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Visual inspection of watermeters used for automatic calibration

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To be acceptable in industry, automatic visual inspection systems must be inexpensive, very accurate and should be flexible enough to accommodate changes in products. This flexibility can be reached if a modular concept that allows a quick and inexpensive adaption of the inspection process to any changes is used. This paper presents a concept where the detection of primitives is separated from the model-based analysis process. Existing pattern recognition software is re-used in the detection stage, allowing any detection algorithm to be tested and used without changing the analysis process. The visual inspection of analog watermeters serves for a demonstration of this concept.

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Roland T. Chin Horace H. S. Ip Avi C. Naiman Ting-Chuen Pong

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Sablatnig, R. (1995). Visual inspection of watermeters used for automatic calibration. In: Chin, R.T., Ip, H.H.S., Naiman, A.C., Pong, TC. (eds) Image Analysis Applications and Computer Graphics. ICSC 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1024. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60697-1_153

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