May 9, 2025, Atul Ingle
Counterpoint Research's CIS reportGlobal Smartphone CIS Shipments Climb 2% YoY in 2024Samsung is no longer in the top-3 smartphone CIS suppliers. Global smartphone image sensor shipments rose 2% YoY to 4.4 billion units in 2024.Meanwhile, the average number of cameras per smartphone declined further to 3.7 units in 2024 from 3.
May 1, 2025, Atul Ingle
Sony SSSpeculationsSeveral news sources are repeating a Bloomberg report that Sony is considering partially spinning off its semiconductor business.https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sony-reportedly-mulling-semiconductor-unit-155046940.
April 28, 2025, Atul Ingle
Lecture on fundamentals of CMOS image sensors The Fundamentals of CMOS Image Sensors with Richard Crisp This video provides a sneak peek of "CMOS Image Sensors: Technology, Applications, and Camera Design Methodology," an SPIE course taught by imaging systems expert Richard Crisp.
April 25, 2025, Atul Ingle
Hamamatsu SPAD tutorial SPAD and SPAD Arrays: Theory, Practice, and Applications The video is a comprehensive webinar on Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) and SPAD arrays, addressing their theory, applications, and recent advancements.
April 21, 2025, Atul Ingle
ICCP 2024 Keynote on Event Cameras In this keynote held at the 2024 International Conference on Computational Photography, Prof.
April 10, 2025, Gordon Laing
Fujifilm GFX100RF reviewThe Fujifilm GFX100RF is a fixed lens rangefinder-styled camera with a 102 Megapixel medium format sensor. It essentially packs the quality of the GFX100S II with a fixed 28mm equiv lens into a body that’s more akin to a slightly chunkier X100.
April 2, 2025, Gordon Laing
Panasonic Lumix S1R II reviewThe Panasonic Lumix S1R II is a high-end full-frame mirrorless camera with a 44 Megapixel BSI sensor and 8k video.
March 20, 2025, Atul Ingle
Paper on RGBC-IR color filter arrayTripurari Singh, Image Algorithmics (US); Mritunjay Singh, Image Algorithmics presented a paper titled "RGBC-IR: A CFA for single exposure dark flash" at Electronic Imaging 2025.Abstract: Modern RGB-IR cameras have evolved to capture accurate colors and NIR from a single sensor.
March 13, 2025, Dave
Conference List - July 202510th International Smart Sensor Technology Exhibition - 2-4 July 2025 - Goyang, South Korea - Website26th International Workshop on Radiation Detectors - 6-10 July 2025 - Bratislava, Slovakia - WebsiteIEEE Sensors Applications Symposium - 8-10 July 2025 - Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Websit...
March 11, 2025, Gordon Laing
Canon PowerShot V1 reviewThe Canon PowerShot V1 is a fixed lens compact with a large 22 Megapixel sensor and 16-50 equivalent zoom. It's aimed at video creators who want a step-up over the G7X series.
March 10, 2025, Dave
Conference List - May 2025CLEO - Congress on Lasers and Electro-Optics - 4-9 May 2025 - Long Beach, California, USA - WebsiteSensor+Test - 6-8 May 2025 - Nuremberg, Germany - WebsiteAutomate - 12-15 May 2025 - Detroit, Michigan, USA - WebsiteQuantum Photonics Conference, Networking and Trade Exhibition - 13-14 May 2025 ...
February 19, 2025, Atul Ingle
IISW 2025 preliminary technical program available New! IISW25 Technical Program (preliminary): Link Venue: Awaji Yumebutai Int. Conf. Center, Hyogo, Japan.Date: 2–5 June, 2025 New! Pre-registration information: LinkAuthors can find the Paper Numbers or Poster Numbers in the Program to complete the required pre-registration.
February 12, 2025, Atul Ingle
IISW 2025 pre-registration is open!TLDR; Register as soon as possible starting February 17, as the number of attendees is limited! IISW 2025 Announcement of Pre-registration The 2025 International Image Sensor Workshop (IISW) provides a biennial opportunity to present innovative work in the area of solid-state image sensor...
February 10, 2025, Thomas
Nikon Z 35mm f1.2 S reviewThe Z 35mm f1.2 S completes Nikon's trio of f1.2 lenses and is also their third 35mm lens. How does it compare in features and optical performance? Find out in my full review.
February 3, 2025, Atul Ingle
19th edition of Image Sensors Europe to feature leading experts from across the supply chain
More than 250
key stakeholders from across the image sensors industry will convene in London 18-19th
March for the 19th edition of Smithers’ renowned Image Sensors
Europe conference.
January 29, 2025, Atul Ingle
Prophesee files for insolvency [Updated]Source: https://sifted.eu/articles/startups-went-bust-2024 French deeptech Prophesee developed advanced ‘neuromorphic’ computer vision technology — meaning that it aimed to imitate the structure and function of the human brain and eye.
