Revision as of 13:30, 6 September 2008

The Ruby-extension HornetsEye is being presented at OSCON 2008 (also see presentation slides (10 MByte PDF)). More...

Object recognition by using colour segmentation. Of course the algorithm has its limitations but it is very easy to implement (also available as 8.6 MByte DivX video or on Google Video). More...

MMVLWiki

This is the MediaWiki site of the Microsystem & Machine Vision Laboratory (MMVL) at Sheffield Hallam University in Sheffield, UK.

Our main research activities involve the design, development and implementation of machine vision techniques targeted at a variety of real-time and non real-time applications which include micro-robotic systems, biological applications, micro-manipulation, microscope imaging, SEM/TEM applications and non-destructive testing of MEMS devices.

MMVL projects and free software

Past Projects	Present Projects			Free Software
MINIMAN	I-SWARM	Nanorobotics	GUARDIANS	Mimas
MiCRoN	VIEW-FINDER	REPLICATOR		HornetsEye

The MMVL has been working on a number of European and UK funded research projects, such as Miniman and Micron (also see past projects). Currently the MMVL is participating in I-SWARM, Nanorobotics, GUARDIANS, VIEW-FINDER and REPLICATOR (also see present projects). It is active in the area of medical image processing and autonomous mobile robots. The MMVL is also actively involved in consultancy for industry.

MMVL activities

Medical Image Processing	Autonomous Mobile Robots
Micromanipulators	Robot Automation

If you are interested in a project with the MMVL or if you would like to have our consultancy, please contact us.

If you need assistance, please visit the help section.

http://vision.eng.shu.ac.uk/mmvlwiki/ is the short URL for this web page.

News

IEEE Advances in Cybernetic Systems 2008

9-10 September 2008: This year's CIS is taking place at Middlesex University in London. Several current and former members of the MMVL are participating.

Presentation at OSCON2008

23 July 2008: The Ruby-extension HornetsEye is being presented at the OSCON 2008 conference. Here you can download the presentation slides (10 MByte PDF). More...

Presentation at ICIA2008

22 June 2008: The Ruby-extension HornetsEye was presented at the ICIA 2008 conference. The Lucas-Kanade tracker was used to demonstrate the current capabilities of the vision library. You can download the publication about a machine vision extension for the Ruby programming language (also see foils (2.1 MByte PDF)). More...

Interactive Presentation Software

12 June 2008: An interactive presentation software was developed to demonstrate the capabilities of the new release of the HornetsEye system. More...

Khepera III interface

23 May 2008: Carlos Raga Camilleri presented his project where he developed an interface for the popular Khepera III robot.

RANdom SAmple Consensus

15 May 2008: Sonia Fernández Rodríguez presented her project about real-time 2-D rigid object-recognition with RANSAC. More...

Talk at BMVA meeting

14 May 2008: Bala Amavasai is going to give a talk about Machine Vision for macro, micro and nano robot environments at the BMVA meeting about Vision and Robotics. More...

EU FP7 project REPLICATOR has started

1 Mar 2008: The EU FP7 project REPLICATOR has started.

Modelling Research Centre Seminar

29 Feb 2008: The Nanorobotics project and the HornetsEye library were presented in the Modelling Research Centre Seminar "Machine vision and device integration with the Ruby Programming Language".

KMando now supports firewire digital cameras

7 Feb 2008: The interactive camera-projector system now has built-in support for firewire digital cameras. More...

Older News

Older news can be found in the news archive.

See Also

• Past Projects
• Present Projects
• Check out our current temperature record ;)

External Links

• Official MMVL homepage
• Materials and Engineering Research Institute
• Sheffield Hallam University, UK
• Autonomous guided vehicles
• Medical image processing