Simulation is an important aspect to consider when designing an inspection system based upon machine vision. The tire inspection system uses thermal cameras to inspect the surface of a tire. The simulation of a tire inspection system can yield an optimal set of parameters for a thermal camera, or given a specific thermal camera provide information on the optimal placement of the camera. Since t...

The problem of container inspection at ports-of-entry is formulated in several different ways as an optimization problem. Data generated from different analytical methods, x-ray detectors, gamma-ray detectors and other sensors used for the detection of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, explosive, and other illicit agents are often relied upon to make critical decisions with regard to...

Today’s software quality assurance techniques are often applied in isolation. Consequently, synergies resulting from systematically integrating different quality assurance activities are often not exploited. Such combinations promise benefits, such as a reduction in quality assurance effort or higher defect detection rates. The integration of inspection and testing, for instance, can be used to...

The US Department of Agriculture uses many methods to screen incoming passenger baggage for agricultural quarantined materials (e.g. fresh fruits and meat). X-ray inspection is relied upon because it is a fast and non-invasive inspection method. This paper investigates a new image feature based approach to training for X-ray inspection that instructs subjects to search for particular patterns a...

as possible, while the West has pressed for both a greater degree of inspection and its institution as early as possible in each stage of the complex arms reduction process. Despite some modest progress on principles, no concrete agreement on specifics has yet been negotiated; even the limited test ban treaty relies solely upon national inspection procedures, carried on outside one another’s bo...