January 27, 2025, Dave
Conference List - March 202521st Annual Device Packaging Conference - 3-6 March 2025 - Phoenix, Arizona, USA - WebsiteLaser World of Photonics China - 11-13 March 2025 - Shanghai, China - WebsiteImage Sensors Europe - 18-19 March 2025 - London, UK - WebsiteMEMS & Sensors Technical Conference - 26-27 March 2025 - ...
May 7, 2025, Atul Ingle
IS&T EI 2025 plenary talk on imaging and AI This plenary presentation was delivered at the Electronic Imaging Symposium held in Burlingame, CA over 2-6 February 2025. For more information see: http://www.electronicimaging.
April 30, 2025, Atul Ingle
Paper on pixel reverse engineering techniqueIn an ArXiV preprint titled "Multi-Length-Scale Dopants Analysis of an Image Sensor via Focused Ion Beam-Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry and Atom Probe Tomography", Guerguis et al write:The following article presents a multi-length-scale characterization approach for investigating doping chemistry a...
April 28, 2025, Gordon Laing
Sigma 300-600mm f4 DG OS reviewThe Sigma 300-600mm f4 DG OS is a bright aperture, super-tele zoom aimed at high-end sports and wildlife photographers. Available in Sony e and L mounts, it costs around half that of 600 f4 primes from the big names while also zooming-out to 300mm.
April 23, 2025, Atul Ingle
Speculation about Samsung exiting CIS business?Recent speculative news article suggest that Samsung is weighing exiting CIS business after recent exit by SK Hynix.News source: https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20250312PD213/cis-samsung-sk-hynix-business-lsi.
April 18, 2025, Atul Ingle
Sony releases SPAD-based depth sensorFrom PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/04/15/sony-unveils-the-worlds-smallest-and-lightest-lidar-depth-sensor/Sony announced the AS-DT1, the world’s smallest and lightest miniature precision LiDAR depth sensor.Measuring a mere 29 by 29 by 31 millimeters (1.14 by 1.14 by 1.
April 9, 2025, Gordon Laing
Fujifilm instax mini 41 reviewThe instax mini 41 is Fujifilm’s latest camera to use their hugely popular instax mini film. It's based on the fully analogue mini 12, but reskinned in a more serious-looking, technical body.
March 31, 2025, Gordon Laing
Feisol TT-224 mini tripod reviewThe Feisol TT-224 is a table-top tripod now with extending legs. Launched in early 2025, it’s the follow-up to the TT-15 Mark II, one of my favourite mini tripods and a constant companion on my travels.
March 20, 2025, Dave
Conference List - September 2025IEEE 2025 International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems - 2-4 September 2025 - College Station, Texas, USA - WebsiteIEEE European Solid-State Electronics Research Conference - 8-11 September 2025 - Munich, Germany - WebsiteIEEE International Conference on Sen...
March 13, 2025, Atul Ingle
IDS launches new industrial camera series featuring PropheseePARIS, France and OBERSULM, Germany – March 5, 2025 - IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH, market leader in industrial machine vision, and Prophesee SA, inventor of the most advanced neuromorphic vision systems, today announced that IDS’ new uEye EVS camera line incorporates the high-spee...
March 11, 2025, Atul Ingle
SK hynix plans to exit CMOS image sensor businessVarious news agencies reporting that SK hynix is exiting the CIS business to focus on AI.https://www.trendforce.
February 24, 2025, Atul Ingle
International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2025 call for papersICCP is the premier annual conference on computational imaging.
February 17, 2025, Atul Ingle
TriEye SWIR machine vision solutions Discover TriEye's high-performance SWIR-based machine vision solutions, designed to enhance visibility and accuracy across various applications. This webinar explores the unique capabilities of SWIR (Short-Wave Infrared) technology and its impact on machine vision systems.
February 12, 2025, Atul Ingle
Lucid Vision Labs tech report on IMX636 and IMX637Link: https://thinklucid.com/tech-briefs/triton2-evs-explained-optimizing-event-based-imaging/Lucid Vision Labs has published an in-depth article on their analysis of the bias and threshold features of Sony's IMX636 and IMX637 event-based sensors.
February 7, 2025, Atul Ingle
Videos of the day: ST, LYNRED, Teledyne/FLIR, ams OSRAM ST's Ultra Low Power Image Sensor VD55G1 LYNRED Eyesential SW, VGA 10 µm pitch SWIR imaging sensor, provides leading-edge performance in sensitivity, low noise and ease-of-use for machine vision, scientific imaging and spectroscopy, where delivering affordability is key Teledyne/FLI...
February 1, 2025, Dave
Conference List - April 2025Compound Semiconductor International Conference - 7-9 April 2025 - Brussels.
January 28, 2025, Atul Ingle
ISP development short course at Electronic Imaging 202510xEngineers invites the Imaging and Vision community to attend a Short Course on Infinite-ISP, the open-source hardware image signal processor development package at Electronic Imaging 2025.
January 27, 2025, Atul Ingle
Canon announces 410MP full-frame sensorPress release: https://global.canon/en/news/2025/20250122.htmlCanon develops CMOS sensor with 410 megapixels, the largest number of pixels ever achieved in a 35 mm full-frame sensorTOKYO, January 22, 2025— Canon Inc.
