Standard for Measurement and Presentation of Specifications for Machine Vision Sensors and Cameras

Choosing the suitable camera for a given machine vision application often proves to be a challenging task. The data sheets provided by the manufacturers are difficult to compare. Frequently, vital pieces of information are not available and the user is forced to conduct a costly comparative test which still may fail to deliver all relevant camera parameters. This is where the EMVA 1288 Standard comes in. It creates transparency by defining reliable and exact measurement procedures as well as data presentation guidelines and makes the comparison of cameras and image sensors much easier.
EMVA has launched an initiative to define a unified method to measure, compute and present specification parameters for cameras and image sensors used for machine vision applications. Application of this standard will be at the benefit of the customers of vision components component manufacturers. It will avoid misunderstanding and reduce pre and post support cycles.

The Standard is elaborated by a consortium of the Industry leading Sensor and Camera manufacturers, Distributers and component customers. The Standard is organized in a Modular Approach. The first Module was officially released by the working group Member companies in August 2005. Now the extended version 3.0 has been released.

 

For more information about the standard please click above on the EMVA 1288TM Downloads link. Presentations given during an open workshop at VISION 2006 can also be found in this section.

 

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2nd June 2010

New Version 3.0 to be released soon

The preliminary new version 3.0 of the EMVA 1288 was already presented at the Industrial Vision Days at the Vision 2009 in Stuttgart. For the first time, four companies (AEON Image Processing, APHESA, Image Engineering, and Sarnoff Corporation) demonstrated equipment to perform measurements according to the EMVA 1288 standard. This clearly expresses the growing international interest in this standard. The preparation of the release of version 3.0 of the standard was already an international effort. An extensive comparative test was performed. Six cameras were sent around and measured in laboratories worldwide. This effort helped a great deal to make the standard an easy to use and trustable procedure. The final release 3.0 is currently being finalized and will be publicly available soon.

The final release 3.0 will have been considerably extended beyond release 2. New will be the inclusion of color cameras and defect pixel characterization. Further on, the standard is planned to include specifications for trigger delay and jitter and to be expanded to include non-linear cameras and special camera types such as time-of-flight (TOF) cameras. 

2nd November 2009

Learn more about the EMVA 1288 standard at the Industrial VISION Days 2009!

At the special exhibition on International Machine Vision Standards you can find out how the standard simplify the application of vision technology, ask experts, talk to the developers of standards, and see the standard in action.

Several companies will demonstrate equipment to measure camera parameters according to the EMVA 1288 standard.

Hall 6, B 73 (next to the Industrial VISION Days Forum)

 

 
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