Machine vision is the use of imaging hardware, software, and analysis methods to inspect, interpret, or guide action based on visual information. It is commonly applied in industrial automation, quality control, process monitoring, and robot guidance, and overlaps with but is not identical to computer vision.
The technology and methods used to provide imaging-based automatic inspection and analysis for such applications as automatic inspection, process control, and robot guidance, usually in industry. Machine vision is a term encompassing a large number of technologies, software and hardware products, integrated systems, actions, methods and expertise. Machine vision as a systems engineering discipline can be considered distinct from computer vision, a form of computer science. It attempts to integrate existing technologies in new ways and apply them to solve real world problems. The term is the pr