To extract a greater quantity of information from captured images, camera and systems vendors are turning to multispectral cameras.
Today, the demand for low-cost visible sensors has grown to a point where visible 4k × 1 linescan and 2k × 2k area-array-based cameras are now commonplace. CCDs or CMOS sensors in machine-vision cameras provide a number of specific benefits to the developers of machine-vision and image-processing systems. Just as these cameras are becoming commodity items, however, vendors of detectors, cameras, and systems are exploring ways to add value to their cameras while providing additional features to their customers.
