Machine vision and image processing enable many applications and impact numerous markets, from industrial applications in factories producing semiconductor chips, printed circuit boards (PCBs), or other electronics, to biomedical devices such as pharmaceutical needles, pregnancy test kits, and DNA assay arrays. All forms of packages and packaging, from paper and cardboard to plastic and glass, are tracked, inspected, and managed by machine vision systems that use optical character recognition (OCR) and optical character verification (OCV). Quality control and quality assurance functions are also ensured by vision technology. Image processing and machine vision are increasingly aiding applications in areas such as renewable energy, agriculture, transportation, defense, surveillance, remote sensing, research, microscopy, and biometrics. In addition, vision-guided robotics (VGR) is playing an increasingly important role in all of these markets.

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