Wilson’s Websites

Wilson’s Websites brings you the latest information on what’s new on the web. To accomplish this, we provide links to tutorial information, hardware or software product developments, product database information, technical articles, associations, and on-line magazines. If you or your company would like to be considered for Wilson’s Websites, please contact Andy Wilson at andyw@pennwell.com.

Sewer inspection

vision.cmit.csiro.au/project/
Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) has built several custom machine-vision systems including those for timber grading, sewer inspection, and license-plate recognition.

Wafer inspection

www.ornl.gov/sci/ismv/
Oak Ridge Laboratory Image Science and Machine Vision Group has performed research in biomedical imaging, industrial inspection, and security systems. On its Web site, you can find descriptions of automatic classification of semiconductor wafers, image retrieval, and spatial signature analysis.

Ask a question

vsd.pennnet.com/forum/
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Do you have a question that you would like to ask other machine-vision and image-processing professionals? If so, check out the Vision Systems Design Feedback Forum found at the bottom of the home page.

Machine design

www.istech-inc.com
Istech provides design, fabrication, programming, installation, and service of machine automation and vision inspection systems. Some of the company’s systems include those for 2-D Matrix Code label verification, inspecting the integrity of connectors, and part presence inspection.

Artificial intelligence

www.aaai.org/AITopics/html/vision.html
On this interesting page from the American Association of Artificial Intelligence (AI), the author explores some of the latest developments in machine vision. These include tutorials, news, and links to other relevant AI-based vision sites.

Tons of papers

www.kirjasto.oulu.fi/
english/julkaisutoiminta/
The University of Oulu in Finland allows users to access many on-line papers about machine-vision systems. Go to this site, type in “machine vision” in the search engine, and you will be presented with technical papers ranging from color machine vision to robot-guided neurosurgery.

Color spaces

www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/color_spaces.htm
Although primarily written for users of digital cameras, scanners, and printers, this tutorial on color spaces includes descriptions of RGB, CMYK, and sRGB and features interactive 3-D VRML gamut plots that let you examine color ranges from a number of perspectives.