A survey on industrial vision systems, applications and tools

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 171-188

  Malamas, Elias N ^a   Petrakis, Euripides G M ^a   Zervakis, Michalis ^a   Petit, Laurent ^b   Legat, Jean Didier ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Automated visual inspection; Image analysis; Image processing; Machine vision

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FACTORY AUTOMATION; HARDWARE; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SENSORS; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

AUTOMATED VISUAL INSPECTION;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0037428974     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0262-8856(02)00152-X     Document Type: Review

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