1. Research Areas M. Shridhar and J. Miller Pattern Recognition Fast Image Processing Techniques Image Analysis Algorithms Pattern Recognition Techniques Automatic Gauging Algorithms Low-Cost Machine Vision Systems Color and Multispectral Analysis

2. Machine Vision Applications  Glass inspection: containers, panels, fibers, glasses  Auto components: wheels, fittings, stampings,  Tool gauging  Color matching  Multispectral analysis  Electronic displays

3. Crosshead Examples

4. Overall Inspection Approach

5. Surface Inspection Setup Screen

6. Effect of Polarizer (bottom) Good PartStone present Good Part Stone present

7. Power Steering and Brake Hose Images Power Steering Connector Brake Hose Crimp

8. Gear Teeth Inspection The gear teeth are clearly visible using the given telecentric setup. An image processing technique called mathematical mor- phology can be used to detect the teeth.

9. Geometry Station

10. Interferometric Measurements

11. Basic 3-D Measurement Setup

12. Typical Views of Oil Drill Tool

13. Check Processing Examples

14. Occupant Classification Vision sensors for occupant classification Classification using stereo images Classification using Hall Effect sensors

15. License Plate location and recognition Extract license plate from image of car Morphological processing of LP image to extract characters Use OCR and context to recognize license plate

16. Voice Recognition Applications Recognition of speakers and discrete spoken words for many applications Considerable work has been done in related signal processing areas also including spectral analysis.