Beschreibt die Hardware und Software, die bei industriellen Anwendungen der Bilderfassung und Bildverarbeitung erforderlich ist, und deckt die neuesten Fortschritte im 3D-Bereich ab.

The editor, Alexander Hornberg, worked as development and software engineer in industry. Since 1997 he has been working in the field of machine vision in an academic environment. He is Professor for Image Processing and Applied Optics at the University of Applied Sciences Esslingen, Germany.
All contributors to this work are written by practitioners from leading companies which operate in the field of computer vision.