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Leading organizations worldwide are relying on AIA’s annual market study to help withstand the global recession and to position themselves for sales success during the upcoming recovery.  Now more than ever, machine vision companies are fine-tuning their sales strategies based on the latest market intelligence from AIA to maximize their sales.   Not a collection of industry statistics but instead a thorough analysis of the economy and its impact on product markets and trends.  You cannot afford to be without this valuable compendium of market intelligence during these challenging times!

This study, the best ever prepared by AIA, includes in-depth product details for components and systems, a comprehensive look at market and technology trends, and identification of major market participants.  A must-have sales aid for machine vision and imaging companies:

• Learn how the recession is affecting machine vision companies and when relief is expected
• Gain new insights about market opportunities in two, new high-growth industries, the MEMs (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) and the solar panel/cell industry
• Find out what's selling and what's not
• What is the future of machine vision? Gain a sense of where the machine vision industry' is headed
• Learn about new geographic market opportunities in Latin America
• Learn about emerging applications and product trends

With the new AIA market study you will gain:

• A thorough explanation of how the global recession is affecting machine vision sales and market opportunities
• Market overviews that are comprehensive, insightful, actionable and yet easier to read
• Actionable market intelligence to drive your sales success
• 2008 sales results and forecasts out to 2013
• 21 chapters, 11 of which are completely new
• An updated look at GigE Vision™ camera sales

AIA Markets Study includes:

• A full-color, printed Executive Summary highlighting key study findings
• A CD loaded with a PDF version of the study

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THE AIA MACHINE VISION MARKET STUDY: SALES MAXIMIZATION THROUGH MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

Camera Link® is a communication interface for vision applications. The interface allows for interoperability between digital cameras and frame grabbers following a standardized specification. (Version 1.2)

The most comprehensive optics reference ever published is now available on one convenient disk! This unique CD-ROM contains all 3,500 pages of the classic, two-volume Handbook of Optics--fully indexed and hyperlinked. Users can search quickly, read pages on screen, print them as needed on any laser printer, and even import sections into any Windows-compatible work processor. Written by 84 of the top names in optics, packed with a wealth of vivid illustrations and data, this handbook provides not only exhaustive reference materials but also tutorial guidance in every topic area. It's simply the most essential guide in the optics industry--in an essential new format.

A new volume in the field's bestselling options reference--an entirely new opus focusing on x-ray, nonlinear, and vision optics. Provides the same mix of tutorial writing with in-depth reference material that distinguished Volumes I & II.

Table of contents

• Introduction
• X-Ray Optics
• Capillary Optics
• Detectors
• Optical Issues in Medicine/Lithography
• X-Ray Telescopes
• X-Ray Microscopes
• Film Coatings
• Sources
• Nonlinear Optics
• Raman Effect with Tables of Shifts
• Photorefractivity
• Chi3 Processes
• Laser Damages
• Applications
• Generation of Other Wavelength Light Sources
• Optical Limiters
• Passive Q Switches
• Photrefractive Optics
• Vision Optics
• Optics for Virtual Reality
• Biomedical Optics
• Applications
• Classical Optics
• Diffractive Optics
• Photographic Film Advances
• Applications of CCDs and Advanced Imaging Detectors
• IR Telescopes
• Radio Telescopes
• Appendices
• 4 Volume Index

Representing an evolutionary leap, the integration of optical technologies into mechatronic systems adds a new dimension to an already multifaceted field. Optical elements enhance the functionality of mechatronics and in many cases introduce entirely new capabilities. Likewise, mechatronic elements bring the same synergistic effects to optical systems. However, most books focus on traditional mechatronics while only briefly discussing, or omitting completely, the characteristics of optomechatronic technology. Bringing together the fundamentals and underlying concepts, Optomechatronics provides a detailed introduction to this growing field.

With emphasis on the importance of interdisciplinary, multiple-technology fusion, this book threads together the background, definition, and characteristics of the field with an integrated view of various disciplines, a system-oriented approach, and a combined view of the macro/micro worlds. It begins with an analysis of a variety of practical optomechatronic systems to identify the underlying concepts and features of each area composing the field. These systems include optics, machine vision, feedback control, and micro-opto-mechanical systems (MOEMS). From this platform, the author demonstrates how to fuse the optical, mechanical, electronic, and microprocessor elements to realize desired functionalities. Finally, the book examines whole optomechatronic systems comprising the components described in the previous section.

Whether you are new to the field or have experience in a different engineering discipline, Optomechatronics supplies the necessary tools to harness the benefits that optical technologies bring to this important emerging area.

Here is a handy compilation of 300 cost-saving, think-on-your-feet photonics rules of thumb designed to save you hours of design time and a world of frustration. Within seconds you can accurately gauge the impact of a suggested design change on your project. It is the premiere collection of these valuable rules in a single, quick look-up reference.

