Vision and Information Processing for Automation

by Arthur Browne

1. Introduction.- 2. Signal Processing for Intelligent Automation.- 3. Introduction to Machine Pattern Recognition.- 4. Scanning Systems.- 5. Optics and Lighting.- 6. Nonvision Sensors, Range Finders, and Processing.- 7. Robot Systems.- 8. Human and Machine.- 9. Robot Vision Systems and Applications.- 10. Hardware for Intelligent Automation.- 11. Case Studies.- 12. Future Directions.

500 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 1986

About the author

Arthur Browne is the recently retired editor and publisher of the New York Daily News, where he spent over four decades reporting on and shaping the story of New York City. Throughout his career, he chronicled the administrations of six mayors, from Abe Beame to Bill de Blasio, and coauthored I, Koch, a biography of Mayor Ed Koch. As editorial page editor, he led the Daily News team that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for a powerful series of editorials exposing the health crisis faced by 9/11 rescue and recovery workers.