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Image Processing Basics: The Background

06.07.2009 - Image processing in industrial applications often is much simplified when the lighting device provides an image with a homogeneous background. Such a situation allows for robust...

Optical Metrology Basics: Spectral Sensors

03.07.2009 - A spectral sensor is a miniaturized spectrometer equipped with a detector array. The spectrometer spreads the incoming bunch of rays according to wavelengths, and the detector...

Image Processing Basics: Shape Detection

03.07.2009 - Human visual perception is excellent in detecting shapes of objects. Even small children will easily differentiate between circles, squares or triangles when wooden toys or sweets...

Image Processing Basics: Edge Detection

03.07.2009 - Extracting quantitative features of objects from a scene is one of the major tasks in industrial image processing: the diameter and the position of a hole are typical examples...

Optical Metrology Basics: Telecentric Lenses

03.07.2009 - Conventional lenses for industrial image processing are "entocentric" with image formation in central projection. This perspective often is quite a nuisance for metrology...

Yes, We Can

03.07.2009 - Despite some warning clouds on the horizon, long-term prospects for machine vision sales in North America remain positive. The short-term outlook is not quite as rosy however. In...

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