National Instruments (NI; Austin, TX, USA) is presenting a free, interactive vision webcast series April 6-8, 2010, featuring industry experts from integration firms and tool providers. The six-part series will let the audience explore fundamentals of industrial cameras, lighting, optics, and hardware systems as well as specialty techniques for infrared, 3-D, and medical imaging.Webcasts in the series include: How to Specify Vision System Hardware; The Sum and Substance of 3D Vision; Fundamentals of Optics and Illumination; Fundamentals of Optics and Illumination; Introduction to Thermography – Machine Vision Beyond the Visible; Cameras in Machine Vision; Image Processing for Medical Applications. Posted by Vision Systems Design