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• 02-26-2013 : Part of Harvest Imaging’s business is coming from training and courses, in-house as well as public ones. Education is a key success factor for the engineers working in the field of digital imaging. But not just high-technical level education is a strength, everything starts with basic education for young children.
  Based on this ground rule, Harvest Imaging decided to contribute to the education of children in countries where schools are not for granted.
  Financial support is given to a non-profit organization, called CUNINA, who makes sure that help and care is given to the right children and the right projects.
  Take a look at the Cunina website.



• 01-26-2012 :
  Albert Theuwissen elected Electronic Imaging Scientist 2011
  
  Albert Theuwissen, professor at the Delft University of Technology (Delft, the Netherlands) and CEO of Harvest Imaging (Bree, Belgium) was elected Electronic Imaging Scientist 2011 at the Electronic Imaging conference, one of the world’s largest events in the field of digital image sensors, electronic cameras and their applications, held in San Francisco from January 23rd-26th. Every year academic and industrial researchers from all over the world who are active in this field choose a colleague who has made valuable contributions to it. This year the honor was conferred upon Theuwissen, who has an impressive career in the field of image sensors.
  
  “Theuwissen has demonstrated excellence and commanded the respect of his peers by making significant and substantial contributions to the field of electronic imaging via research, publications, and/or service which led to this award,” Majid Rabbani and Gaurav Sharma, the chairmen of this year's award committee, said.
  
  From 1983 to 2002 Theuwissen worked with Philips Research in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, on charge-coupled devices (CCDs), also called bucket brigade memories, first as a researcher, and later as department head of the research group involved in digital image sensors. When this group ended up being part of the Canadian company DALSA in 2002, Theuwissen as chief technology officer was responsible for all research and technical development in that company.
  
  In the early days of digital image sensors CCDs generated images of better quality than image sensors made with CMOS-technology, the prevailing semiconductor technology. Today most image sensors that are part of video cameras, photo cameras and cameras in mobile communication equipment, are made in CMOS technology. Theuwissen was involved in research concerning all aspects of image sensors: pixel size, speed, sensor size, sensitivity, …
  
  In 2007 Theuwissen left DALSA and founded Harvest Imaging, a company involved in consultancy, coaching and training in the field of digital image sensors. Projects range from specification of image sensors for specific applications to forensic research in homicide cases. Furthermore, he is co-founder of ImageSensors Inc, a non-profit public organization serving the R&D-workers in the field of image sensors by investigating their needs and looking after their interests. He has written more than 160 scientific papers and is, amongst other things, an IEEE Fellow.
  
  From 2001 onwards, Theuwissen has been professor at the Delft Technical University where he teaches solid-state image sensors and supervises master students and PhD students in their research work. Unfortunately he was unable to attend the award ceremony in person because one of his students had to defend his PhD thesis on the same day.
  
  



• 09-01-2011 : I am very pleased to announce the publication of the book "Single-Photon Imaging". This edited book is a joint cooperation with a great friend of mine, Peter Seitz. For those interested, the book is published by Springer (ISBN 978-3-642-18442-0). You can buy it here or here.
  



• 01-20-2011 : Albert theuwissen will give a 0.5 day workshop at the upcoming Image Sensors Europe conference, to be held in London (UK). The workshop is planned for Tuesday March 22nd, 2011.



• 10-06-2010 : Albert Theuwissen will give a 1-day course at the upcoming Electronic Imaging Conference in San Francisco, Jan. 23th, 2011. The title of the course will be "Color Imaging Pipeline of Digital Cameras".



• 06-16-2010 : Albert Theuwissen will give an invited talk at the upcoming Photokina in Cologne (Germany). The presentation is scheduled on September 24th, and is entitled : "Sensors getting worse, Images getting better".



• 06-16-2010 : The course "Basic Introduction to CMOS Image Sensors", originally planned for end of November, is rescheduled : new date is September 1-2, 2010 ; new location is Delft, the Netherlands.



• 02-07-2010 : On May 6th 2010, Albert Theuwissen will give a presentation at the upcoming CMOS Imaging Workshop organized by IMS Fraunhofer Institute in Duisburg. To get more information, please follow this link : http://www.ims.fraunhofer.de/fileadmin/media/41617_41617_IMS_Fraunhofer_Flyer_Workshop.pdf



• 01-08-2010 : Harvest Imaging and Image Engineering join forces to develop a software tool that simulates the behaviour of image sensors! Have a look at the press release.



• 01-07-2010 : A new course will be introduced : "Hands-on Measurements and Evaluations of Solid-State Image Sensors".
  This new training will be the very first ever in digital imaging that will make use of hands-on equipment to allow the participants to perform real-life measurements in the class-room.
  Eight different measurement set-ups will be available to evaluate image sensor's parameters such as : dark current, dark FPN, leaking pixels, defect pixels, light sensitivity, light FPN, conversion gain, and many more.
  The first edition of this new course is scheduled for Nov. 25-26, 2010 in Barcelona.



• 10-24-2009 : On November 24 and 26, Albert Theuwissen will be giving guest lectures in Rio de Janeiro en Belo Horizonte, Brazil.



• 07-20-2009 : Albert has just released his Harvest Imaging blog! You can find it here.



• 03-16-2009 : Albert Theuwissen will be the General Chair of the 2009 International Image Sensor Workshop (IISW), to be held in Bergen (Norway), June 25-28, 2009. He will also serve as the International Technical Program Chair of the 2010 International Solid-State Circuits conference, to be held in San Francisco (CA), February 6-11, 2010.



• 01-06-2009 : A new initiative is set up with respect to the courses offered by Harvest Imaging : for the first time two courses will be organized in the same week. This duo consists of a 3-day course (CMOS Image Sensors : technology and applications) and a 2-day course (Advanced CMOS image sensors). The content of the two courses will be adapted so that there will be no overlap between the two courses. Participants have the following choices :
  
  - Participation in the 3-day course, and get familiar with the fundamentals of CMOS image sensors,
  
  - Participation in the 2-day course, and get acquainted with the most up-to-date developments in CMOS image sensors,
  
  - Participation in both courses, then it will look like a 5-day course on CMOS imagers, starting with the basics and ending with the state-of-the-art in the CMOS image sensing world.