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Machine vision is for the most part a passive sensing process. Except in the case of active ranging systems (discussed in Volume II), MV relies heavily on the passive reception by a video sensor of light reflected from a scene or target. More often than not (and certainly more often than is appreciated by many MV practitioners), the characteristics of the light sources can have a significant impact on the performance of an MV system. When unstable illumination conditions exist, signal processing grows rapidly in complexity.
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If the information isn’t in the image to begin with, the best processing available isn’t going to give good results.
K.G. Harding (1989)
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© 1996 Michael W. Burke
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Burke, M.W. (1996). Lighting II: Sources. In: Image Acquisition. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0069-1_2
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