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Paper on RGBC-IR color filter array
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Tripurari 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. While these cameras can employ their RGB images to effectively denoise IR, they contain too few IR pixels to do the reverse: denoise RGB with IR.Improving low light RGB with an IR illuminator is an important feature for upcoming automotive applications where cabins have to be kept dark at night so as not to distract the driver. Current solutions to this problem either discard the IR cut filter and take separate RGB and IR exposures and suffer from poor colors. Or employ a bulky beam splitter architecture with separate RGB and IR sensors.We propose a camera with a novel RGBC-IR color filter array containing clear pixels that are sensitive to both visible light and IR. Its RGB pixels feature an IR attenuating coating while its IR pixels contain a black filter that blocks visible light.Mulitspectral demosaicking techniques are used to reconstruct RGB and IR images, as well as a high SNR luminance image containing the Clear, RGB and IR signals. Fusion techniques developed for beam splitter RGB-IR cameras are used to denoise RGB and IR using the luminance.
Conference List – September 2025
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Conference List – August 2025
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Low Temperature Quantum Detectors - 3-6 August 2025 - Helsinki, Finland - Website
SPIE Optics & Photonics - 3-7 Aug 2025 - San Diego, California, USA - Website
VERTEX 2025: 33rd International Workshop on Vertex Detectors - 25-29 August 2025 - Knoxville, Tennessee, USA - Website
BNL Physics and Detector Simulation Meeting - 26 August 2025 - Zoom online - Website
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Conference List – July 2025
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10th International Smart Sensor Technology Exhibition - 2-4 July 2025 - Goyang, South Korea - Website
26th International Workshop on Radiation Detectors - 6-10 July 2025 - Bratislava, Slovakia - Website
IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium - 8-10 July 2025 - Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Website
Ninth International Conference on Imaging, Signal Processing and Communications - 11-13 July 2025 - Osaka, Japan - Website
IEEE Nuclear & Space Radiation Effects Conference (NSREC) 14-18 July 2025 - Nashville, Tennessee, USA - Website
Optica Sensing Congress - 20-24 July 2025 - Long Beach, California, USA - Website
American Association of Physicists in Medicine 67th Annual Meeting and Exhibition - 27-30 July 2025 - Washington, D.C., USA - Website
The 2nd International Conference on AI Sensors and Transducers - 29 July–3 August 2025 - Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Website
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IDS launches new industrial camera series featuring Prophesee
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PARIS, 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-speed, dynamic range and data efficiency of the Prophesee-Sony IMX636HD event-based vision sensor to offer new capabilities for industrial machine vision applications.
The result of extensive collaboration between the two companies, the solution features Prophesee’s proven neuromorphic approach to capturing fast-moving objects with significantly less data processing, power and blur than traditional frame-based methods. With these capabilities, the uEye EVS camera is the ideal solution for applications that require real-time machine vision processing at very high speed, such as optical monitoring of vibrations or high-speed motion analysis.
The camera benefits from Prophesee’s event-based vision’s ability to capture only relevant events in a scene. In contrast to conventional image sensors, it does not capture every image completely at regular intervals (frames) but only reacts to changes within a scene. It transmits events depending on when and where the brightness in its field of view changes - for each individual sensor pixel. The temporal resolution, i.e. the minimum measurable time difference between two successive changes in brightness, can be less than 100 microseconds.
The sensor is supported by Metavision SDK, a seamlessly integrated suite of software tools and models, APIs, and other training and development resources from Prophesee for efficient evaluation, visualization, and customization.
"This partnership combines our mutual areas of expertise to realize the benefits of event-based vision, including remarkable temporal resolution which make the cameras optimised for analysing highly dynamic scenes. It enables best conditions for capturing fast object movements without loss of information, comparable to an image-based frame rate of more than 10,000 images per second," explains Patrick Schick, Product Owner 3D & Vision Software. “At the same time, the sensor ignores all motionless areas of its field of view and thus generates 10 to 1000 times less data than image-based variants. This saves memory and computing time.”
