Event-based imaging is one of the most ground-breaking innovations in the field of machine vision since the advent of artificial intelligence in this area. It enables the efficient optical recording of movements with almost seamless temporal resolution. This is made possible by new sensors, such as the Sony IMX636, which was developed in collaboration with Prophesee. It precisely registers smallest changes in brightness in a scene and transmits these pixel by pixel as motion data. At the same time, it ignores an infinite amount of static data. In direct comparison to conventional image-based systems, this drastically reduces the volume of data for transmission and processing. This opens up completely new possibilities for industrial and non-industrial applications, such as the optical monitoring of vibrations with 1-pixel accuracy or high-speed motion analyses of the smallest objects without the influence of lighting conditions.

In this talk, we will explain how the new event-based IDS camera uEye EVS works, point out fields of application that were previously hardly possible with conventional image processing technology and demonstrate how the new sensor technology can be integrated into applications.