Events 2026

On this page you will find a list of upcoming or ongoing events in which Fraunhofer IOSB's Department Visual Inspection Systems (SPR) is involved or which we organize ourselves.

You can access past events via the links in the blue box, right.

We invite you to join us - we would be delighted to meet you at one of these events!

 

 

Girls'Day - Girls' Future Day at the IOSB

April 23, 2026 in Karlsruhe, Germany

Girls'Day aims to make technical, scientific, trade and IT professions in particular more attractive to girls and young women.

In addition to practical experience, female role models in STEM subjects are the key to encouraging girls to learn a profession in this field. The key message of the 2017 Microsoft study was that girls can be inspired to pursue STEM disciplines through female role models and more practical experience.

Fraunhofer IOSB will be represented again this year with five workshops.
We are participating with a workshop:

👉 Become a technical tinkerer and start soldering! 🔧✨ 

"Solder your own nameplate and build an astable tilt stage (flashing circuit)."
  Supervisor: Marcel Göttel and Britta Ost 

Image Processing Forum 2026

November 19-20, 2026 in Karlsruhe, Germany

Methods of image processing and their applications

Image processing plays a key role in many areas of technology for fast and contactless data acquisition. For example, in the quality assurance of industrial production processes, in robotics and for driver assistance, image processing systems have gained an indispensable place. This development is supported by the availability of high-quality and inexpensive sensor systems, by the increase in the performance of computer systems, and by advances in the methodology for evaluating image data.

The "Image Processing forum" aims to report on current trends towards solutions in image processing and to contribute to the professional exchange between the participants.

Seminar with practical course - Inspection and characterization of surfaces with image processing (German only)

Dezember 2-3, 2026 in Karlsruhe, Germany

Das patentierte System Purity des Fraunhofer IOSB erkennt und unterscheidet  zwischen Transparenzänderungen, Einschlüssen von Fremdkörpern und Luftblasen
© Fraunhofer IOSB
The inspection of surfaces is a classic field of industrial image processing and has been proven in many applications for many years.

Image Processing for Surfaces - Advances in technology not only enable ever higher inspection speeds and more compact systems, but also, in addition to the evaluation of two-dimensionally recorded textures, the complete recording of complex 3D surface structures down to the nanometer range. Furthermore, the rapid evaluation of colored, patterned, transparent, highly reflective or mirroring surfaces is possible. In the seminar, different inspection and analysis methods will be presented for this purpose.

This year, we are once again involved in the success of the event as co-organizers with lectures and workshops.