Book Review: Handbook of Machine Vision, edited by Alexander Hornberg, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2006. ISBN: 978-3-527-40584-8. 798 pages. $190. (Available from John Wiley & Sons, www.wiley.com.) ...

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If you design or specify machine-vision systems, you’ll like Handbook of Machine Vision, a book edited by Alexander Hornberg, a professor of physics and photonics at the University of Applied Sciences ...