06.07.2009
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06.07.2009
- Pepperl+Fuchs is a worldwide operating manufacturer of sensors and components for process and automation technology. Their portfolio encloses, among others, camera-based systems...
06.07.2009
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03.07.2009
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03.07.2009
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03.07.2009
- Extracting quantitative features of objects from a scene is one of the major tasks in industrial image processing: the diameter and the position of a hole are typical examples...
03.07.2009
- Conventional lenses for industrial image processing are "entocentric" with image formation in central projection. This perspective often is quite a nuisance for metrology...
03.07.2009
- There was a legend in the ancient orient that someone might obtain the insight by hard anneal and self-cultivation, and the Bible also described that our human ancestors had...
02.07.2009
- Students of the Vienna Technical University autonomously developed a prototype of a formula racing car. The TU's Institute of Production Engineering assisted the team in measuring...
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