斯图加特国际机器视觉展览会（VISION）是机器视觉和识别技术行业最重要的国际型展览会之一，两年一届，在斯图加特举行。在斯图加特每年都会召开这一机器视觉行业的国际盛会，在该盛会上参展商会展示最新的科技创新成果，加强与已有合作伙伴的交流并发展新的贸易网络，这已成为一种惯例。斯图加特机器视觉和识别技术展览会和机器视觉行业及识别技术一起日趋成熟，如今已成为交流信息和产品展示的重要国际平台。它已成功地扩展了其应用领域，首先是在非工业方向的机器视觉。斯图加特机器视觉和识别技术展览会已成为全世界最重要，最高端的机器视觉专业平台，并成为许多合作伙伴的信用保障。特别说明该展原来一年一届，现决定取消2013年展期，转为两年一届，逢两年十一月份在斯图加特国际展览中心举行。
机器视觉行业内容广泛
VISION展示的产品和服务包罗万象，在这里没有解决不了的行业问题。现今值得关注的是以应用为核心的解决方案已成为一种趋势，换言之，除了体现展览会主题的机器视觉元件，例如摄像机、传感器、帧接收器等等，还包括机器视觉技术的具体应用。
通过3D机器视觉和高速摄像机在质量控制中的使用，质量水平越来越高，时钟速度越来越快，这些特征完全集成到了处理过程中。机器视觉系统速度快、免接触，无干扰，能探测出物体或其表面极小的缺陷，并且对结果进行分析并形成文件。在汽车工业中应用的展示：例如，轴向距离测量，漆面刮痕检测，或者汽车后端形状的检查就是通过机器视觉系统进行的。甚至，机器视觉技术已经开始成功地应用在例如环境保护/资源保护，生物测量学以及其他非机器视觉应用领域。
如今，不仅传统的机械工程、汽车、电气等纳入机器视觉技术的用户行业，很多新的应用行业也逐渐开始需要和渴望运用机器视觉技术，成为了展览会新的参观群体。
各种展会同期活动将再次为参观者和参展商提供真正视觉亮点。除了最全面的全球“工业视觉日”论坛（由VDMA机器视觉分会组织）；还有VISION大奖，此奖项授予机器视觉应用领域的优秀解决方案和突出贡献的企业。专业观众将有机会在“应用园区”近距离体验机器视觉；同时，“系统解决方案的集成区域”也将进一步扩大；“讲台讨论”将促进信息交流；“国际机器视觉标准”将展示当今行业的发展；刚接触机器视觉领域或对其知之甚少的人们将得益于由VISION研究院举办的高层研讨会；而年轻的机器视觉行业的创新公司将有机会在联邦经济技术部的联合展台上展示自己，公司的产品和服务。
展品范围(Show Products):
1、产品和服务：1.1 系统，1.2 组件，1.3 服务；
2、支持产业：2.1 农业，2.2 汽车行业，2.3 汽车供应业，2.4 先进驾驶辅助系统，2.5 生物工程，2.6 化工，2.7 印刷业， 2.8 零售，2.9 金属制品业，2.10 电工与电子行业，2.11 精密机械和光学等行业，2.12 玻璃生产和加工，2.13 橡胶、塑料和金属箔等行业，2.14 半导体生产，2.15 木材和木材，2.16 陶瓷生产， 2.17 皮革制造及加工，2.18 航空航天工业，2.19 机械制造，2.20 医疗器械行业，2.21 金属基本工业，2.22 显微镜，2.23 食品和饮料行业，2.24 纸和纸板， 2.25 医药和化妆品等行业， 2.26 光伏/太阳能产业，2.27 回收，2.28 造船， 2.29 安全技术和生物识别技术，2.30 体育，2.31电信，2:32 纺织和服装行业， 2:33 运输及物流，2:34 娱乐，2:35 交通/智能交通系统，2:36 国防/国防工程， 2:37 其他；
3、应用：3.1 条码识别，3.2 二维码识别，3.3 光学字符识别（OCR / OCV），3.4 安全系统，3.5 识别的对象/类型识别，3.6 位置识别，3.7 序列分析，3.8 质量检验，3.9 颜色检查，3.10 完整性检查/控制组件，3.11 打印检查，3.12 纹理分析，3.13 连续材料的表面检查，3.14 零件的表面检查 3.15 内联机器人视觉，3.16 3D机器人视觉，3.17 2D机器人视觉， 3.18 形状识别，3.19 测量和比较3D，3.20 测量和比较2D。
展会报告(Show Reports):
As part of the VISION Start-Up World, young companies also had the opportunity again in 2024 to raise their profile and position themselves against the competition by participating in the Pitch Sessions on the Forum stage. At the end of every exhibition day, the Start-up of the Day was chosen from among the participating innovators; an independent jury then selected the overall winner from among the day winners at the end of the trade fair. The coveted title of "VISION 2024 Start-up" was won this year by the French company Viziotix – Finding Every Barcode in Automation Solutions – which, in addition to clinching overall victory, was chosen as the Start-up of the Day on the second day of VISION 2024. Viziotix impressed the jury with an innovative software which turns every device containing a camera into highly efficient barcode scanners, including smartphones, robots and drones. The software also quickly and easily identifies damaged and hard to scan barcodes, for example in large images containing numerous codes or in poor light conditions. "It is an entirely new solution. The first applications are already running, and the reviews are extremely positive. That's the reason why we chose Viziotix," said jury member Martin Klenke, Director of Business Development at Teledyne Imaging and a member of the Executive Committee of the VDMA Machine Vision Association, in explaining the decision by the jury.
