Machine Vision
Machine vision is the application of computer vision to industry and manufacturing and most
often requires also digital input/output devices and computer networks to control other manufacturing equipment such as robotic arms.
Machine Vision applications are used for quality control, security and surveillance, environment, entertainment, medicine and so on.
It uses cameras and image processing software to perform inspections.
A typical machine vision system will consist of several among the following components:
- One or more digital or analog cameras (black-and-white or color) with suitable optics for acquiring images
- Camera interface for digitizing images (widely known as a "frame grabber")
- A processor (often a PC or embedded processor, such as a DSP)
- (In some cases, all of the above are combined within a single device, called a smart camera)
- Input/Output hardware (e.g. digital I/O) or communication links (e.g. network connection or RS-232) to report results
- Lenses to focus the desired field of view onto the image sensor
- Suitable, often very specialized, light sources (LED illuminators, fluorescent or halogen lamps etc.)
- A program to process images and detect relevant features
- A synchronizing sensor for part detection (often an optical or magnetic sensor) to trigger image acquisition and processing
- Some form of actuators used to sort or reject defective parts
Machine Vision Resources
Machine Vision
Glossary of Machine Vision Terms - from Aberration to Zoom Lens
Another Machine Vision Glossary - Common definitions related to the machine vision field from Wikipedia
Machine Vision Resources - Machine Vision Directory
Applications of machine vision - from British Machine Vision Association and Society for Pattern Recognition
Machine vision online - From AIA (Automated Imaging Association)
Machine Vision Unit home page - academic research group
Machine Vision algorithm - New algorithm improves robot vision
Machine Vision Group - Imaging technologies Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana
EMVA - European Machine Vision Association
The British Machine Vision Association - provides a national forum for individuals and organisations involved in machine vision, image processing, and pattern recognition in the United Kingdom.
Learning and Vision Group Robotics and Machine Vision - MIT Projects
Machine Vision Laboratory - UWE: Faculty of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences
Machine Vision Group - University of Oulu
Computational Vision - Caltech
Machine Vision and Applications - journal
Imaging & Machine Vision - magazine
How should control engineers use machine vision? - article on Machine Vision applied to Control Engineering
Machine Vision : Theory, Algorithms, Practicalities - large number of experimental design and evaluation procedures
Image Processing, Analysis, and Machine Vision - deep coverage of topics encountered in image processing and machine vision
Machine Vision Algorithms and Applications - up-to-date textbook for machine vision software
Machine Vision - introduction to the field of computer vision
Machine Vision algorithms in Java - algorithms and techniques associated with machine vision systems
Machine Vision 4 Users - Machine Vision blog
Machine vision and image processing technology magazine
Computer Vision
Introduction to computer vision
Another introduction: Computer Vision and Speech - The ACM Student Magazine
Computer Vision For Beginners: A Developer's Platform
Compendium of Computer Vision - Robert B. Fisher, CVonline: The Evolving, Distributed, Non-Proprietary, On-Line Compendium of Computer Vision
Annotated Computer Vision Bibliography - Maintained by Keith Price
Clearer computer vision - Nikos Paragios, École Centrale Paris
Recent advances in computer vision - by Massimo Picardi and Tony Jan ( Human-computer interfaces / Voice / Video surveillance )
Computer vision reasearch groups
Computer vision homepage - Carnegie Mellon University
Computer vision reasearch groups
Computer Vision Group - UC Berkeley Computer Vision
Computer Vision Group - The University of Wisconsin-Madison Computer Vision Group
Computer Vision Lab - KEUCHI Laboratory, Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo
Computer Vision Resources large active link directory
Computer Vision Blog (Spanish)
Visionary - A Dictionary of terminology in vision research