Development of an automatic post-sawing inspection system using computer vision techniques

Computers in Industry

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 51-60

  Zhang, Jiun Ming ^a   Lin, Ruey Ming ^a   Wang, Mao Jiun J ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; FACTORY AUTOMATION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSPECTION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL;

AUTOMATIC POST-SAWING INSPECTION SYSTEMS; WAFER INSPECTION;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

EID: 0032674546     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-3615(99)00009-3     Document Type: Article

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