November 13, 2025, Atul Ingle
Metalenz announces face ID solutionMetalenz and UMC Bring Breakthrough Face Authentication Solution Polar ID to Mass ProductionBoston, MA and Hsinchu, TAIWAN, November 12, 2025 - Metalenz, the leader in metasurface innovation and commercialization, and United Microelectronics Corporation (“UMC” NYSE: UMC, TWSW:2303), a leading gl...
October 28, 2025, Atul Ingle
Paper on flexible SWIR detectorZhang et al from the National University of Singapore published a paper titled "Flexible InGaAs/InAlAs avalanche photodiodes for short-wave infrared detection" in Nature Communications. Open access link: https://www.nature.
October 21, 2025, Atul Ingle
[Video] Owl Thermal Imaging for Safer Streets Smarter Cameras Imply Safer Streets? | Interview with Wade Appelman, Owl Autonomous Imaging Pedestrian deaths at night are rising around the world — and traditional car sensors aren't enough to stop them.
October 16, 2025, Atul Ingle
Samsung announces 0.5um pixelhttps://semiconductor.samsung.com/image-sensor/mobile-image-sensor/isocell-hp5/Specifications:Effective Resolution 16,384 x 12,288 (200MP) Pixel Size 0.5 μm Optical Format 1/1.56" Color Filter Tetra²pixel RGB Bayer Pattern Normal Frame Rate 7.
October 6, 2025, Atul Ingle
Billion-pixel-resolution microscopy of curved surfacesRecent Optical news article covers a publication by Yang et al. which presents a new technique for capturing high resolution microscopy images of curved surfaces. X. Yang, H. Chen, L. Kreiss, C.B. Cook, G. Kuczewski, M. Harfouche, M.O. Bohlen, R.
October 2, 2025, Atul Ingle
Article about Japan's TDK and Apple iPhone camerasOriginal article here: https://gori.
September 16, 2025, Dave
Conference List - March 2026Electronic Imaging - 1-5 March 2026 - Burlingame, California, USA - Website22nd Annual Device Packaging Conference - 2-5 March 2026 - Phoenix, Arizona, USA - WebsiteEDIT (Excellence in Detector and Instrumentation Technologies) - 3-13 March 2026 - Geneva, Switzerland - WebsiteLaser World o...
September 12, 2025, Atul Ingle
Image sensors workshop at IEEE Sensors 2025A workshop titled "Future CMOS Image Sensors for AI Era – AI or not" will be held alongside IEEE Sensors 2025 in Vancouver, Canada on Sunday Oct 19, 2025.Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly integrated into our daily lives.
September 8, 2025, Atul Ingle
VoxelSensors Qualcomm collabhttps://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/08/28/3140996/0/en/VoxelSensors-to-Advance-Next-Generation-Depth-Sensing-Technology-with-10x-Power-Savings-for-XR-Applications.
September 3, 2025, Atul Ingle
Prophesee announces GenX320 starter kits for Raspberry Pihttps://www.prophesee.
August 27, 2025, Atul Ingle
Harvest Imaging 2025 Forum - Dec 8, 9 - Single-Photon DetectionRegistration page: https://harvestimaging.com/forum_introduction_2025_coming.phpThe Harvest Imaging forum will continue with a next edition scheduled for December 8 & 9, 2025, in Delft, the Netherlands.
August 22, 2025, Atul Ingle
AIStorm and Tower Semiconductor release AI-in-Imager chipAIStorm & Tower Semiconductor Introduce Cheetah HS, World’s First Up-to-260K FPS AI-in-Imager Chip for Inspection, Robotics & SportsCharge-domain imager with on-chip neural network, provides breakthrough slow-motion vision at a fraction of the cost and power consumption of competing high-s...
August 18, 2025, Dave
Omnivision Needs an Applications Engineer OmnivisionSenior Applications Engineer - Santa Clara, California, USA - Link
August 14, 2025, Atul Ingle
ESSERC 2025 smart cars workshopThe Role of Cameras and Photonics for Smart Cars Full day workshop on Sep 8th, 2025 @ ESSERC 2025 TU Munichhttps://www.esserc2025.
August 1, 2025, Atul Ingle
Zeiss acquires SPAD startup PiImagingLink: https://www.zeiss.com/microscopy/en/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/2025/zeiss-acquires-all-equity-shares-of-pi-imaging-technology-sa.
July 28, 2025, Atul Ingle
3D stacked edge-AI chip with CIS + deep neural networkIn a recent preprint titled "J3DAI: A tiny DNN-Based Edge AI Accelerator for 3D-Stacked CMOS Image Sensor," Tain et al.