May 5, 2025, Atul Ingle
Brillnics mono-IR global shutter sensorMiyauchi et al. from Brillnics Inc., Japan published a paper titled "A 3.96-μm, 124-dB Dynamic-Range, Digital-Pixel Sensor With Triple- and Single-Quantization Operations for Monochrome and Near-Infrared Dual-Channel Global Shutter Operation" in IEEE JSSC (May 2025).
April 30, 2025, Atul Ingle
Paper on pixel reverse engineering techniqueIn an ArXiV preprint titled "Multi-Length-Scale Dopants Analysis of an Image Sensor via Focused Ion Beam-Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry and Atom Probe Tomography", Guerguis et al write:The following article presents a multi-length-scale characterization approach for investigating doping chemistry a...
April 25, 2025, Atul Ingle
3D effects in time-delay integration sensor pixelsGuo et al. from Changchun Institute of Optics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Gpixel Inc. published a paper titled "Study on 3D Effects on Small Time Delay Integration Image Sensor Pixels" in Sensors.
April 22, 2025, Gordon Laing
Sony FE 50-150mm f2 GM reviewThe Sony FE 50-150mm f2 G Master is a bright telephoto zoom that’ll delight portrait, event and close range sports photographers.
April 17, 2025, Dave
Conference List - October 2025ASNT Annual Conference - 6-9 October 2025 - Orlando, Florida, USA - WebsiteScientific Detector Workshop 6-10 October 2025 - Canberra, Australia - WebsiteAutoSens Europe - 7-9 October 2025 - Barcelona, Spain - WebsiteSPIE/COS Photonics Asia - 12-14 October 2025 - Beijing...
April 4, 2025, Gordon Laing
Sigma BF review so farThe Sigma BF is a stylish mirrorless camera with a 24 Megapixel full-frame sensor and L-mount, packed into a body milled from a single block of aluminium.
March 27, 2025, Gordon Laing
Canon EOS R50 V reviewThe Canon EOS R50 V is a mirrorless camera aimed at video creators who want a compact body with interchangeable lenses. It will take photos too, but it’s mostly designed for video.
March 19, 2025, Dave
Conference List - August 2025Low Temperature Quantum Detectors - 3-6 August 2025 - Helsinki, Finland - WebsiteSPIE Optics & Photonics - 3-7 Aug 2025 - San Diego, California, USA - WebsiteVERTEX 2025: 33rd International Workshop on Vertex Detectors - 25-29 August 2025 - Knoxville, Tennessee, USA - WebsiteBNL Physics and Dete...
March 11, 2025, Gordon Laing
Canon PowerShot 350 retro reviewThe PowerShot 350 was Canon's second digicam, launched in 1997 and sporting one third of a Megapixel and a tilting screen! But who actually made it? Find out the story in my retro review!…
March 10, 2025, Dave
Conference List - June 2025Low-Temperature Detectors Conference - 1-6 June 2025 - Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA - WebsiteInternational Image Sensor Workshop - 2-5 June 2025 - Hyogo, Japan - WebsiteSymposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits - 8-12 June 2025 - Kyoto, Japan - WebsiteAutoSens USA 2025 - 10-12 June 2025 - Detroit, Mich...
February 21, 2025, Atul Ingle
Future of Image Sensors: IS&T Rochester NY chapter talk by John McCartenThe Future of Image Sensors, John McCartenJohn McCarten presented a talk as part of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) Rochester NY chapter seminar series on 22 Jan. 2025.John McCarten studied Physics at Cornell University and currently works for L3Harris.
February 14, 2025, Atul Ingle
Improving color sensitivity in low light using nano-prisms, light pillars, and color splittersA recent article in IEEE Spectrum discusses three approaches to improve color throughput in low-light settings: nano-prisms, light pillars, and color splitters.Link: https://spectrum.ieee.
February 10, 2025, Atul Ingle
Gpixel announces large format image sensor 16.8MPLink: https://www.vision-systems.com/cameras-accessories/image-sensors/article/55264400/gpixel-launches-new-large-format-image-sensorGpixel Launches New Large Format Image SensorSensor especially designed for physical science, astronomy vision applications.
February 6, 2025, Gordon Laing
OM System OM-3 reviewThe OM System OM-3 is a compact weather-sealed camera based on Micro Four Thirds with a 20.4 Megapixel stacked sensor.
January 31, 2025, Atul Ingle
SiOnyx vs Apple iPhone15 lawsuitLink: https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/01/09/apple-fights-patent-lawsuit-over-iphone-15-camera-techIn September, Apple was the target of a patent infringement lawsuit from SiOnyx, for allegedly encroaching on patents for full-color night vision imaging sensors.
January 27, 2025, Gordon Laing
Fujifilm instax Wide Evo reviewThe instax Wide Evo is a digital camera with a built-in instant printer designed for the largest instax format. It's Fujifilm's most grown-up instant camera and one of the most fun to use too.
