IST brings research benefits to industry
As part of the drive to ensure that research results will be taken up more by industry, a project funded by the European Union's Information society technologies programme (IST) named EUTIST-IMV will be taking place in Edinburgh focusing on 'machine vision'. EUTIST-IMV (European take up of essential information society technologies - integrated machine vision) will take place at the EPCC, a technology transfer centre based at the university of Edinburgh, Scotland and is due to run until 2003. The EPCC will be working with two European partners (Germany's CiS Institut für Mikrosensorik and Finland's Satakunta Polytechnic) on 10 industrial projects in which they will apply machine vision to various products and processes. Machine vision technology uses computers to interpret digital images of products and production processes. The participants in the programme will include manufacturers of paper, textiles, vehicles and safety glass. A representative of EPCC said that the centre's experience of transferring research results to industry made it a natural choice for the European Commission.