Some Visual Inspection Problems in the Belgian Industry
Piet Dewaele1988
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Abstract
In this paper, we will review some visual inspection problems that were presented to our laboratory by a con- sortium of Belgian industrial companies. These problems were selected to serve as a test vehicle for a software pack- age, called LILY (Leuven Image processing Library), that was developed for the consortium by our laboratory. There- fore, this paper consists of
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