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Intelligent Image Processing in Prolog

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Bruce G. Batchelor

    1. School of Electric, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Cardiff, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVIII
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  2. Vision and Intelligence

    • Bruce G. Batchelor
    Pages 1-14

  3. Fundamentals of Prolog+

    • Bruce G. Batchelor
    Pages 15-76

  4. Operating Environment

    • Bruce G. Batchelor
    Pages 77-99

  5. Extending the Language

    • Bruce G. Batchelor
    Pages 101-126

  6. Analysing Vector Representations of Images

    • Bruce G. Batchelor
    Pages 127-149

  7. Robot and Lighting Control

    • Bruce G. Batchelor
    Pages 151-173

  8. Further Applications

    • Bruce G. Batchelor
    Pages 175-261

  9. Advanced Inspection Techniques

    • Bruce G. Batchelor
    Pages 263-315

  10. Multi-Processing and Other Ideas for the Future

    • Bruce G. Batchelor
    Pages 317-337

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 339-372
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After a slow and somewhat tentative beginning, machine vision systems are now finding widespread use in industry. So far, there have been four clearly discernible phases in their development, based upon the types of images processed and how that processing is performed: (1) Binary (two level) images, processing in software (2) Grey-scale images, processing in software (3) Binary or grey-scale images processed in fast, special-purpose hardware (4) Coloured/multi-spectral images Third-generation vision systems are now commonplace, although a large number of binary and software-based grey-scale processing systems are still being sold. At the moment, colour image processing is commercially much less significant than the other three and this situation may well remain for some time, since many industrial artifacts are nearly monochrome and the use of colour increases the cost of the equipment significantly. A great deal of colour image processing is a straightforward extension of standard grey-scale methods. Industrial applications of machine vision systems can also be sub­ divided, this time into two main areas, which have largely retained distinct identities: (i) Automated Visual Inspection (A VI) (ii) Robot Vision (RV) This book is about a fifth generation of industrial vision systems, in which this distinction, based on applications, is blurred and the processing is marked by being much smarter (i. e. more "intelligent") than in the other four generations.

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  • School of Electric, Electronic and Systems Engineering, Cardiff, UK

    Bruce G. Batchelor

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