Machine vision / Theory, algorithms, practicalities
- 2nd ed
- UK Academic Press 1996
- 768p., 229 x 152mm, 185 b&w illustrations, index, paperback
- A Volume in the Signal Processing and Its Applications Series .
ICT This edition contains material on artificial neural networks, mathematical morphology, motion, invariance, texture analysis, x-ray inspection and foreign object detection. Intermediate level vision is examined in depth (especially Hough transforms), and automated visual inspection is discussed.
Introduction - vision, the challenge. Part 1 Low-level processing: images and imaging operations; basic image filtering operations; thresholding techniques; locating objects via their edges; binary shape analysis; boundary pattern analysis. Part 2 Intermediate-level processing: line detection; circle detection; the Hough transform and its nature; ellipse detection; hole detection; polygon and corner detection. Part 3 Application level processing: abstract pattern matching techniques; the three-dimensional world; tackling the pespective n-point problem; motion; invariants and their applications; automated visual inspection; statistical pattern recognition; biologically inspired recognition schemes; texture; image acquisition; the need for speed - real-time electronic hardware systems. Part 4 Perspectives on vision: machine vision, art or science?.