November 11, 2025, Atul Ingle
Event-Driven Vision Summer SchoolUnfortunately the registration deadline has already passed, but I'm posting the program here if it's of interest to the blog readers.https://edpr.iit.
October 25, 2025, Atul Ingle
33rd IS&T Color and Imaging Conference Oct 27-31https://imaging.org/IST/Conferences/CIC/CIC2025/CIC_Home.aspxThe 33rd Color and Imaging Conference will be held in Hong Kong—Monday 27 - Friday 31 October 2025—for the first time in Asia.The CIC33 is organized around the following topics.
October 20, 2025, Atul Ingle
Single-Photon Challenge image reconstruction competition is now open!The Single-Photon Challenge announced yesterday (Oct 19) at ICCV 2025 is a first-of-its-kind benchmark and open
competition for photon-level imaging and reconstruction.
The competition is now open! The submission deadline is April 1, 2026 (AOE) and winners will be announced in summer 2026.
October 13, 2025, Atul Ingle
Tower Semiconductor preprint on 2.2um global shutter pixelYokoyama et al. from Tower Semiconductor have posted a preprint titled "Charge Domain Type 2.2um BSI Global Shutter Pixel with Dual Depth DTI Produced by Thick-Film Epitaxial Process":Abstract: We developed a 2.
October 6, 2025, Atul Ingle
Billion-pixel-resolution microscopy of curved surfacesRecent Optical news article covers a publication by Yang et al. which presents a new technique for capturing high resolution microscopy images of curved surfaces. X. Yang, H. Chen, L. Kreiss, C.B. Cook, G. Kuczewski, M. Harfouche, M.O. Bohlen, R.
September 30, 2025, Atul Ingle
Sony announces IMX927 a 105MP global-shutter CISProduct page: https://www.sony-semicon.com/en/products/is/industry/gs/imx927-937.htmlRelease page: https://www.sony-semicon.com/en/info/2025/2025092901.html PetaPixel article: https://petapixel.
September 16, 2025, Atul Ingle
Happening Today: Swiss Photonics Lunch ChatLink: https://www.swissphotonics.net/home?event_id=4480Lunch Chat: SPAD arrays and cameras: a comparison with conventional image sensors and detectorsTue, 16.09.
September 12, 2025, Thomas
Zeiss Otus ML 50mm f1.4 reviewThe Zeiss Otus ML 50mm f1.4 is a wide-aperture, manual focus, standard prime lens designed for Sony, Canon, and Nikon mirrorless full-frame cameras.
September 5, 2025, Atul Ingle
SMPTE awards Dr. Peter Centenhttps://www.smpte.org/about/awards-programs/camera-winners2025 - Dr. Peter G. M. CentenFor pioneering innovations in image sensor technology that transformed electronic cinematography and broadcast imaging. Over a career spanning more than four decades, Dr.
September 1, 2025, Atul Ingle
Galaxycore 50MP 0.61um CISTranslated from Baidu news: https://baijiahao-baidu-com.translate.goog/s?id=1839605263838551524&wfr=spider&for=pc&_x_tr_sl=zh-CN&_x_tr_tl=de&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wappGLOBAL HUI, August 5th | GalaxyCore (688728.
August 25, 2025, Atul Ingle
Sony 3-layer stacked sensorTranlated from baidu.com: https://baijiahao-baidu-com.translate.
August 21, 2025, Dave
A New Image Sensor Company in China is RecruitingShanghai Primevision Technology Co.
August 18, 2025, Atul Ingle
Image sensor sampling strategies [video] Electronic Sampling for Temporal Imaging: Computational Optical Imaging Episode 66 This episode considers global and rolling shutter strategies and other alternatives for sampling of video. The very simple simulation presented is available at https://github.com/arizonaCameraLab/c...
August 11, 2025, Atul Ingle
NovoViz announces a SPAD-based event cameraThe NovoViz NV04ASC-HW Asynchronous photon-driven camera was developed for applications requiring high sensitivity and/or frame rate but with reduced output bandwidth.
August 4, 2025, Dave
Job Postings - Week of 3 August 2025
Leidos
Detector Scientist
Vista, California, USA
Link
Australian
Research Council
PhD Scholarships in Quantum
Technologies
Adelaide, Melbourne, and Brisbane,
Australia
Link
CMOS Sensor, Inc.
July 31, 2025, Dave
Conference List - February 2026TIPP 2026 (International Conference on Technology & Instrumentation in Particle Physics) - 2-6 February 2026 - Mumbai, India - WebsiteIEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) - 15-19 February 2026 - San Francisco, California, USA - WebsiteSPIE Medical Imaging - 15-19 ...
