Usually, to find a hole in an image, its shape must be known and corrections made to account for perspective distortion or hole surface orientation.Not so with this algorithm. As a heuristic vision algorithm, this hole finder seeks edge patterns which correspond to holes --any promising holes.The algorithm uses neighborhood operators applied in both horizontal and vertical strips to locate the hole centers.
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