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Article: Machine Vision Comes of Age.
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- Control Engineering
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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C.G. Masi, Control Engineering
Engineers find machine vision can replace more complex point-sensor-based systems.
When I first started dealing with machine vision technology about 35 years ago, digital cameras were a laboratory curiosity, frame-grabber boards were just arriving as commercial products, and image processing was a black art. As vision technology matured, image sensors grew to multi-megapixel resolution, while frame grabbers grew in sophistication and eventually merged into the camera's electronics. Finally, cameras even absorbed image processing computers as well. Imaging software-originally a library of utilities for functions called ...