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Optics and photonics

Optics and photonics

Machine vision with depth

08 May 2018
This article first appeared in the 2018 Physics World Focus on Optics and Photonics

Next-generation steering technologies for lidar are making machine vision cheaper and more portable. Janelle Shane describes how these advances could apply to autonomous vehicles

Image processing
Edge case: The real world sometimes plays tricks on image-processing algorithms used in machine vision. (Image courtesy: Cognata)
Today’s self-driving cars are hard to miss, thanks to the striking structures that emerge from the

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