光学の基礎から画像取得、人間や動物の視覚、画像処理、センサー、画像認識による製品の計測など多方面な応用とその具体的なテクノロジーを網羅したハンドブック。Equips the reader with the practical details required to engineer integrated mechanical-optical-electronic-software systems. Machine vision is first set in the context of basic information on light, natural vision, colour sensing and optics. The physical apparatus required for mechanized image capture - lenses, cameras, scanners and light sources - are discussed followed by detailed treatment of various image-processing methods including an introduction to the QT image processing system. QT is unique to this book, and provides an example of a practical machine vision system along with extensive libraries of useful commands, functions and images which can be implemented by the reader. The main text of the book is completed by studies of a wide variety of applications of machine vision in inspecting and handling different types of object.