“IDS cameras are well known to address the toughest machine vision use cases and with the incorporation of Prophesee event-based vision technologies, it strengthens its offering to provide far more performance, power efficiency and accuracy, even in the most challenging conditions,” says Luca Verre, CEO and co-founder of Prophesee. “We are excited to see how the efforts of this tight collaboration have resulted in the new uEye EVS camera which leverages the potential of our sensors and development environment to deliver new value to its customers.”
About IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH:
IDS Imaging Development Systems GmbH is a leading manufacturer of industrial cameras and pioneer in industrial image processing. The owner-managed, environmentally certified company develops high-performance and versatile 2D and 3D cameras as well as models with artificial intelligence (AI) or with streaming/event recording feature. The almost unlimited range of applications covers multiple non-industrial and industrial sectors of equipment, plant and mechanical engineering.
Since its foundation in 1997 as a two-man company, IDS has developed into an independent, ISO and environmental-friendly certified family business with around 320 employees. The headquarters in Obersulm, Germany, is both a development and production site. With subsidiaries in the USA, Japan, South Korea and the UK, as well as further representative offices in France, Benelux and India, the technology company has a global presence.
About Prophesee
Prophesee is the inventor of the world’s most advanced neuromorphic vision systems. Prophesee’s patented sensors and AI algorithms, introduce a new computer vision paradigm based on how the human eye and brain work. Like the human vision, it sees events: essential, motion information in the scene, not a succession of conventional images. This breakthrough method allows for unprecedented speed (>10 000fps time resolution equivalent), dynamic range (>120dB), data volume (10x to 1000x less) and power efficiency (<10 mW). Prophesee bio-inspired revolution opens a new path to absolute efficiency and safety in autonomous driving, IoT and Industry 4.0. Prophesee reveals the invisible. For more information, please visit www.prophesee.ai.
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SK hynix plans to exit CMOS image sensor business
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Various news agencies reporting that SK hynix is exiting the CIS business to focus on AI.
Amid the AI-driven HBM boom, SK hynix is exiting its non-core CMOS image sensor (CIS) business, according to ZDNet and Edaily.
The ZDNet report suggests that SK hynix used to supply CMOS sensors for Samsung’s Galaxy Z3 and Chinese smartphones, but struggled to expand due to weak market demand and rising competition from Chinese newcomers.
According to SK hynix, its CIS division, launched in 2007, gained expertise in logic semiconductors beyond memory. However, the company decided to shift resources from CIS to AI memory to strengthen its AI-focused strategy, as per ZDNet.
Another report from fnews notes that SK hynix entered the image sensor market in 2008 by acquiring Silicon File. In 2019, it established a CIS R&D center in Japan and launched the “Black Pearl” sensor brand.
However, while trailing behind Sony and Samsung on the CIS business, SK hynix has been gradually downsizing the division, according to Edaily.
In late 2024, the company placed its CIS development team under the Future Technology Research Institute amid ongoing discussions about the business’s declining profitability, the Edaily report indicates.
https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=5177
SK Hynix is existing the CMOS image sensor (CIS) business, TheElec has learned.
The company will instead focus fully on AI memory products. Those working at its CIS business unit will be transferred to teams working on high-bandwidth memory (HBM).
In a recent internal communication event with employees, SK Hynix said the AI era has come and that the company has achieved “great results” in the AI memory sector.
The company was in the middle of a “great transition” to become a core AI company, SK Hynix told employees.
Technology and expertise that its CIS business unit will be crucial in solidifying its position as a global AI company, SK Hynix added.
SK Hynix started its CIS business in 2007 and since then attempted to expand its market share in the mobile market. But the unit continued to mark low profitability and its existence was always questioned.
In its year’s end reshuffle lats year, the business unit was moved to be under the supervision of the Future Technology Lab. These teams are more research oriented than teams under the supervision of the CEO.
SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-jung was also known to be strongly in favor of continuing the CIS business unit prior to the exit.
The company, during the vent, also said it plans to become a full stack AI memory provider.
