Vision Systems Industry Links

Industry Links

• 1394 Trade Association gives latest news, products, technical specs, and working groups on FireWire products.
  (www.1394ta.org)
• Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility promotes global standards and growth of identification technologies such as RFID and barcoding
  (http://www.aimglobal.org/)
• Automated Imaging Association (AIA) offers membership benefits, resources, technical articles, and events.
  (http://www.machinevisiononline.org)
• British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) provides a national forum for individuals and organizations involved in machine vision, image processing, and pattern recognition in the United Kingdom.
  (http://www.bmva.ac.uk)
• CV Homepage at Carnegie Mellon provides resources and information about computer vision research, listings of Computer Vision groups,CV hardware,CV software,demos,test images and CV conferences
  (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/cil/ftp/html/vision.html)
• ERCIM-the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics aims to foster collaborative work within the European research community and to increase cooperation with European industry.
  (www.ercim.org)
• EUTIST-IMV, the European Commission supported initiative, has more than 80 industrial and academic partners and develops solutions for machine vision problems.
  (http://www.eutist-imv.com)
• European Machine Vision Association (EMVA) site provides information on machine vision: technology trends, application examples, and company profiles.
  (http://emva.org)
• Japan Industrial Imaging Association (JIIA) - provides news, products, technical specs, and image processing standards - in Japanese only
  (www.jiia.org)
• Machine Vision Portal, written in English and German, features news, articles, a buyers guide, and an on-line news-submission feature for all those involved in machine vision.
  (www.machine-vision.de/portal/)
• PCI-SIG is all about PCI Express, offering data on compliance testing, specifications, a technical library, press releases, and PCI-SIG membership.
  (www.pcisig.com/specifications/pciexpress)
• PEIPA, an archive relating to image processing and analysis, emphasizes computer vision and provides information, datasets, and software that allow the effectiveness of algorithms to be measured.
  (http://peipa.essex.ac.uk)
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers--SME Forums are designed to provide an international electronic bulletin board to facilitate the exchange of manufacturing information
  (http://www.sme.org/cgi-bin/membhtml.pl?/html/joinsme.htm&&&SME&)
• UK Imaging Faraday Partnership brings research, products, and processes to commercial markets, with special emphasis on the application of electronic imaging systems.
  (www.imagingfp.org.uk)
• UK Industrial Vision Association (UKIVA) promotes the use of vision technology by manufacturing industry in the UK.
  (http://www.ukiva.org)
• Vision Club of Finland (VCF), established in 1995, promotes machine-vision theory, technological development, and industrial applications.
  (http://www.automaatioseura.fi/index/english.php?id=5c96c90b)