Menu home contact newsletter search twitter Down arrow to navigate to the rest of the homepage Tech Summit Search the website The Vision Lab Home > Our services > Services and facilities > The Vision Lab Develop innovative imaging solutions The Vision Lab is a dedicated facility in our Glasgow office, helping businesses adopt or deliver innovative computer vision or imaging solutions. Broadly speaking, machine vision is any computation involving visual content – images, videos, anything with pixels involved. It’s the process of using machines to see, identify, analyse and understand imagery. Any application that involves understanding pixels through software can be labelled as computer vision. Computational processing of images has been around in some format since the 1960s. But recent advances in machine learning as well as leaps forward in data storage, computing capabilities and cheap, high-quality imaging devices have led to major improvements and new opportunities. Commercial uses The core techniques of computer vision, all of which have developed significantly in recent years, are: Event detection Object recognition Object tracking Motion estimation Image classification 3D reconstruction Imaging systems Read more about our expertise in imaging systems. Vision Lab video PLAY VIDEO Applications These techniques can be used for many different applications in different environments, with the result that computer vision technology is well on the way to being ubiquitous: Autonomous vehicles Navigation, control, route planning, obstacle detection, traffic sign detection The human face Personal device access, targeted advertising, surveillance, biometrics, photo tagging Gaming Gesture recognition and control, vision-based user inputs, action recognition, eye tracking Manufacturing Predictive maintenance, package inspection, reading barcodes, track and trace, handwriting analysis Medical Images 3D visualisation and animation, 3D image segmentation, tumour detection, medical diagnosis methods Remote sensing Land use recognition and identification, multi sensor fusion, crop detection, atmospheric visibility, pollution monitoring Surveillance Object detection, recognition and tracking, people counting, crime prevention, home security Transport Pedestrian detection, driver monitoring, lane alert, parking assistance, video-based tolling, number plate recognition, traffic surveillance. Our capabilities The hardware and software in the Vision Lab strengthens our technical capabilities in computer vision and related fields, and includes: Development kits For image sensing, machine learning 3D time of flight sensors For industrial machine vision applications Cameras For embedded vision applications PCs – custom built and optimised For image processing, machine vision and applications that require high processing speed MVTec Halcon A comprehensive standard software package for machine vision industries, with capabilities in areas such as analysis, matching, measuring, identification, 3D vision and deep learning algorithms. News and views on imaging CENSIS Vision Lab Helen Sandison Automated detection technology CENSIS, University of West of Scotland | Thales UK The smart farm: imaging systems and IoT for precision agriculture applications 9 October 2019 Talk to us We see lots of opportunities to use the lab for projects in image processing, machine vision, object detection and tracking, embedded vision, motion sensing, and machine learning. In addition to helping companies develop new services or enhance existing products, we are interested in supporting non-technology organisations implement visioning technologies in the workplace. Tell us about your imaging challenges, help us shape our workshop programme, and guide us in providing a service that will be useful to you. View our projects Talk to CENSIS The CENSIS host institution and administrative hub is the University of Glasgow. The University of Glasgow, Charity Number SC004401 Address Inovo Building 3rd Floor 121 George Street Glasgow G1 1RD Contact us +44 (0)141 330 3876 Contact Us Funders Scottish Enterprise Highlands and Islands Enterprise Scottish Funding Council In partnership with Scotland’s colleges and universities CENSIS Media Library Brochures Photographs Videos Newsletter Sign-up Sign-up to our e-Newsletter to stay up-to-date with the latest event announcements and developments at CENSIS. Sign up now © CENSIS 2021Privacy PolicyAccessibilityContact UsVacanciesWebsite by Infinite Eye