Surface Inspection Techniques - Using the Integration of Innovative Machine Vision and Graphical Modelling Techniques

✍ Scribed by Smith, M.L.

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book brings together novel concepts in machine vision, computer graphics, and three-dimensional modelling, in solving real practical inspection problems. Automated inspection of three-dimensional shape and the analysis of both two- and three-dimensional surface defects and texture patterns, represents one of the most challenging and rapidly developing applications for machine vision today.

This is the first book to include a comprehensive review of existing techniques for defect detection. It goes on to develop a new approach to the problem of shape analysis, surface inspection, and texture classification. A simple, low-cost demonstrator system is described. Using a fixed camera and fixed computer-controlled illumination system, this innovative approach offers potential for new applications, considered to be beyond the capabilities of existing inspection techniques. A thorough treatment of underlying theory is given, including sufficient detail to allow application to real inspection tasks. Numerous example applications are discussed across several industrial sectors.

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Front Matter
• Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Automated Surface Inspection
3. An Alternative Surface Description
4. Reflection Models
5. Reconstruction of Acquired Surface Detail
6. Experimental Work
7. Analysis of Surface Defects
8. Experimental Work
9. Example Case Study Applications in Industrial Machine Vision Surface Inspection
• 10. Overview of a Generic Inspection System
11. Conclusions and Future Work
• References
Appendices
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index