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News Release from: UK Industrial Vision Association
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Team on 05 November 2007
Vision handbook released online
The basic principles and requirements of machine vision remain largely unchanged in the last 15-20 years.
The UK Industrial Vision Association (UKIVA) has released the latest revision of The Machine Vision Handbook, available as a 16-page PDF from its website It can be downloaded from the association's website
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 7 Dec 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Although there has been a huge leap forward in machine vision technology, both in terms of hardware and software over the last 15-20 years, the basic principles and requirements of machine vision remain largely unchanged.
The Machine Vision Handbook was first published in January 1997, and has been updated with financial assistance from the Photonics Knowledge Transfer Network.
UKIVA Director, Don Braggins, said: "In spite of all the advances in software and hardware, it is surprising how little had to be changed for the new edition, which remains a basic guide to the technology and does not go into any details of actual hardware or software".
"Probably the biggest change editorially was to remove some of the statements about the limitations of the technology and to acknowledge that an additional method of getting three dimensional information is to use a 'time-of-flight' camera, something simply not possible in earlier days".
Chapters include: 'The use of machine vision', 'How does a vision system work?', 'What can vision systems do?', 'Financial justification for machine vision' and 'Interfacing with suppliers'.
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