EMVA Young Professional Award 2018

EMVA appoints Standards Manager

EMVA Market Report 2017 “Machine Vision in France” published

Premiere event of Embedded Vision Europe was great success

Alexey Myakov (Intel) will open EVE 2017 with his keynote

Raj Talluri (Qualcomm) gives Keynote at EVE 2017

Program of Embedded Vision Europe (EVE) Conference is online

Embedded Vision Europe (EVE): Key speakers and exhibitors are confirmed

David Moloney confirms talk at Embedded Vision Europe

Marco Jacobs presents at Embedded Vision Europe

Boaz Arad Receives EMVA Young Professional Award 2017

15th EMVA Business Conference brings together international machine vision players in Prague

Second EMVA Forum ‘Control Vision Talks’ for Machine Vision and Optical Metrology at Control 2017

Call For Papers: EMVA Young Professional Award 2017

Embedded Vision Europe – the Brand-New Conference

International Vision Night 2016

EMVA Market Report 2016 for UK and Ireland published

EMVA Business Conference 2016 with Keynote on Brexit

Call for contributions for first European Machine Vision Forum

14th EMVA Business Conference with over one hundred participants

GenApi 3.0 reference implementation released

EMVA Market Report 2015 published

Vision Russia Pavilion & Conference program and events

International machine vision industry prepares for spring meeting in Athens

International Vision Standards Meeting in London

EMVA-Networking Event in the heart of Stuttgart

EMVA exhibits again at Vision 2014

EMVA Market Report 2014 published

EMVA Business Conference again with over one hundred participants

EMVA Young Professional Award - Call for Papers

EMVA: GenICam 2.4 standard release with new features

Carl Zeiss and ATD joined the EMVA

Michel Ollivier joins EMVA Board

EMVA and AIA cooperate in the field of market research

Ruud Barth receives EMVA Young Professional Award 2013

Board of GenICam Standard Working Group re-elected

No Vision fair in 2013

EMVA appoints new General Manager

Taking a Close Look

EMVA-poll reveals positive business expectations

Jochem Herrmann to join EMVA Executive Committee

EMVA Business Conference 2013 takes place in Barcelona

EMVA: Two-digit growth in 2011

EMVA relocates secretariat

Toni Ventura-Traveset new EMVA President

Camera Interface: GenICam 2.2 Standard Released

Machine Vision: EMVA Published Market Study 2011

EMVA releases enhanced GenICam standard

Machine Vision in Europe Returns to Growth

European Vision Technology Market Statistics 2010 published

Machine Vision in Europe returns to growth

Next EMVA Business Conference to take place in Amsterdam

EMVA Business Conference Programme now published

GenICam 2.0 Standard launched

Cor Maas new EMVA Vice President

Vision 2009 Presents International Machine Vision Standards

Mats Gökstorp new EMVA President