Machine Vision

Dear Colleagues,

For many years, machine vision solutions have been widely accepted in structured and well-controlled situations for measuring dimensions, visual inspection, object positioning, robot guidance, and the like.

Thanks to the progress in computer vision, along with ever-increasing computational power, extremely sophisticated visual sensors, and optics, machine vision solutions are gradually shifting out from the factory floor and into less structured and only partially controlled environments, e.g., agriculture, transportation, surveillance, medicine, and sports.

This Special Issue aims at filling the gap between ‘pure’ machine vision and ‘general’ computer vision solutions. Papers addressing either unconventional applications of machine vision, or innovative and better solutions to the existing applications, or preferably both, are invited.

Topics of interest include:

• Machine vision for flexible production and process control, machine vision metrology, visual inspection of surfaces, colors, and shapes.
• Machine vision for robotics and autonomous systems, robot guidance, navigation, manipulation, positioning, assembly, and disassembly.
• Machine vision for security and safety, surveillance, traffic monitoring, environmental monitoring.
• Machine vision for automotive industry, vehicle guidance and driver assistance.
• Machine vision for agriculture and food industry.
• Machine vision for health care, ambient assisted living, medicine, and sports.
• Embedded machine vision.

Prof. Stanislav Kovačič
Guest Editors

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