Machine Vision: Enabling computers to derive meaningful information from digital images, videos and visual inputs

By Fouad Sabry

What Is Machine Vision

Machine vision (MV) refers to both the technology and the methodologies that are used to deliver imaging-based automated inspection and analysis for applications such as automatic inspection, process control, and robot guiding, which are often utilized in industrial settings. Machine vision is an umbrella term that encompasses a wide variety of technologies, software and hardware products, integrated systems, activities, approaches, and expertise. Computer vision, which is a subfield of computer science, and machine vision, which is a systems engineering subject, may be differentiated from one another. It makes an effort to combine already existing technology in novel ways and use them in the process of finding solutions to issues that occur in the real world. This is the name that is most often used for these activities in situations involving industrial automation; nevertheless, it is also used for these functions in other environments, including those involving vehicle guidance.

How You Will Benefit

(I) Insights, and validations about the following topics:

Chapter 1: Machine vision

Chapter 2: Computer vision

Chapter 3: Thermography

Chapter 4: Gesture recognition

Chapter 5: Smart camera

Chapter 6: Glossary of machine vision

Chapter 7: Outline of computer vision

Chapter 8: InspecVision

Chapter 9: Outline of object recognition

Chapter 10: Active vision

Chapter 11: Structured-light 3D scanner

Chapter 12: Visual servoing

Chapter 13: Visual odometry

Chapter 14: Vision Guided Robotic Systems

Chapter 15: 3D stereo view

Chapter 16: Mikrotron-GmbH

Chapter 17: Air-Cobot

Chapter 18: Objective vision

Chapter 19: Egocentric vision

Chapter 20: Zivid

Chapter 21: Rita Cucchiara

(II) Answering the public top questions about machine vision.

(III) Real world examples for the usage of machine vision in many fields.

(IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of machine vision' technologies.

Who This Book Is For

Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of machine vision.

• Language: English
• Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
• Release date: Jul 10, 2022

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Emerging Technologies in Entertainment

1 - Computer Generated Imagery

2 - Immersion Into Virtual Reality

Emerging Technologies in Finance

1 - Distributed Ledger

2 - Digital Currency

3 - Decentralized Finance

Emerging Technologies in Information and Communications Technology

1 - 6G Network

2 - Ambient Intelligence

3 - Artificial Brain

4 - Artificial General Intelligence

5 - Augmented Reality

6 - Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor

7 - Civic Technology

8 - DNA Digital Data Storage

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Emerging Technologies in Optoelectronics

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Emerging Technologies in Space

1 - Artificial Gravity

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4 - Inflatable Space Habitat

5 - Reusable Launch System

Emerging Technologies in Transport

1 - Airless Tire

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3 - Ion Propelled Aircraft

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5 - Adaptive Compliant Wing

6 - Fluidic Flight Controls

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One Billion

Knowledgeable

Machine Vision

Enabling computers to derive meaningful information from digital images, videos and visual inputs

Fouad Sabry

Copyright

Machine Vision Copyright © 2022 by Fouad Sabry. All Rights Reserved.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review.

Cover designed by Fouad Sabry.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

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Preface

Why did I write this book?

The story of writing this book started on 1989, when I was a student in the Secondary School of Advanced Students.

It is remarkably like the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Schools, which are now available in many advanced countries.

STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering, and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied approach. This term is typically used to address an education policy or a curriculum choice in schools. It has implications for workforce development, national security concerns and immigration policy.

There was a weekly class in the library, where each student is free to choose any book and read for 1 hour. The objective of the class is to encourage the students to read subjects other than the educational curriculum.

In the library, while I was looking at the books on the shelves, I noticed huge books, total of 5,000 pages in 5 parts. The books name is The Encyclopedia of Technology, which describes everything around us, from absolute zero to semiconductors, almost every technology, at that time, was explained with colorful illustrations and simple words. I started to read the encyclopedia, and of course, I was not able to finish it in the 1-hour weekly class.

So, I convinced my father to buy the encyclopedia. My father bought all the technology tools for me in the beginning of my life, the first computer and the first technology encyclopedia, and both have a great impact on myself and my career.

I have finished the entire encyclopedia in the same summer vacation of this year, and then I started to see how the universe works and to how to apply that knowledge to everyday problems.

My passion to the technology started mor than 30 years ago and still the journey goes on.

This book is part of The Encyclopedia of Emerging Technologies which is my attempt to give the readers the same amazing experience I had when I was in high school, but instead of 20th century technologies, I am more interested in the 21st century emerging technologies, applications, and industry solutions.

The Encyclopedia of Emerging Technologies will consist of 365 books, each book will be focused on one single emerging technology. You can