July 13, 2025, Atul Ingle
Single-photon computer vision workshop @ ICCV 2025📸✨ Join us at ICCV 2025 for our workshop on Computer Vision with Single-Photon Cameras (CVSPC)!🗓️ Sunday, Oct 19th, 8:15am-12:30pm at the Hawai'i Convention Center🔗 Full Program: https://cvspc.cs.pdx.
July 9, 2025, Atul Ingle
Hamamatsu webinar on SPAD and SPAD arrays The video is a comprehensive webinar on Single Photon Avalanche Diodes (SPADs) and SPAD arrays, addressing their theory, applications, and recent advancements.
July 4, 2025, Atul Ingle
ETH Zurich and Empa develop perovskite image sensorIn a new paper in Nature, a team from ETH Zurich and Empa have demonstrated a new lead halide perovskite thin-film photodetector.Tsarev et al., "Vertically stacked monolithic perovskite colour photodetectors, " Nature (2025)Open access paper link: https://www.nature.
June 30, 2025, Atul Ingle
MIPI C-PHY v3.0 upgrades data ratesNews: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250507526963/en/MIPI-C-PHY-v3.
June 27, 2025, Atul Ingle
TechInsights blog on Samsung's hybrid bond image sensorLink: https://www.techinsights.com/blog/samsung-unveils-first-imager-featuring-hybrid-bond-technologyIn a recent breakthrough discovery by TechInsights, the Samsung GM5 imager, initially thought to be a standard back-illuminated CIS, has been revealed to feature a pioneering hybrid bond design.
June 20, 2025, Atul Ingle
Sony IMX479 520-pixel SPAD LiDAR sensorPress release: https://www.sony-semicon.com/en/news/2025/2025061001.
June 16, 2025, Atul Ingle
Zaber application note on image sensors for microscopyFull article link: https://www.zaber.
June 12, 2025, Atul Ingle
Panasonic single-photon vertical APD pixel designIn a paper titled "Robust Pixel Design Methodologies for a Vertical Avalanche Photodiode (VAPD)-Based CMOS Image Sensor" Inoue et al.
June 5, 2025, Atul Ingle
Nobel winner and co-inventor of CCD technology passes awayDPReview: https://www.dpreview.com/news/2948041351/ccd-image-sensor-pioneer-george-e-smith-passes-away-at-95 NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/science/george-e-smith-dead.htmlGeorge E. Smith died at the age of 95. Working with Willard S.
May 22, 2025, Gordon Laing
Fujifilm X half reviewThe Fujifilm X half is a compact camera with a 1in type sensor, 18 MP photos and a 32mm equiv lens. Unlike most cameras, the sensor, viewfinder and screen are all turned to the vertical shape, inspired by classic half-frame models and ideal for social sharing.
May 13, 2025, Gordon Laing
Panasonic Lumix S1 II reviewThe Panasonic Lumix S1 II has a partially stacked full-frame sensor, 24 Megapixel photos, 70fps bursts and 6k video.
May 5, 2025, Atul Ingle
Brillnics mono-IR global shutter sensorMiyauchi et al. from Brillnics Inc., Japan published a paper titled "A 3.96-ÎĽm, 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.
July 13, 2025, Atul Ingle
Single-photon computer vision workshop @ ICCV 2025📸✨ Join us at ICCV 2025 for our workshop on Computer Vision with Single-Photon Cameras (CVSPC)!🗓️ Sunday, Oct 19th, 8:15am-12:30pm at the Hawai'i Convention Center🔗 Full Program: https://cvspc.cs.pdx.
July 7, 2025, Atul Ingle
Images from the world's largest cameraStory in Nature news: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01973-5First images from world’s largest digital camera leave astronomers in aweThe Rubin Observatory in Chile will map the entire southern sky every three to four nights.
July 2, 2025, Atul Ingle
STMicro releases image sensor solution for human presence detectionNew technology delivers more than 20% power consumption reduction per day in addition to improved security and privacyST solution combines market leading Time-of-Flight (ToF) sensors and unique AI algorithms for a seamless user experienceGeneva, Switzerland, June 17, 2025 -- STMicroelectronics (NYSE...
