Good Bye 2019 !<\/p>\n
Just back from the yearly Harvest Imaging Forum 2019, and then it is time to reflect back on 2019.\u00a0 The year was very busy again, but not just because of the work with Harvest Imaging, but also because I lost my last parent.\u00a0 Unfortunately these things happen if one gets older, at a particular moment, your parents\u2019 life is coming to an end \u2026<\/p>\n
As far as the business of Harvest Imaging is concerned, it was a kind of another year very similar to the previous ones.\u00a0 Courses continued, public as well as in-house trainings were added and added.\u00a0 It is really amazing how many companies are working in the digital imaging field, and how many fresh engineers start an imaging career.\u00a0 Digital image capturing was, is and will be a growing activity.\u00a0 Many companies are looking after (experienced) imaging engineers, our profession still has a great future !<\/p>\n
Harvest Imaging continued with the consulting activities as well.\u00a0 All this type of work is protected by NDA\u2019s and more information about the content of the projects cannot be revealed.<\/p>\n
The project about reproducibility, variability and reliability of CMOS imagers was continued.\u00a0 Another 1000 measurements are added to the list I had already.\u00a0 On a very short term the 7th<\/sup> characterization session in a row of 10 (to cover a span of 5 years) will start.\u00a0 Then all cameras will be placed on the testbench and will be measured over and over again ! \u00a0The characteristics of the cameras\/sensors at room temperature seem to be very predictable, but things change drastically when the temperature and the humidity of the stressing conditions are increased.\u00a0 Another experiment is started in 2019 : putting the devices under a strong light source that is simulating sun light.\u00a0 Also in this experiment surprising first results are obtained, but many more measurements and stress moments are needed before a final conclusion can be taken.\u00a0 As is very often the case : a new measurement raises two new questions !<\/p>\n On a more general technical and scientific level, 2019 was a another year with an International Image Sensor Workshop, held at Snow Bird (Utah, US).\u00a0 In combination with ISSCC and IEDM, again great technical and scientific achievements were published, a lot of material to study and a lot of stuff to learn from.\u00a0 Thanks for all the authors to bring their work into the public domain, it is an incredible source of information where the imaging community can learn from.<\/p>\n So now that 2019 is almost completed, the question is : \u201cWhat will 2020 bring ?\u201d.\u00a0 The technical courses and trainings of Harvest Imaging will continue, that is for sure.\u00a0 Several courses are already booked.\u00a0 A new course will be added to the existing basket : \u201cThe colour pipeline of a CMOS camera\u201d.\u00a0 It is a kind of a chapter out of the course \u201cDigital camera systems\u201d (a 4-days course that existed already), which is extended to cover 2 days.\u00a0 Besides that, some crazy idea exists to start with a two-week Summer School.\u00a0 Harvest Imaging is working with potential customers to see whether there could be enough interest to justify a commercial success of such an initiative.\u00a0 Something to look forward to.<\/p>\n Wishing all my readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.\u00a0 \u201cSee\u201d you soon.<\/p>\n Albert, 15-12-2019.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good Bye 2019 ! Just back from the yearly Harvest Imaging Forum 2019, and then it is time to reflect back on 2019.\u00a0 The year was very busy again, but not just because of the work with Harvest Imaging, but also because I lost my last parent.\u00a0 Unfortunately these things happen if one gets older, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harvestimaging.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}