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Article: Machine vision systems struggle for definition.
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- Mechanical Engineering-CIME
- Article date:
- July 1, 1992
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The basic technology behind machine vision systems has been available for decades, but their widespread deployment has been restrained by cost and complexity. Today, machine vision systems are at work in a variety of industrial applications, mostly those that are well defined and clearly structured.
Machines designed to perform the work of humans are fabricated in their creators' image, in function if not in form. Given the importance of eyesight to most humans, the development of machine vision seems a natural evolution.
While improvements have been made to the hardware and software components of machine vision systems to achieve finer resolution under ...