Image Processing with LabVIEW™ and IMAQ™ Vision

Chapter 1. Introduction and Definitions

This chapter contains information about some fundamental things you may find useful before we get started. The Introduction deals with more details about the book’s structure, hardware, software, and network requirements and recommendations. In the Definitions section some terms, which are used later in this book, are defined. An introduction to IMAQ™ Vision Builder completes the chapter.

Introduction

Electronic image processing is a rapidly evolving technology. Because of the decreasing prices of digital cameras, image processing and analysis applications are within a price category that was reserved for cheap sensor and measurement arrangements only a few years ago. Using a camera as a “universal sensor” ...