UK Industrial Vision Association

The objective of the UK Industrial Vision Association is to promote the use of vision technology by manufacturing industry in the UK. One of the most important ways in which this is done is to provide information about all the members, on a factual and uniform basis, to all enquirers. However, because the Word Wide Web knows no national boundaries, the Association has become a source of information to potential users of automated vision technology, regardless of their location. Equally, the downloadable resources available on this site are free to any visitor who registers. Although machine vision implies automatic interpretation of images, the Association also provides information on other forms of electronic imaging such as infra red, x-ray and high speed video, not always subject to automatic analysis.

Machine vision has been defined as the use of devices for optical, non-contact sensing to automatically receive and interpret an image of a real scene in order to obtain information and/or control machines or processes. To learn more about Industrial Vision please see our What is Vision section.