Course detail

Machine Vision

FSI-VSV-AAcad. year: 2025/2026

The course provides an overview of the principles of digital image formation and its subsequent processing for visual inspection tasks in industrial production.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

5

Assignment to study programme types

Master's

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Pavel Škrabánek, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Automation and Computer Science (ÚAI)

Entry knowledge

Expected to have basic knowledge of algorithms, programming, and of fundamental concepts in mathematics and physics.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Knowledge and skills are verified by credit and examination. Credit requirements: elaboration of a given practical task. Attendance at lectures is recommended, while attendance at practical sessions is mandatory. Practical sessions that a student is unable to attend in the regular term can be made up during a substitute term. The exam is oral and covers the entire course material.

Aims

To acquaint students with basic principles of interaction of radiation with matter, with instrumentation for applications of computer vision in industry, and with image processing methods used in machine vision applications. 

 

At the end of the course, the students will be able to:

  • select appropriate instrumentation for various machine vision applications,
  • design appropriate installation of the instrumentation,
  • create data processing parts of machine vision systems for basic machine vision applications.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

A Practical Guide to Machine Vision Lighting. Automated Test and Automated Measurement Systems - National Instruments [online]. National Instruments, 2019, 30. ledna 2017 [cit. 2019-02-19]. Dostupné z: http://www.ni.com/white-paper/6901/en/
BATCHELOR, Bruce G. Machine vision handbook: with 1295 figures and 117 tables [online]. 1. London: Springer, [2012] [cit. 2019-02-19]. ISBN 978-1-84996-169-1. Dostupné z: https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007%2F978-1-84996-169-1
SZELISKI, Richard. Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications [online]. 1. London: Springer, 2010 [cit. 2019-02-19]. Texts in computer science. ISBN 978-1-84882-935-0. Dostupné z: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781848829343

Recommended reading

HAVEL, Otto. Strojové vidění I: Principy a charakteristiky. Automa. Automa – časopis pro automatizační techniku, s. r. o., 2008, 14(1), 42-45. ISSN 1210-9592.
HAVEL, Otto. Strojové vidění II: Úlohy, nástroje a algoritmy. Automa. Automa – časopis pro automatizační techniku, s. r. o., 2008, 14(2), 54-56. ISSN 1210-9592.
HAVEL, Otto. Strojové vidění III: Kamery a jejich části. Automa. Automa – časopis pro automatizační techniku, s. r. o., 2008, 14(3), 42-44. ISSN 1210-9592.
HAVEL, Otto. Strojové vidění IV: Osvětlovače. Automa. Automa – časopis pro automatizační techniku, s. r. o., 2008, 14(4), 47-49. ISSN 1210-9592.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-ENG-Z Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, recommended course

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Pavel Škrabánek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  1. Introduction, interaction of radiation with matter, formation of images, parts of computer vision systems for industrial applications, typical applications of machine vision

  2. Lighting geometry and its effect on the final image, radiation sources for machine vision, lighting in the visible, infrared and ultraviolet spectrums

  3. Lenses with perspective projection - focal length, aperture and basic concepts related to perspective projection, intermediate rings, depth of field, lens defects and their compensation, lens resolution, telecentric lenses

  4. Photodiode, CMOS sensors, electronic shutters, quantum efficiency of image sensors, formation of digital images, camera electronic circuits and their impact on noise in images

  5. Optical filters and their use in machine vision, multispectral imaging, instrumentation for machine vision (line and area-scan digital cameras, light sources, optical filters, lenses)

  6. Design of the instrumentation part of a machine vision system (task processing, data collection and evaluation, documentation)

  7. Image histogram, intensity scale transformation, geometric transformations, interpolation

  8. Introduction to spatial domain filtering, restoration of noise-affected images, edge detection

  9. Image segmentation

  10. Morphological transformations and their applications in image processing

  11. Evaluation of processed images (shape detection, blob detection, measurement of distances and angles)

  12. Image classification

  13. Object detection in images

Laboratory exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Pavel Škrabánek, Ph.D.

Syllabus

  • Introduction to the subject matter, laboratory safety procedures
  • Installation and operation of illuminators, lens Installation and adjustment, working with optical filters
  • Connection and configuration of industrial cameras
  • Software for design and implementation of image processing pipelines
  • Design and implementation of a computer vision system for a given task