Events 2022

One of the most important multidisciplinary European events presenting research results, covering the latest technologies in optics and photonics - from digital optics and quantum technologies to optical imaging, sensing and metrology. Other topics include THz photonics, 3D-printed optics, photonic eyewear, photosensitive materials and biophotonics.

The Department of Visual Inspection Systems is represented with a poster contribution:

Visual inspection via anomaly detection by automated uncertainty propagation 

Authors: Johannes Meyer, Matthias Hartrumpf, Thomas Längle, Jürgen Beyerer

The symposium will present papers from industry and academia showing new developments and applications in the field of sensor-based sorting and process control, along the entire process chain from extraction to processing, for primary and secondary raw materials.

The department Visual Inspection Systems will be involved with a presentation:

Systematic Determination of the Influence of Factors Relevant to Operating Costs of Sensor-based Sorting Systems

Jan Ludwig on 04/13/2022 at 3:30 pm

The most important international trade event for all topics relating to measuring and testing technology as well as vision technology, image processing and sensor technology is the annual Control trade fair in Stuttgart.

Machine Learning as a Key Technology for Quality Assurance with Image Processing  

This year, Fraunhofer IOSB and its Visual Inspection Systems department will present the exhibit Purity - Quality Inspection of Transparent Objects. The presented inspection technology currently deals with the challenge in industrial image processing - the detection of inclusions and air bubbles in arbitrarily shaped transparent materials.

Joint booth of the Fraunhofer Vision Business Unit

We would like to invite you to get an overview of the new developments of the Fraunhofer Business Unit Vision and the exhibits at the joint booth of the Fraunhofer Business Unit Vision. Visit us: Hall 6; booth no. 6301. Your contact person: Christian Kludt

The EMVA Conference unites business leaders and technical experts within the machine vision industry from Europe and around the world to present and discuss the trends and challenges of our business. It provides a unique platform in Europe for networking, establishing contacts and exchanging ideas.

Our team is involved in the Panel Discussion:

Non-Visible Imaging: What is the path to mass-market adoption and which applications are key?

Johannes Meyer, on 05/13/2022 at 4:10 pm

ICSE is the largest and best known international conference on spectroscopic ellipsometry and related techniques. New advances and developments in ellipsometry are discussed with a large number of international participants from many different countries.

Our team is involved with a contribution:

Retroreflex ellipsometry for isotropic three-phase systems with nonplanar surfaces

Authors: Chia-Wei Chen, Matthias Hartrumpf, Thomas Längle, Jürgen Beyerer

Digitization and sustainability - these are the key topics of the world's most important industrial trade fair, setting clear impulses for the transformation of business and industry - towards digitized, climate-neutral and sustainable value creation.

AutoInspect –digital 3D twin for systematic sensor deployment planning and sensor data fusion

The exhibit, in which the Visual Inspection Systems department is involved, exemplifies an infrastructure solution that combines various inspection methods such as ellipsometry or deflectometry and merges the recorded features with metadata with pinpoint accuracy on a 3D model of the test specimen - in this case a car body. On this basis, a wide range of evaluations are possible, from simple statistics to AI/ML methods. The principle is explained in detail at the trade fair booth - a live link to the Karlsruhe research factory shows the current status of our solution.

This exhibit can be found at the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft joint booth. Visit us: hall 5, booth A061.
Your contact person: Henning Schulte

IASIM conference provides an open, interdisciplinary, and interactive forum for the exchange of information and ideas from all areas of spectral imaging (microscopic, macroscopic, remote sensing) and a variety of spectroscopic techniques.

Our participation with a poster contribution:

Bayesian Optimization for Channel Selection for Multispectral Imaging in Plant Status Monitoring

Author: Petra Schumacher

At this year's world's leading trade fair for the process industry, ACHEMA, the joint stand of the Fraunhofer Alliance for the Leading Market in Chemistry, consisting of a total of 15 Fraunhofer Institutes, is presenting itself.

We are represented with our miniature bulk material sorting system TableSort^®. It serves as an example of a smart factory system that sorts plastic waste, as part of the Fraunhofer lead project Waste4Future.

