Machine Vision: Theory, Algorithms, Practicalities by Davies, E. R - 1990

London: Academic Press, 1990. Hardcover. Fine copy; previous owner cataloged all books in his library so the spine foot may contain traces of spine label adhesive residue; o/w the board are clean and free of shelf wear and bumps; pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; edges of pages are clean; binding is tight and square; a well-cared for copy.. Octavo in mint green boards; b&w illus.; 547 pp., 24 cm. In English. || From the library of Donald A. Glaser, inventor of the bubble chamber. Nobel Prize in Physics, 1961; Search keyword DGLSR to see dozens of volumes from The Glaser Collection; Series: Microelectronics and signal processing; Contents: part 1. Low-level processing. Images and imaging operations ; Basic image filtering operations ; Thresholding techniques ; Locating objects via their edges ; Binary shape analysis ; Boundary pattern analysis -- part 2. Intermediate-level processing. Line detection ; Circle detection ; The Hough transform and its nature ; Ellipse detection ; Polygon detection ; Hole detection ; Corner detection -- part 3. Application-level processing. Abstract pattern matching techniques ; The three-dimensional world ; Automated visual inspection ; Statistical pattern recognition ; Image acquisition ; The need for speed : real-time electronic hardware systems -- part 4. Perspectives on vision. Machine vision, art or science?