3D builds on the proven capabilities of 2D by adding a secondary layer of data describing shape, which is essential to designing highly robust measurement systems.

In the world of automated industrial quality control and inline inspection, both 2D and 3D technology have important roles to play. In this three part blog series we will look at the strengths and limitations of each, and how combining the two creates a more complete inspection system.

Flaw detection is one of the most fundamental machine vision tasks.

To computers, all images are simply two dimensional arrays of numbers. To these arrays, machine vision systems apply specialized functions that produce numerical measurements as intermediate or final results.