Synopses & Reviews
Machine Vision technology is becoming an indispensible part of the manufacturing industry. Biomedical and scientific applications of machine vision and imaging are becoming more and more sophisticated, and new applications continue to emerge. This book gives an overview of ongoing research in machine vision and presents the key issues of scientific and practical interest. A selected board of experts from the US, Japan and Europe provides an insight into some of the latest work done on machine vision systems and appliccations.
Table of Contents
Contents: P.J. Besl: Active Optical Range Imaging Sensors.- J.K. Aggarwal, C.H. Chien: 3-D Structures from 2-D Images.- D. Poussart, D. Laurendeau: 3-D Sensing for Industrial Computer Vision.- K.H. Hedengren: Methodology for Automatic Image-Based Inspection of Industrial Objects.- O. Silvén, I. Virtanen, T. Westman, T. Piironen, M. Pietikäinen: A Design Data-Based Visual Inspection System for Printed Wiring.- H. Jeong, B.R. Musicus: Extracting Masks from Optical Images of VLSI Circuits.- W.E. Blanz, J.L.C. Sanz, D. Petkovic: Control-Free Low-Level Image Segmentation: Theory, Architecture, and Experimentation.- C. Guerra, S. Levialdi: Computer Vision: Algorithms and Architectures.- D.B. Shu, G. Nash, C. Weems: Image Understanding Architecture and Applications.- S. Sasaki, T. Gotoh, M. Yoshida: IDATEN: A Reconfigurable Video-Rate Image Processor.- R.M. Lougheed, D.L. McCubbrey, R. Jain: Applying Iconic Processing In Machine Vision.- References.- Index.