Teledyne e2v and Yumain announce collaboration to create AI-based imaging solutions for machine vision
20/05/2021
Teledyne e2v, a Teledyne Technologies company and global innovator of imaging solutions, has announced a new technology and industrial collaboration with Yumain, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) vision solutions provider serving a broad range of industrial applications. Together, the companies will develop cutting-edge bio-inspired vision solutions that can enable innovation in industrial applications.The recent emergence of AI for industry has rapidly demonstrated its benefits over traditional rule-based methods, which have been proven to be unsuitable for applications with high variability, for example the inspection of complex surfaces with irregularities (brushed aluminium, wood, etc). To be harnessed to its full potential and for AI to be adopted globally, it must be easily set up and trained, able to be optimised by users within minutes (without any AI expertise) and to provide reliable results, flexible in application, secure and low power. By joining forces, Teledyne e2v and Yumain plan to develop significant breakthrough innovations to address these challenges, make AI technology more accessible and advance it to the next level.
Vincent Hector, Vice President of Market Development at Teledyne e2v, said: “We’re very excited to be collaborating with Yumain on this innovative project. Our image sensor capability coupled with their tailored AI expertise will allow us to develop AI-based vision solutions that will be easily accessible for industrial customers and bring real benefits to their applications.”
Marc Benoit, Managing Director of Yumain, commented: “Edge AI, as we know it today, consists of an optimisation of machine learning models and computation inherited from the cloud. We have ten years of experience in this field, which have shown us that alternative implementations of AI could be more suitable and scalable for the constraints of factory and production lines. Teledyne e2v’s image sensor design and production expertise are paramount to bringing these novel ideas to reality.
This initiative is a key milestone for us and one that emphasises our potential to investors.”
Teledyne e2v is part of the Teledyne Imaging Group, the innovations of which lead developments in healthcare, life sciences, space, transportation, defence and security and industrial markets. Teledyne e2v’s unique approach involves listening to the market and application challenges of customers and partnering with them to provide innovative standard, semi-custom or fully-custom imaging solutions, bringing increased value to their systems.
Yumain is a private company based in Dijon, France. Founded in 2011 by an experienced management and academic team, the company designs and manufactures intelligent vision systems and cameras for Industry 4.0. By leveraging a background in artificial intelligence and software and hardware design, it serves international clients by focusing on predictive maintenance, quality control, industrial robots and risk prevention. The approach is based on a unique analysis and real-time decision-making process, which is made directly from an image. This is acknowledged as a key achievement by its customers and has also received multiple awards from peers.
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