Early December 2025 the 11th Harvest Imaging Forum was organized. Prof. Robert Henderson (Univ. Edinburgh) did a fantastic job to technically entertain a group of 30 professionals during 2 days. From experience I can tell that it is pretty difficult and exhausting to make sure that the participants keep their focus on the high-level technical [ ]
Incredible to belief that another year has passed by. Everything is moving so quickly, at least for us who are living in peace. Other people are facing other times. The world is turning, I hope it will not turn away (Uncle Neil in On The Beach). In the beginning of 2024 I said goodbye to [ ]
During the last days of 2023, it is again an interesting moment to look back over the last 12 months. Many things have changed in the world, unfortunately not only for the better. It is really sad to report that the military imaging business is booming due to the many deadly conflicts humanity is facing. [ ]
On Monday, 20 February, I attended the Image Sensor Session at ISSCC 2023. It provided over eight talks and interesting mix of presentations. The most noticeable change with this year’s session was the large presence of event-driven image sensors versus the single presentations each on SPAD-based and on small pixel mobile devices. The other presentations [ ]
Time is flying, and again another year has (almost) passedby. A first year post-covid ?! At least what we have seen and experienced are again in-person meetings and conferences. My very first in-person gathering since 26 months was the Image Sensors Europe conference in London. It was such a pleasure to see that many old [ ]
Another year passed by, and what a kind of year ? No travel, no face-to-face meetings, no in-person conference or workshops, all gatherings on-line. But nevertheless we survived, actually we had to make use of the technology we all helped to develop ourselves. At least now I can show to my grandchildren when they follow [ ]
In 1981 my PhD project entered the last phase : design of a CCD line array, fabricate the device with the newly developed ITO gates and the newly developed polyimide isolation layer. In the 3 years before, I researched the implementation of ITO in an existing CCD process, and the fabrication of a new CCD [ ]
What an incredible year 2020 was ! Who could have forecasted this 12 months ago ? Normally I am on the road about 50 % of my working time. In 2020 I returned on March 12th from the Image Sensor conference in London and since then I have been at home, I could even [ ]
Actually I do not know whether the next story exactly happened 40 years ago, but at least around that time. As a young PhD student we were invited to act as daily coach for MSc students who were working on their thesis project. And because my own PhD project was focusing on CCDs, also the [ ]
“A 0.8V multimode vision sensor for motion and saliency detection with ping-pong PWM pixel” by the National Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan. Energy-efficient always-on motion detection (MD) sensors are in high demand and are widely used in machine vision applications. To achieve real-time and continuous motion monitoring, high speed low-power temporal difference imagers with corresponding processing [ ]