{"id":4459,"date":"2025-03-26T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stvision.com\/machine-vision-solutions\/?p=4459"},"modified":"2025-09-04T15:42:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T19:42:54","slug":"ids-imaging-%ce%bceye-xcp-e-event-based-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stvision.com\/machine-vision-solutions\/2025\/03\/ids-imaging-%ce%bceye-xcp-e-event-based-camera.html","title":{"rendered":"IDS Imaging \u03bcEye XCP-E Event-based cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The \u03bcEye XCP-E event-based camera<\/a> utilizes Sony’s Prophesee IMX636 sensor. So, by design, it captures only<\/strong> relevant image changes. Event-based imaging<\/a> can be a game changer for certain applications. Unlike area scan or line scan imaging – which capture every pixel and render a “full image” – event imaging only senses and delivers changes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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IDS \u03bcEye XCP-E housed camera (leftmost) and forthcoming XLS-E board level models – Courtesy IDS Imaging<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Event-based imaging captures the changes:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Left: uEye XCP-E image vs. Right: Area scan image – Courtesy IDS Imaging<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Less is more<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Playing on the “less is more” adage reveals key insights into event-based imaging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The human eye is adept at delivering and entire scene, of course, and that’s how most of us imagine we see the world around us. But our overall vision perception also builds upon the eye’s ability to sense brightness changes<\/a> within small segments of the overall scene..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider a baseball batter awaiting a pitched ball. The overall scene is relatively static: the outfield fence, bases, and foul lines aren’t moving. And the infielders are almost static – relative to the motion of the ball. But the pitched ball approaching at 80 – 90 miles per hour can be identified by a good batter, to gauge “strike or ball” and “swing or take”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The batter’s visual processing does NOT have time to capture the full scene at each instant of “ball release”, “just released”, “mid-way”, and “arriving soon”. Rather, the ball’s trajectory is discerned as successive changes against a static background. So too with an event-based camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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