Visit us at the Frankfurt trade fair in Hall 6.0, Stand A52.
Your contact: Georg Maier

We will be happy to provide interested parties and business partners with a free one-day ticket, via visitor codes.

The aim of the conference is to meet, discuss and collaborate to present and apply new sensors, systems and solutions for multimodal photonic sensing enabling developments in measurement and quality assurance for industry, forestry and life sciences. And this will take place over 2 days, in 4 thematic blocks with 28 papers.

We are represented with a presentation:

Higher quality in plastic recycling by innovations in sorting systems

Thomas Längle, on 07/09/2022 on 2:30 pm

The VISION 2022 trade fair in Stuttgart is the international trade fair for industrial image processing and identification technologies. Here we are participating this time as a cluster partner on the community stadium of SpectroNet and present the Karlsruhe Center for Material Signatures-KCM. This is an association of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology-KIT and the business unit Inspection and Optronic Systems of Fraunhofer IOSB. Every 2 years the KCM organizes the events Image Processing Forum and the OCM Conference. 

Visit us in Stuttgart in hall 10/booth C16.
Your contact person: Henning Schulte

The Technology Day of the Fraunhofer Vision Business Unit offers an overview of the spectrum of practice-relevant technologies in image processing and optical metrology and reflects the current state of the art. In addition, realized applications will be described and emerging future perspectives will be highlighted. What to expect: 

• Short presentations
• Accompanying exhibition
• Exchange of experiences with experts

We are participating with a presentation:

Light Field Inspection-light field based light source for flexible use

Christian Kludt

A sustainable society, the renunciation of fossil raw materials, climate-neutral processes - the chemical industry has committed itself to these goals. For the industry, this means a huge challenge within the next few years and decades. Researchers from a total of seven Fraunhofer Institutes are pooling their expertise in the lead project "Waste4Future" to make these goals tangible. At the "K trade fair", the team of experts will show how new possibilities for recycling can be created and, at the same time, how high-quality starting materials can be produced as a "green" resource for the chemical industry.

We are represented with our miniature bulk material sorting system TableSort^®. It serves as an example of a smart factory system that sorts plastic waste.

Visit us at the Fraunhofer booth, hall 7, SC01-3.
Your contact person Georg Maier

Every year, the EMVA hosts the two-day forum where the machine vision industry and academic research meet to learn from each other, learn about the latest research results and open application problems, learn about new and emerging application fields and discuss new research collaborations.

Our participation with two presentations:

Ligth Field Inspection

Christian Kludt

Automated propagation of uncertainties through image processing pipelines for visual inspection

Johannes Meyer

Already for the 16th time representatives from science and industry meet to discuss current waste management and waste technology topics. The current conference topics and the quality of the lectures have made Recy & DepoTech known far beyond the Austrian borders. 

We are represented with a lecture. It is assigned to the topic block, Deep Learning and Co. in Sorting Technology:

Sensor-based characterization of construction waste at high occupancy densities using Deep Learning.

Felix Kronenwett the 10/11/2022 at 10:55 am

Image processing plays a key role in many areas of technology for fast and contactless data acquisition. For example, in the quality assurance of industrial production processes, in robotics and for driver assistance, image processing systems have gained an indispensable place. This development is supported by the availability of high-quality and inexpensive sensor systems, by the increase in the performance of computer systems, and by advances in the methodology for evaluating image data.

The "Image Processing forum" aims to report on current trends towards solutions in image processing and to contribute to the professional exchange between the participants.

Image Processing for Surfaces - Advances in technology not only enable ever higher inspection speeds and more compact systems, but also, in addition to the evaluation of two-dimensionally recorded textures, the complete recording of complex 3D surface structures down to the nanometer range. Furthermore, the rapid evaluation of colored, patterned, transparent, highly reflective or mirroring surfaces is possible. In the seminar, different inspection and analysis methods will be presented for this purpose.

We are involved with the following contributions:

Image acquisition in surface inspection

Thomas Längle, at 07/12/2022 on 9:15 am

Theorie und Methoden der Farbmessung

Robin Gruna, at 07/12/2022 on 10:15 am

Internship station with:

Inspection of transparent materials

Christian Kludt, at 08/12/2022 on 11:15 am to 3:00 pm