EPE462 Industrial Machine Vision

EPE462 Industrial Machine Vision

Course objective:
To learn the basic concepts in an
industrial machine vision system, including
system components, image acquisition,
image processing, segmentation, feature
extraction and classification, and apply the
knowledge gained to solve practical machine
vision and inspection problems.

What is meant by machine vision?

What is meant by machine vision?

Machine vision is the endowment of visual sense to
a machine
Machine vision is the ability of a machine to use
visual senses to perform a given task
Machine vision is the branch of engineering that
deals with the incorporation of visual sensing in a
machine to carry out at task
Machine vision is the integration of visual sensors
and software to perform a given task by a machine

What is meant by industrial machine vision?

Industrial machine vision - application of computer
vision to industry and manufacturing.

Formal definition of industrial machine vision

Machine vision is a sub-field of engineering that
encompasses computer science, optics, mechanical
engineering, and industrial automation.
Common applications of machine vision:

Typical applications of industrial machine vision

Manufacturing

Food industry

Machine vision
applications

Medical

Agriculture

Military

Typical applications of machine vision (ctd.)

Typical applications of machine vision (ctd.)

Typical applications of machine vision (ctd.)

Typical applications of machine vision (ctd.)

Typical applications of machine vision (ctd.)

STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES

TOPICS

1. Design of industrial
1. Describe the various elements of a generic vision
system model and explain how scene constraints can machine vision systems
be applied to simplify the image processing operation. 2. Scene constraints

2. Explain the transformation of optical image data into 3. Image acquisition

an array of numerical data including its representation,
sensing and digitization.
4. Image processing
3. Apply various image processing methods to
preprocess digital images to remove noise, remove
non-uniform background, improve contrast, remove
blobs, enhance features etc.
5. Segmentation
4. Partition an image into meaningful regions which
correspond to part of objects within the scene.
5. Extract features from images using image codes,
boundary based features, region-based features and
mathematical morphology.
6. Use template matching method, rule-based
classifiers and neural network for pattern recognition
and classification.

6. Feature extraction

Assessment:
Coursework:

40%
(10% test, 30% assignment/
quiz/project)

Examination:

60%

Teaching plan

7. Pattern classification

References:
1. R C Gonzalez, R E Woods, Digital Image Processing, 3rd
edition, Pearson.
2. D A Forsyth, J Ponce, Computer Vision A modern approach,
Prentice Hall; 2 edition
3. G W Awcock, R Thomas, Applied Image Processing, McGrawHill Companies

Assignment (2 students/group)
Theme: Application of machine vision to solve a practical
problem
In this assignment you are required to identify a practical
problem than can be solved using machine vision. The scope
of the problem should be limited to one or combination of the
following application areas: inspection, measurement, flaw
detection, pattern recognition and classification.
Part 1 (4 marks): One-page proposal write-up and presentation
Part 2 (20 marks): Final report, demonstration & viva