These simple-to-implement calculations allow you to rapidly pinpoint trouble spots, ask the right questions at meetings, and are perfect for quick sanity checks of last-minute specifications or performance feature additions. Offering a convenient alphabetical arrangement according to specialty, this unique reference spans the entire spectrum of photonics, including:

* Eighteen chapters covering optics, electro-optics, optics of the atmosphere, radiometry, technologies related to security and surveillance systems, lasers, and many others.
* If you want to develop a sense of what will work and what won’t and want the calculations to keep things real, Photonics Rules of Thumb belongs on your desk or in your pocket.

Table of contents
Chapter 1: Acquisition, Tracking, and Pointing/Detection, Recognition, and Identification
Chapter 2: Astronomy
Chapter 3: Atmospherics
Chapter 4: Backgrounds
Chapter 5: Cryogenics
Chapter 6: Detectors
Chapter 7: Displays
Chapter 8: The Human Eye
Chapter 9: Lasers
Chapter 10: Material Properties
Chapter 11: Miscellaneous
Chapter 12: Ocean Optics
Chapter 13: Optics
Chapter 14: Radiometry
Chapter 15: Shop Optics
Chapter 16: Systems
Chapter 17: Target Phenomenology
Chapter 18: Visible and Television Sensors
APPENDIX A
GLOSSARY
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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Nature meets the Evil Genius via 54 fun, safe, and inexpensive projects that allow you to explore the fascinating and often mysterious world of natural phenomena using your own home-built sensors. Each project includes a list of materials, sources for parts, schematics, and lots of clear, well-illustrated instructions.

• Projects include: rain detector, air pressure sensor, cloud chamber, lightning detector, electronic gas sniffer, seismograph, radiation detector, and more

Image algebra is a comprehensive, unifying theory of image transformations, image analysis, and image understanding. In 1996, the bestselling first edition of the Handbook of Computer Vision Algorithms in Image Algebra introduced engineers, scientists, and students to this powerful tool, its basic concepts, and its use in the concise representation of computer vision algorithms.

Updated to reflect recent developments and advances, the second edition continues to provide an outstanding introduction to image algebra. It describes more than 80 fundamental computer vision techniques and introduces the portable iaC++ library, which supports image algebra programming in the C++ language. Revisions to the first edition include a new chapter on geometric manipulation and spatial transformation, several additional algorithms, and the addition of exercises to each chapter.

The authors-both instrumental in the groundbreaking development of image algebra-introduce each technique with a brief discussion of its purpose and methodology, then provide its precise mathematical formulation. In addition to furnishing the simple yet powerful utility of image algebra, the Handbook of Computer Vision Algorithms in Image Algebra supplies the core of knowledge all computer vision practitioners need. It offers a more practical, less esoteric presentation than those found in research publications that will soon earn it a prime location on your reference shelf.

Image processing is fast becoming a valuable tool for analyzing multidimensional data in all areas of natural science. Since the publication of the best-selling first edition of this handbook, the field of image processing has matured in many of its aspects from ad hoc, empirical approaches to a sound science based on established mathematical and physical principles.

The Practical Handbook on Image Processing for Scientific and Technical Applications, Second Edition builds a sound basic knowledge of image processing, provides a critically evaluated collection of the best algorithms, and demonstrates those algorithms with real-world applications from many fields. It covers all aspects of image processing, from image formation to image analysis, and gives an up-to-date review of advanced concepts. Organized according to the hierarchy of tasks, each chapter includes a summary, an outline of the background the task requires, and a section of practical tips that help you avoid common errors and save valuable research time.

New in the Second Edition:
• Expanded application areas now include technical fields such as the automotive industry, quality inspection, and materials science
• More practical tips in each chapter
• Discussion of digital camera interfaces and a comparison of CMOS vs. CCD cameras
• A section on wavelets
• Advanced techniques for reconstruction, new segmentation methods based on global optimization and anisotropic diffusion, and additional classification techniques, including neural networks, polynomial classification, and support vector machines

Just as digital image processing provides the key to studying complex scientific problems that researchers once could only dream of tackling, this handbook unlocks the intricacies of image processing and brings its power and potential within the grasp of researchers across the spectrum of scientific and engineering disciplines.

This text is an in-depth reference containing:

• current discussions on dimensionality reduction and feature selection
• novel computer system architectures
• practical concerns of image processing and pattern recognition
• New and expanded sections on Fisher's discriminant, wavelet transformation and the method of principal components
• Detailed appendicies with data sets illustrating key concepts
• Proven algorithms for solutions to common roadblocks in data processing

This text contains useful information on:

• The fundamentals of digital signal processing
• sampled data systems, including digital filtering
• frequency domain processing, including Fourier Transforms
• adaptive system identification and filtering
• wavenumber sensor systems
• signal processing applications