Visually inspecting specular surfaces: A generalized image capture and image description approach.

Image capturing and image content description can be regarded as the two major steps of a computer vision process. This paper focuses on both within the field of specular surface inspection, by generalizing a previously defined stripebased inspection method to free-form surfaces on the basis of a specific stripe illumination technique and by outlining a general feature-based stripe image characterization approach by means of new theoretical concepts. One major purpose of this paper is to propose a general stripe image interpretation approach on the basis of a three-step procedure: 1) comparison of different image content description techniques, 2) fusion of the most appropriate ones, and 3) selection of the optimal features.

Inspection of complex surfaces by means of structured light patterns.

This paper addresses the generalization of a surface inspection methodology developed within an industrial context for the characterization of specular cylindrical surfaces. The principle relies on the interpretation of a stripe pattern, obtained after projecting a structured light onto the surface to be inspected. The main objective of this paper is to apply this technique to a broader range of surface geometries and types, i.