June 30, 2025, Atul Ingle
MIPI C-PHY v3.0 upgrades data ratesNews: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250507526963/en/MIPI-C-PHY-v3.
June 25, 2025, Atul Ingle
Webinar on image sensors for astronomy The Future of Detectors in AstronomyIn this webinar, experts from ESO and Caeleste explore the current trends and future directions of detector technologies in astronomy.
June 18, 2025, Atul Ingle
Artilux and VisEra metalens collaborationNews release: https://www.artiluxtech.
June 15, 2025, Dave
Conference List - December 202518th International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST2025) - 1-3 December 2025 - Utsunomiya City, Japan - WebsiteInternational Technical Exhibition on Image Technology and Equipment (ITE) - 3-5 December 2025 - Yokohama, Japan - Website7th International Workshop on New Photon-Detectors (PD2025) -...
June 12, 2025, Gordon Laing
Fujifilm X-E5 reviewThe Fujifilm X-E5 is a mid-range mirrorless camera with a 40MP APSC sensor, viewfinder and built-in stabilisation. It could be described as an X100 with swappable lenses.
May 29, 2025, Atul Ingle
Photonic color-splitting image sensor startup Eyeo raises €15mnEyeo raises €15 million seed round to give cameras perfect eyesightEyeo replaces traditional filters with advanced color-splitting technology originating from imec, world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics and digital technologies.
May 21, 2025, Atul Ingle
Sony-Leopard Imaging collaboration LI-IMX454From PR Newswire: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/leopard-imaging-and-sony-semiconductor-solutions-collaborate-to-showcase-li-imx454-multispectral-cameras-at-automate-and-embedded-vision-summit-302452836.
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.
July 7, 2025, Gordon Laing
Canon PowerShot A5 retro reviewLaunched in 1998, the PowerShot A5 was arguably Canon's first good-looking consumer digital camera.
July 1, 2025, Dave
Conference List - January 2026SPIE Photonics West - 17-22 January 2026 - San Francisco, CA, USA - Website62nd International Winter Meeting on Nuclear Physics - 19-23 January 2026 - Bormio, Italy - WebsiteThe 39th International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (IEEE MEMS 2026) - 25-29 January 2026 - Salzburg, Austri...
June 29, 2025, Atul Ingle
NIT announces SWIR line sensorNew SWIR InGaAs Line Scan Sensor NSC2301 for High-Speed Industrial InspectionNew Imaging Technologies (NIT) announces the release of its latest SWIR InGaAs line scan sensor,the NSC2301, designed for demanding industrial inspection applications.
June 23, 2025, Atul Ingle
Open Letter from Johannes Solhusvik, New President of the International Image Sensor Society (IISS)Dear all, As announced by Junichi Nakamura during the IISW’25 banquet dinner, I have now taken over as President of the International Image Sensor Society (IISS).
June 17, 2025, Gordon Laing
OM System OM-5 Mark II review so farThe OM System OM-5 Mark II is a compact mirrorless camera that's part of the Micro Four Thirds system. Find out about this mild update in my review so far.
June 13, 2025, Atul Ingle
Videos of the day: UArizona and KAIST UArizona Imaging Technology Laboratory's sensor processing capabilities KAIST Design parameters of freeform color splitters for image sensors
June 9, 2025, Dave
Image Sensor Opening at Apple in JapanApple JapanImage Sensor Technical Program Manager - Minato, Tokyo-to, Japan - Link
May 23, 2025, Atul Ingle
Glass Imaging raises $20mnPR Newswire: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/glass-imaging-raises-20-million-funding-round-to-expand-ai-imaging-technologies-302451849.htmlGlass Imaging Raises $20 Million Funding Round To Expand AI Imaging TechnologiesLOS ALTOS, Calif.
May 21, 2025, Dave
Conference List - November 2025IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference, and Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detectors Symposium - 1-8 November 2025 - Yokohama, Japan - WebsiteSPIE Future Sensing Technologies 2025 - 11-13 November 2025 - Yokohama, Japan - Website14th International "Hiroshima" Symposium on th...
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.