July 25, 2025, Atul Ingle
Call for Papers: Image Sensors at ISSCC 2026New for IEEE ISSCC 2026, we are pleased to announce the creation of a new sub-committee dedicated to Image Sensors & Displays.
October 30, 2025, Atul Ingle
Foveon X3 sensor update Source: https://photorumors.com/2025/10/24/the-latest-updates-on-the-sigma-foveon-x3-sensor-with-111-technology/ Some updates from Foveon in a new video interview posted on YouTube:Sigma is “still working on the development of the sensor” [17:00].
October 25, 2025, Atul Ingle
ST's new sensors for industrial automation, security, retailhttps://newsroom.st.com/media-center/press-item.html/p4728.htmlSTMicroelectronics introduces a new family of 5MP CMOS image sensors: VD1943, VB1943, VD5943, and VB5943.
October 16, 2025, Thomas
Tamron 16-30mm f2.8 Di III G2 reviewThe Tamron 16-30mm f2.8 Di III G2 is the 2nd generation of an ultra-wide zoom for Sony and Nikon mirrorless full-frame cameras.
October 11, 2025, Dave
Conference List - April 2026IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging - 8-11 April 2026 - London, UK - WebsiteSPIE Photonics Europe - 12-16 April 2026 - Strasbourg, France - WebsiteIEEE Silicon Photonics Conference - 13-15 April 2026 - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - WebsiteIEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conferen...
October 3, 2025, Atul Ingle
Webinar on metasurface optics designMetasurface Optics for Information Processing and ComputingPresented by Shane ColburnThu, Oct 9, 2025 1:00P EDTWebinar registration link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.
September 14, 2025, Dave
Job Postings - Week of 14 September 2025
Amazon
ASIC SoC Manager, Amazon Camera
ASIC Team
Sunnyvale, California, USA
Link
GlobalFoundries
Principal Engineer Device
Engineering (FRCMOS): SPAD/CIS Development
Singapore
Link
Vital Chemicals
IC Designer
Cup...
September 10, 2025, Atul Ingle
International Image Sensor Workshop (IISW) 2025 proceedings availableIISW 2025 papers available in our public archive at https://imagesensors.org/2025-papers/.Each article also got a DOI assigned for easy future references, just like all other papers published by IISS since 2007.
September 5, 2025, Atul Ingle
SMPTE awards Dr. Peter Centenhttps://www.smpte.org/about/awards-programs/camera-winners2025 - Dr. Peter G. M. CentenFor pioneering innovations in image sensor technology that transformed electronic cinematography and broadcast imaging. Over a career spanning more than four decades, Dr.
August 29, 2025, Atul Ingle
Canon 400MP CISLink: https://www.photografix-magazin.de/canon-zeigt-410-mp-vollformatsensor-technik-rekord-fuer-spezialanwendungen/Related post on the blog in January: https://image-sensors-world.blogspot.com/2025/01/canon-announces-410mp-full-frame-sensor.
August 25, 2025, Thomas
Nikon Z 24-70mm f2.8 S II reviewNikon has totally reworked their pro Z 24-70mm f2.8 S with improved features for photographers and videographers. How does it compare to its predecessor and Tamron? Find out in my review.
August 20, 2025, Atul Ingle
Toshiba announces linear CCD sensor for document scannersToshiba Releases Lens-Reduction Type CCD Linear Image Sensor with Low Random Noise That Helps Improve Image Quality in Devices Such as A3 Multifunction PrintersKAWASAKI, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation ("Toshiba") has launched a lens-reduction type CCD li...
August 15, 2025, Atul Ingle
Samsung presentation on pixel deep sub-micron and metaoptics trendsPaper link: https://imagesensors.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Invited-6.
August 11, 2025, Atul Ingle
NovoViz announces a SPAD-based event cameraThe NovoViz NV04ASC-HW Asynchronous photon-driven camera was developed for applications requiring high sensitivity and/or frame rate but with reduced output bandwidth.
August 4, 2025, Dave
Job Postings - Week of 3 August 2025
Leidos
Detector Scientist
Vista, California, USA
Link
Australian
Research Council
PhD Scholarships in Quantum
Technologies
Adelaide, Melbourne, and Brisbane,
Australia
Link
CMOS Sensor, Inc.
July 30, 2025, Atul Ingle
Princeton Infrared Technologies closing businessFrom Princeton Infrared Technologies: https://www.princetonirtech.com/Today marks a bittersweet milestone as we officially close the doors of Princeton Infrared Technologies.It’s a moment of mixed emotions. Pride in what we’ve accomplished and gratitude for the people who made it possible.
