Due to the advances in the digitalization process of the manufacturing industry and the
resulting available data, there is tremendous progress and large interest in integrating …

Electronics industry is one of the fastest evolving, innovative, and most competitive
industries. In order to meet the high consumption demands on electronics components …

Automated visual inspection is an image-processing technique for quality control and
production line automation. This paper reviews various optical inspection approaches in the …

Manufacturing is undergoing a paradigmatic shift as it assimilates and is transformed by
machine learning and other cognitive technologies. A new paradigm usually necessitates a …

Suppliers of metallic components with high-precision surfaces are facing a trend towards
zero-defect tolerance regarding their finishing. Because of the lack of standardization and …

With the development of consumer electronics industry, it is inevitable for the industry to use
machine vision instead of manual inspection. In this paper, the defect detection of 3C glass …

Many new DCT-like transforms have been proposed since the first edition of this book. For
example, the integer DCT that yields integer transform coefficients, the directional DCT to …

This paper attempts to illustrate the technology evolution for describing the emergence,
development, or demise of a technology field. The basic idea is to divide a technology field …

Success or failure of an IC product hinges on the quality of molding process which protects
chips from the harm done by external force and moisture. Defects such as cracks …

This paper presents a machine vison method based on mathematical morphology for defect
detection in machined surfaces that contain circular tool-marks. The traditional morphology …