Objective: To assess the influence of practitioners’ expertise in code inspection of software components. Method: Subjects expertise was determined based on their independently assessed academic record. Inspection outcome was represented by the diversity of defects found at two levels of abstraction. Results: Statistically significant correlations among expertise and inspection outcomes were fo...

Objective: To assess the influence of practitioners’ expertise in code inspection of software components. Method: Subjects expertise was determined based on their independently assessed academic record. Inspection outcome was represented by the diversity of defects found at two levels of abstraction. Results: Statistically significant correlations among expertise and inspection outcomes were fo...

Quality is the hallmark of a competitive product. It is necessary to use inspection stations to check product quality and process performance. In this paper, we are concerned with the problem of location of inspection stations in a multistage manufacturing system. We present two stochastic search algorithms for solving this problem, one based on Simulated Annealing and the other on Genetic Algo...

In this paper, a fuzzy template matching method is proposed and the application on real time printing character quality inspection is illustrated. The method is robust in handling CCD images with poor quality due to illumination variation, dithering and motion blur, etc. Based on multi-level thresholding, fuzzy templates are constructed offline for all characters in certain font type and size. ...

In this paper we propose a prototype for image sequence acquisition of glass wine bottlenecks, whose main novelty is the use of an inner lighting source for better capturing of potential defects. A novel approach for automatic inspection of the bottlenecks based on tracking potential flaws along the acquired sequence is also presented. Our inspection system achieves performance rates of 87% tru...

Objective: To assess the influence of practitioners’ expertise in code inspection of software components. Method: Subjects expertise was determined based on their independently assessed academic record. Inspection outcome was represented by the diversity of defects found at two levels of abstraction. Results: Statistically significant correlations among expertise and inspection outcomes were fo...

The Guide to the Inspection of Pharmaceutical Quality Control Laboratories provided very limited guidance on the matter of inspection of microbiological laboratories. While that guide addresses many of the issues associated with the chemical aspect of laboratory analysis of pharmaceuticals, this document will serve as a guide to the inspection of the microbiology analytical process. As with any...

A distributed vision network is proposed to tackle industrial packaging inspection. The system consists of independent networked inspection stations able to address efficiently parallel inspection tasks such as product identification, character verification, tag inspection and content & packaging quality control at a high production speed. Existing and innovative inspection algorithms such as s...