Conference List – June 2025
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Low-Temperature Detectors Conference - 1-6 June 2025 - Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA - Website
International Image Sensor Workshop - 2-5 June 2025 - Hyogo, Japan - Website
Symposium on VLSI Technology and Circuits - 8-12 June 2025 - Kyoto, Japan - Website
AutoSens USA 2025 - 10-12 June 2025 - Detroit, Michigan, USA - Website
Photonics for Quantum - 16-19 June 2025 - Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - Website
Smart Sensing - 18-20 June 2025 - Tokyo, Japan - Website
Sensors and Sensing Technology - 19-21 June 2025 - Zurich, Switzerland - Website
22nd International Conference on IC Design and Technology (ICICDT) - 23-25 June 2025 - Lecce, Italy - Website
Sensors Converge - 24-26 June - Santa Clara, California, USA - Website
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Conference List – May 2025
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CLEO - Congress on Lasers and Electro-Optics - 4-9 May 2025 - Long Beach, California, USA - Website
Sensor+Test - 6-8 May 2025 - Nuremberg, Germany - Website
Automate - 12-15 May 2025 - Detroit, Michigan, USA - Website
Quantum Photonics Conference, Networking and Trade Exhibition - 13-14 May 2025 - Erfurt, Germany - Website
IEEE Sensors in Spotlight - 16 May 2025 - Boston, Massachusetts, USA - Website
AllSensors 2025 - 18-22 May 2025 - Nice, France - Website
Biosensors 2025 - 19-22 May 2025 - Lisbon, Portugal - Website
Embedded Vision Summit - 20-22 May 2025 - Santa Clara, California, USA - Website
IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Circuits and Systems - 25-28 May 2025 - London, UK - Website
5th International Electronic Conference on Biosensors - 26-28 May 2025 - Online - Website
LOPS 2025 - Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA -31 May-2 June 2025 - Website
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International Conference on Computational Photography (ICCP) 2025 call for papers
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ICCP is the premier annual conference on computational imaging. The conference brings together researchers with interests broadly related to advancing computational imaging, from theory to systems to applications, including sensors, optics, algorithms, machine intelligence, vision science and perception.
ICCP 2025 will be an in-person event at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada, from July 21 – 23, 2025.
ICCP 2025 seeks novel and high-quality submissions in all areas of computational imaging—from theory to systems to applications, including sensors, optics, algorithms, machine intelligence, vision science, and perception—as well as the following topics of interest.
- High-performance imaging
- Computational cameras, illumination, and displays
- Advanced image and video processing
- Integration of imaging, physics, and machine learning
- Organizing and exploiting photo/video collections
- Structured light and time-of-flight imaging
- Appearance, shape, and illumination capture
- Computational optics (wavefront coding, digital holography, compressive sensing, etc.)
- Sensor and illumination hardware
- Imaging models and limits
- Physics-based rendering, neural rendering, and differentiable rendering
- Applications: imaging on mobile platforms, scientific imaging, medicine and biology, user interfaces, AR/VR systems
As in previous years, ICCP is coordinating with the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) for a special issue on Computational Photography to be published after the conference. All submissions to ICCP will undergo a common review process and be judged for acceptance to either:
- The PAMI special issue: for papers that describe entirely novel work (i.e., not extensions of published conference papers) and are also of archival quality with comprehensive evaluation and analysis.
- The ICCP Proceedings: for papers that meet traditional conference criteria for quality and novelty but do not meet the criteria for (1) above.
Reviewing will be double-blind, and authors will be allowed a rebuttal after initial reviews. After review, the program chairs will inform the authors of accepted papers whether their paper has been selected for the special issue or the conference proceedings (see the Review and Decision Process section below for further details). Both sets of accepted papers will be presented as talks at the conference.
Please visit this page for more details and submission link: https://iccp2025.iccp-conference.org/#callforpapers
Paper submission deadline (firm, no extensions) April 9, 2025 at 2359h Pacific Time.
Future of Image Sensors: IS&T Rochester NY chapter talk by John McCarten
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The Future of Image Sensors, John McCarten
John 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. Since 2001, John’s focus has been on image sensors and cameras. He has worked with semiconductor foundries on four continents. He has over 30 patents and has been the technical lead on development projects that have brought in over a billion dollars in sales.
