1 Basic Concepts. - 1. 1 Industrial Vision Systems. - 1. 2 Systems Engineering. - 1. 3 Intelligent Vision. - 1. 4 Book Outline. - 2 Basic Machine Vision Techniques. - 2. 1 Representations of Images. - 2. 2 Elementary Image Processing Functions. - 2. 3 Binary Images. - 2. 4 Binary Mathematical Morphology. - 2. 5 Grey Scale Morphology. - 2. 6 Global Image Transforms. - 2. 7 Texture Analysis. - 2. 8 Implementation Considerations. - 2. 9 Commercial Devices. - 2. 10 Further Remarks. - 3 Intelligent Image Processing. - 3. 1 Interactive Image Processing. - 3. 2 Introducing PrologH-. - 3. 3 Review of Prolog. - 3. 4 The Nature of Prolog+. - 3. 5 Prolog+Programs. - 3. 6 Abstract Concepts in Prolog+. - 3. 7 Implementation of Prolog+. - 3. 8 Comments. - 4 Enhanced Intelligent Systems. - 4. 1 Prolog+ Environment: A Tool-box for Machine Vision. - 4. 2 Understanding Simple Spoken Instructions. - 4. 3 Aids for Designing Vision Systems. - 4. 4 Multi-camera Systems. - 4. 5 Comments. - 5 Controlling External Devices. - 5. 1 Devices and Signals. - 5. 2 Protocols and Signals. - 5. 3 Programmable Logic Controller. - 5. 4 General Purpose Interface Unit. - 5. 5 Flexible Inspection Cell Design Issues. - 5. 6 Prolog+ Predicates for Device Control. - 5. 7 System Calibration. - 5. 8 Picking up a Randomly Placed Object (Overhead Camera). - 5. 9 Grippers. - 5. 10 Summary. - 6 Colour Image Recognition. - 6. 1 Introduction. - 6. 2 Applications of Coarse Colour Discrimination. - 6. 3 Why is a Banana Yellow?. - 6. 4 Machines for Colour Discrimination. - 6. 5 Ways of Thinking about Colour. - 6. 6 Programmable Colour Filter (PCF). - 6. 7 Colour Recognition in Prolog+ Programs. - 6. 8 Discussion and Conclusions. - 7 Applications of Intelligent Vision. - 7. 1 Recognition of Printed Patterns. - 7. 2 Manipulation of Planar Objects. - 7. 3 Packing and Depletion. - Blob Packing. - Polygon Packing. - Predicates. -7. 4 Handedness of Mirror-Image Components. - Relating Chirality and Handedness. - Formal Definition. - Generating Concavity Trees. - Sample Concavity Trees. - Canonical Form of Concavity Trees. - Program to find Chirality. - Instability. - 7. 5 Telling the Time. - 7. 6 Food and Agricultural Products. - 8 Concluding Remarks. - References. - A Proverbs Opinions and Folklore. - B Factors to be Considered when Designing a Vision System. - C General Reference Material. - D PIP Software Implementation of Prolog+. - E Prolog+ and PIP Commands. - Glossary of Terms. - Index of Predicates Operators and Grammar Rules. Language: English