Intense Technologies provides consulting services for  applications of machine vision, computer vision and image  processing. The firm's primary expertise is developing  techniques for extracting information from digital images.  Services provided include: - Turnkey solutions to custom imaging applications, - Algorithm development, - Software development, - Hardware design and prototyping, and - Systems analysis and integration. Intense Technologies was started in September 1991. Since then  it has provided consulting services to at least eighteen firms,  applying expertise in computer vision to applications such as: - Finding red marker tape in aerial images, - Inspecting pulp chips to detect contaminants, - Detecting the centroid of a laser beam image, - Counting the entry and exit of transit passengers, - Feasibility of using depth from de-focus on space station  robotics, - Tracking the 3D location of a patient's head during PET scans, - Automated grading of lumber, - Gauging of wood strands, - Counting skipped dots in half tone print, - Saw blade tooth gauging, - Pattern matching for 3D spine visualization after scoliosis  surgery, - Counting vitamin pills in plastic packets, - Grading used golf balls, and - Digital web monitoring and break recording. The Principal Engineer of Intense Technologies is John Ens,  Ph.D., P.Eng., who has had seventeen years experience in  imaging.  He has published seven papers and holds three patents.