Method for evaluation of imaging in automated visual web inspection

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 2184-2196

  Laitinen, Jyrki ^a,b,c,d,e   Moring, Ilkka ^a,b,e,f,g  

^a Hungarian Physical Society   (Finland)

^b VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^c AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^d Valmet Corporation   (Finland)

^e International Society for Optical Engineering   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^g SOCIETY OF MANUFACTURING ENGINEERS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Automated visual surface inspection; Image quality; Modulation transfer function; Web inspection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010256271     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601439     Document Type: Article

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