Course CM0369

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Course CM0369 CMT911Machine Vision

• A course of 22 lectures
• Second Semester, 2004-5

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Lecturer

• Prof. Bruce Batchelor, BSc, PhD, DSc, CEng, CITP,
  FIEE, FBCS,
• FSPIE, FSME, FRSA
• Office South 2.18B
• Laboratory South 2.21
• Tel. [phone] or 029 20 875 532
• Email bruce.batchelor_at_cs.cf.ac.uk
• Tutorial assistant Simon Caton

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Work Load

• 22 one-hour lectures
• 6 one-hour tutorials
• 2 one-hour laboratories (QT)
• About 40 hours of private study
• Course work Two 40min. tests (total 25)
• Examination (75, 2 hours) page limit)

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Mathematics

• Low level (GCSE)
• Used for notation not for analysis
• BUT a mathematical mind is important

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Applications

• Inspection
• Industry
• Food
• Surveillance
• Robot / machine control
• Manufacturing
• Autonomous guided vehicles

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Image Acquisition

• Lighting and viewing
• Camera
• Array
• Line scan
• Range
• Non-visible imaging
• IR
• UV and fluorescence
• X-ray

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Representing Images

• Array representation
• Grey scale, binary, colour, stereo, image
  sequences
• Bandwidth of human eye, television and film
• Binary images, other representations
• Run code
• Chain code
• Polar vector representation

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Image Processing

• Grey-scale images
• Binary images
• Colour recognition

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Image Analysis

• Measuring
• Position
• Orientation
• Size
• Angles
• Analysing
• Shape
• Texture

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Typical applicationsTopics discussed in lectures
may vary

• Playing card, find suit and value
• Gear, counting teeth
• Dissect small plants
• Pick up objects with a robot (2 examples)
• Inspect glass vial
• Identify brake pads for automobiles
• Recognise printed characters

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Software

• QT (home grown)
• MatLab
• P-QT (home grown)
• CIP (Home-grown)
• MyriadIP (Home-grown)
• PIP (demonstration only)
• NeatVision
• NIH Image

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Books Item 1 replaces courses notes - other
notes supplied as needed

• B. G. Batchelor P. F. Whelan, Intelligent
  Vision Systems for Industry, Springer Verlag,
  London Berlin, 1997, ISBN 3-540-19969 1. Now
  available on-line at http//www.eeng.dcu.ie/whela
  np/ivsi/
• B. G. Batchelor F. M. Waltz, Intelligent
  Machine Vision Techniques, Implementation
  Applications, Springer-Verlag, London, 2001,
  ISBN 3-540-76224-8.
• 3. B. G. Batchelor, Intelligent Image Processing
  in Prolog, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1991, ISBN
  0-540-19647-1.
• 4. B. G. Batchelor, F. M. Waltz, Interactive
  Image Processing, Springer Verlag, New York,
  1993, ISBN 3-540-19814-8.
• 5. B. G. Batchelor P. F. Whelan (editors),
  Industrial Vision Systems, SPIE Milestone
  Series, vol MS 97, pub. SPIE - The International
  Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham WA,
  U.S.A., ISBN 0-8194-1580-4.
• 6. M. Graves B. G, Batchelor, "Machine Vision
  for the Inspection of Natural Products", Springer
  Verlag, in press (June 2003).

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Questions ?
B. G. Batchelor P. F. Whelan, Intelligent
Vision Systems for Industry, Springer Verlag,
London Berlin, 1997, ISBN 3-540-19969 1. URL
www.eeng.dcu.ie/whelanp/ivsi/ Only a low level
of Mathematics. However, a mathematical mind is
helpful.