Lipson named "Technology Pioneer"
Staff -- Test & Measurement World, 3/1/2003
The World Economic Forum of Geneva, Switzerland, has honored machine-vision innovator Dr. Pamela Lipson and her company Imagen as one of its 40 "Technology Pioneers of 2003." The awards were announced in October and were presented during the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland, in January.
Dr. Lipson invented technologies for recognition and analysis of complex visual and image-based information. (Dr. Lipson and a co-author discuss the concepts in "Another point of view in machine vision," p. M8.) Teradyne has licensed the technology and will introduce it in a new family of machine-vision systems at APEX in Anaheim, CA, on March 31.
Dr. Lipson and her colleagues originally developed the concepts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. The Imagen technology delivers intelligent image analysis and object recognition to "test" visual objects collected in a composite image, such as a printed-circuit board. Dr. Lipson's approach includes built-in tolerance to variation in normal object appearance to reduce recognition times and false calls.
