INSIDER: Imaging
3D Hand Pose Estimation Achieved Using a Wrist-Worn Camera
Researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) working in collaboration with colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of St Andrews and the University...
Briefs: Imaging
Virtual and Augmented Reality Device Simulates Vision Loss
Products: Imaging
New Products: November 2020 Photonics & Imaging Technology
Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Model Recovers Data Lost from Images and Video in Low Dimensions
Products: Electronics & Computers
New on the Market: June 2020
Blog: Test & Measurement
As Fewer Planes Take Off, NASA's Pandora Sensors Measure Airport Air Quality
An empty airport tells you more than you might think.
Facility Focus: Electronics & Computers
Facility Focus: NASA Ames Research Center
Products: AR/AI
Product of the Month: February 2020 Tech Briefs
Imagine a fleet of 100 Hubble Space Telescopes, deployed in a strategic space-invader-shaped array a million miles from Earth, scanning the universe at...
NASA Spinoff: Aerospace
Image-Analysis Software Sees Cancer in 3D
Spinoff is NASA's annual publication featuring successfully commercialized NASA technology. This commercialization has contributed to the development of products and services in the fields of health...
NASA Spinoff: Software
Apollo 11 History Archive Helps Virtual Reality Program Come to Life
Spinoff is NASA’s annual publication featuring successfully commercialized NASA technology. This commercialization has contributed to the development of products and...
Briefs: Imaging
Face-Tracking Robot
A robot is being developed that tracks facial movements to perform human tasks. The robot resembles large, squiggly arms holding tiny cameras. Sitting in a rolling office chair across from one of the arms, the robot's...
Application Briefs: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Automotive Lidar Trends
Real-time 3D lidar is poised to be the third leg of the trifecta of sensor technologies enabling both advanced driver-assistance (ADAS) and autonomous vehicles. The other two pieces are cameras and radar. David Hall,...
Blog: Robotics, Automation & Control
With Embedded App, 'Anyone Can Program Robots'
Briefs: Software
Design Software Identifies a Product's Performance Tradeoffs
Designing any product — from complex car parts to wrenches — is a balancing act with conflicting performance tradeoffs. Making something lightweight, for instance, may compromise its durability.
Briefs: Test & Measurement
Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) of Structures Using Transient and Lock-in Thermography
Researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center improved their Flash Thermography capabilities by incorporating transient and lock-in thermography. By...
Briefs: Software
Optimal Computational Vision Pipeline (OCVP)
Optimal Computational Vision Pipeline (OCVP) software uses a novel algorithm that allows overlapping point clouds obtained from sensors with displaced position and orientation to be fused together in a common coordinate system with a rigorously linear solution for position and orientation parameters;...
Briefs: Imaging
New X-Ray Scanning Method Reveals How Particles Move in Solution
A new method of X-ray scanning will allow for the visualization of many more biological molecules, providing critical information about what is inside molecules to scientists...
The ability to fly at supersonic speed without producing unsettling sonic booms would re-open a path to faster commercial aviation. In pursuit of aerodynamics that...
Products: Imaging
New on the Market: December 2018
The USB-1808 Series simultaneous-sampling data acquisition devices from Measurement Computing Corp., Norton, MA, provides synchronous and concurrent voltage I/O, waveform...
Briefs: Imaging
Super-Resolution Image Reconstruction (SRIR)
Many low-cost sensors (or cameras) may spatially or electronically under-sample an image. Similarly, cameras taking pictures from great distances, such as aerial photos, may not obtain detailed...
Blog: Imaging
How Will VR and AR Impact Automotive Manufacturers?
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
NASA at 60: From Space to Earth
The benefits of NASA's space exploration efforts are not limited to the cosmos. NASA technologies provide innovative solutions for people around the world. NASA missions have generated thousands of spinoffs...
INSIDER Product: Imaging
New Products: September 2018 Photonics & Imaging Insider
Teledyne e2v (Chelmsford, UK) has announced Snappy 2 megapixel, a new CMOS image sensor designed for barcode reading and other 2D scanning applications. The...
Articles: Imaging
How Augmented Reality Will Disrupt the Manufacturing Industry
Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are in the same vein when it comes to modern technology. Both deal with digital content relayed through an immersive environment or...
Articles: Sensors/Data Acquisition
Principles of Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopes
Today’s high-resolution laser scanning confocal microscopes (LSCM), also referred to simply as laser scanning microscopes, are powerful high-magnification surface metrology instruments with...
Application Briefs: Software
Guiding the Way in Automotive Plants
Vision-guided robotics commonly used in today's automotive plants enables robots to “see” the object they are working on so they can perform the required activity accurately on/to an object that is...
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