Tie between digital twins and holographic imaging
Choosing the day winners in the VISION Start-up World was not always easy. That's why there were two winners on the first day of the trade fair: Medabsy from Dingolfing in Bavaria and PxE Holographic Imaging from Israel. Medabsy showed by means of a Cloud-based platform how quickly and easily inspections are planned using digital twins and how synthetic images are created as training data for AI applications before the hardware is available. "Since this reduces project times and costs considerably, Medabsy could fundamentally change the market for system integration," said jury member Mark Williamson, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the VDMA Machine Vision Association. PxE Holographic Imaging scored points with holographic imaging. The technology makes it possible to simultaneous capture and merge high-resolution colour images, infrared images and pixel-level depth maps using a single, standard 2D camera. "Scaling opens up many applications which can replace conventional 3D camera technologies such as time-of-flight and stereo at potentially lower costs," said Williamson in explaining the choice of the second day winner.
Genuine no-code interface from India
The Start-up of the Day on the third day of VISION 2024 was the automation specialist Orama Solutions LLP from New Delhi with Orama-I, a genuine "no-code" interface for inspection. This interface offers both end users and system integrators the advantages of AI-based machine vision. "Orama-I can be used to create end-to-end solutions without any knowledge of machine vision or programming," said Donato Montanari, Vice President and Managing Director of the Machine Vision Division of Zebra Technologies and a member of the Executive Committee of the VDMA Machine Vision Association, in describing the award-winning solution. "The tool can easily be used intuitively, and is suitable for a large number of visual inspection applications."
In 2024 the VISION Start-up World was held for the third time and proved once again that the world's leading trade fair for machine vision is an important stepping stone for young companies in the industry. "We welcomed 24 start-ups from all over the world this year," said Florian Niethammer, VISION Project Manager. "We saw exciting product innovations in the areas of machine vision and computer vision, as well as future-oriented camera technologies, machine vision systems, and AI and deep learning software. We are already looking forward to VISION 2026 and seeing how the award-winning VISION 2024 Start-ups will have developed by then. And we are also naturally eager to see what newcomers will then present their company at the world's leading trade fair for machine vision in Stuttgart from 6 to 8 October 2026."
about VISION
VISION has been presenting the highlights of the international machine vision industry since 1988. In addition to first-rate exhibitors, the trade fair is characterised by its high degree of internationality and a varied accompanying programme. The next VISION will be held from 6 to 8 October 2026.
