Press Release

30.05.08Allied Vision Technologies Introduces Stingray Cameras Series in the US at Vision Show in Boston

Visitors of the AVT booth at the Vision Show in Boston from June 10-12 will have a chance to “test-drive” the new Stingray digital camera family and experience a spectacular machine vision application with the Reactable.

Allied Vision Technologies’ booth will be the place to be at the Vision Show to be held from June 10-12 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA. The new Stingray digital camera series will premiere in the USA at the show. Visitors will also get an insight into the plug-and-play functionalities of AVT software with third party libraries. Last but not least, the spectacular Reactable music synthesizer using machine vision with an AVT camera will be presented live to the American public.

“Transformer”- Camera: Stingray with Advanced Thermal Management
The new Stingray FireWire IEEE 1394b digital camera is loaded with typical AVT intelligent functions for image pre-processing which reduce the load on the image-processing CPU and increase data precision and efficiency with optimized image quality. Thanks to the innovative AVT Modular Concept, each user can design his camera individually to meet his own needs – with a wide selection of lens-mounts, sensors, case variations (including board-level versions), interfaces and cable outputs, which can be flexibly configured using building-block principles.

The new Stingray delivers strikingly high image quality as a result of a comprehensive camera design, each detail of which has been optimized for image quality. For example, its advanced thermal management is designed to dissipate heat efficiently from the sensor in order to minimize the background noise in the image. An active cooling solution using a Peltier cooler combined with the built-in temperature sensor in the camera will also be available to regulate the camera temperature for particularly demanding applications.

Music Instrument Reactable Turns Images to Sound
Machine vision is being implemented in an increasing number of applications beyond traditional industrial image processing. A spectacular example is the Reactable, an experimental synthesizer developed by researchers of the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain and used by Icelandic pop-star Björk in her Volta world tour.

The Reactable looks like an illuminated, round table with a diameter of about 1 m (3 ft.) and a glass top. The interaction between musician and instrument takes place simply and intuitively via the smooth surface of the table on which the artist places and moves different objects in relationship to each other. A Guppy digital camera from Allied Vision Technologies monitors everything that takes place on the table from underneath the glass plate. The specially developed image processing system ReacTIVision analyzes the images and derives corresponding sound information from the position of the objects. This is then transferred to the speakers as an audio signal and graphically projected onto the tabletop.

This unique musical instrument will be on display at the AVT booth at the Vision Show in Boston. Visitors will be able to attend performances by one of the inventors of the systems and even experience the intuitive interface by playing the instrument themselves.

“Seeing is Believing”: Hands-on Demos for cameras and software
This year again, Allied Vision Technologies will reiterate its successful “Test Drive” action in Boston: visitors will be given an opportunity to test the AVT camera of their choice or the one best suited for their application – including the new models Pike F-505 with 5 Megapixel sensor and the Marlin F-131 NIR with near-infrared sensitivity. A software demo will also be on display on the booth illustrating the plug-and-play compatibility of AVT software packages with third party libraries.

Allied Vision Technologies
Vision Show – Booth #219
June 10 – 12, 2008
John B. Hynes Convention Center
900 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02115