A Versatile Hardware and Software Toolset for Computer Aided Inspection Planning of Machine Vision Applications

Surface Inspection Planning Using 3D Visualization

“…The inspection region selection is made easier by offering a variety of filters to make the selection faster as well as more precise. While the general object exploration and inspection region selection could have been partly done using tools such as [4], [8] or [3], the presented work combined useful features in one place, and exposed them keeping the needs and intuition of an inspection planning engineer (e.g. precise bounding box selection so that it could be done based precise specification, or selection of a specific edge, not all).…”

“…The work focused on the impact and use of illumination profiles on image acquisition, therefore we consider his work to be focused on the evaluation aspect of the inspection planning. Irgenfried et al [7], [8] explored the possibility of using rendered images as a mean to develop a data set for testing machine vision algorithms for edge detection. The process was later made part of a toolset for computer aided inspection planning.…”

“…Focus of the tool lies on the object space exploration, annotation of 3D models, as well as evaluation and modification of both viewpoint candidates and calculated optimal viewpoints. In contrast to [8] and [15], it is not a realistic simulation of the sensed image, but a visualization tool providing insight into the spatial distribution of the viewpoints and their impact on the object in terms of coverage.…”