00:00 - Introduction
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IISW 2025 preliminary technical program available
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New! IISW25 Technical Program (preliminary): Link
Venue: Awaji Yumebutai Int. Conf. Center, Hyogo, Japan.
Date: 2–5 June, 2025
New! Pre-registration information: Link
Authors can find the Paper Numbers or Poster Numbers in the Program to complete the required pre-registration.
After collecting all the camera-ready files, the final Program with timetables will be posted here.
New! IISW25 Right to Publish Form: Link
Authors need to download, sign, print to PDF, and submit it along with the camera-ready 4-page paper by 03/22/25.
Submit files to the same CMT site where you submitted the abstracts : https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IISW2025
General Workshop Co-Chairs
Yusuke Oike – Sony (Japan)
Shoji Kawahito – Shizuoka University and SUiCTE
Technical Program Chairs
Calvin Chao – TSMC
Rihito Kuroda – Tohoku University
IISS Board of Directors
Calvin Chao – TSMC
Boyd Fowler – OmniVision
Robert Henderson – The University of Edinburgh
Vladimir Koifman – Analog Value
Rihito Kuroda – Tohoku University
Guy Meynants – Photolitics
Junichi Nakamura – Brillnics
Shouleh Niksad – Jet Propulsion Lab.
Yusuke Oike – Sony (Japan)
Johannes Solhusvik – Sony (Norway)
Daniel Van Blerkom – Forza Silicon-Ametek
Yibing Michelle Wang – Samsung Semiconductor
TriEye SWIR machine vision solutions
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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.
Improving color sensitivity in low light using nano-prisms, light pillars, and color splitters
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A recent article in IEEE Spectrum discusses three approaches to improve color throughput in low-light settings: nano-prisms, light pillars, and color splitters.
Using color splitters, an image sensor can increase its overall sensitivity by having light appropriate to each sensor channeled directly to it. (imec)
“Nano-pillars” are a light channeling form of a metasurface that, a little like Imec's color splitter, also direct specific wavelengths of light to the detector pixels best suited to receive the light. (VisEra Technologies)
IISW 2025 pre-registration is open!
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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 sensors and share new results with the image sensor community. The event is intended for image sensor technologists; in order to encourage attendee interaction and a shared experience, attendance is limited, with strong acceptance preference given to workshop presenters. As is the tradition, the 2025 workshop will emphasize an open exchange of information among participants in an informal, secluded setting on the Awaji Island in Hyōgo, Japan.
The pre-registration, along with the workshop program, will be open from February 17th, 2025. Details about pre-registration have been made available in advance at:
https://imagesensors.org/2025-international-image-sensor-workshop/
Priority seating will be given to presenters of accepted papers, resulting in a limited number of seats available for other attendees. Registration will generally be on a first-come, first-served basis. However, in line with the workshop’s commitment to fostering diverse and lively discussions, the organizers reserve the right to adjust allocations to ensure a balanced representation of affiliations.
Lucid Vision Labs tech report on IMX636 and IMX637
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Link: 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. The report goes into details on how the sensor can be controlled so that users can tweak and tune the event based data.
Gpixel announces large format image sensor 16.8MP
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Gpixel Launches New Large Format Image Sensor
Sensor especially designed for physical science, astronomy vision applications.
Gpixel has launched a new large format monochrome CMOS image sensor, the GSENSE1517BSI. This backside illuminated sensor has 4116 x 4100, 16.8 MPixel resolution with 15 x 15 µm pixel size, 61.74 x 61.5 imaging area, and 4 fps frame rate. It has 92% peak QE and minimum read noise of 1.2e. It has both dual gain HDR and 14-bit ADC, which enables a wide variety of imaging modes. It can achieve up to 95.3db dynamic range. It has an operating temperature range of -60°C to 50° C.
This sensor is especially designed for scientific applications such astronomy related vision tasks, including space situational awareness, and orbital object tracking.
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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
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