Vision-Related Hardware and Equipment Manufacturers and Vendors

Several main categories below are divided into three groups of links: (1) equipment vendors, (2) specialized manufacturers, (3) providers of related information.

Cameras, Lenses, Frame-Grabbers, etc.

• Image Labs (formerly Vision 1): cameras, frame-grabbers, lenses, lighting, customized hw; these guys are very helpful, reccommended - namely in the US.
• Subtechnique
• Imagenation

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• Tamron: good lenses (the U.S. site)
• Rodenstock (lenses, optics)
• Data Translation: frame-grabbers
• Matrox: frame-grabbers
• Pulnix: affordable but good digital cameras
  for technical support contact Ken at Pulnixapps@aol.com (as of 1997) data sheets
• Cohu CCD cameras
  very fast technical support; contact: William McPheeters (bmcpheeters@cohu.com), Customer Service Manager (as of 5/12/99)
• Roper Scientific special cameras, see also
  • Photometrics GmbH: a division of Roper Scientific; high-performance cooled CCD cameras
  • Encyclopedia
• DVC: `digitalized' cameras with TC-245 CCD sensor
• PCO Computer Optics GmbH: high performance CCD cameras
• Silicon Mountain Design (SMD): CCD cameras
• Spectral Instruments CCD based analytical instrumentation systems for science, nitrogen cooled cameras
• CycloVision (formerly OmniCam): omnidirectional cameras

Optics, Optical Equipment

• Oriel Instruments
• Newport Corp.
• Melles Griot
• Spindler & Hoyer
• THORLABS, Inc.
• Midwest Optical Systems (mounted filters for machine vision apps) [11/4/2003]

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• Krochmann GmbH: photometry, radiometry, colorimetry
• Dolan Jenner: fiber optics and lighting
• Speirs Robertson: optical tables, breadbords

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• The Photonics Resource Center (links galore)
• Down East: electro-optical components
• ISA Directory of Instrumentation: company search
• CO-OP: interesting links

Pan-Tilt Units, etc.

• Directed Perception: camera pan-tilt units
• Arrick Robotics: low-cost computer-controlled positioning tables, etc.

Local GPS, Precise Pose Measurement

• LuxWess - Dynamic Robot Measurement System (TU-Vienna)
• Micro-Radian Instruments: precision aligning of miniature mirrors and reading heads

Vision Systems

• The ShapeSnatcher Fast structured-light 3D scanner (Eyetronics)
• Triclops Real-time trinocular stereo (U of British Columbia)
• MiniVISTA Real-time optical flow (Fraunhofer-Institut)
• C3D 3-D camera (The Turing Institute)
• RIEGL Large-scale laser ranngefinders
• Visual Interface, Inc. Face reconstruction
• faceSCAN by Breuckmann Face and body part reconstruction

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• Computer Vision Homepage Links

General "Scientific" Products

• Edmund Scientific (US): mainly optics, simple laboratory equipment
• Fisher Scientific (UK): laboratory chemicals and equipment