Machine vision will set a new storm in the field of intelligence

With the outbreak of artificial intelligence, machine vision, one of the representative technologies, is expected to usher in greater development and set off a new storm in unmanned stores, autonomous driving, robotics and other fields.

       Today's machine vision technology has penetrated into our daily lives, from the beauty app face recognition function and face album classification in mobile phones to Alipay facial recognition authentication, locker face recognition, and industrial robots to accurately grasp objects Taking, obstacle avoidance of logistics robots, etc. all use computer vision technology.

       Machine vision is a branch of artificial intelligence that is developing rapidly. Simply put, machine vision is to use machines instead of human eyes to make measurements and judgments. The machine vision system converts the captured object into an image signal through a machine vision product (that is, an image capturing device), and transmits it to a dedicated image processing system to obtain the morphological information of the captured object. Into digital signals.

       Machine vision technology is a combination of software and hardware. The main components include camera, camera, image sensor, vision processing and communication equipment. A complete system can capture images of arbitrary objects and analyze them based on different parameters of quality and safety.

       As the artificial intelligence industry heats up, the machine vision industry is expected to enter a new stage of development, and the market scale will accelerate. According to the data from the "Forecast and Investment Analysis Report of China's Machine Vision Industry" by the Institute of Foresight Industry, the global machine vision industry has developed rapidly in recent years. In 2015, the global machine vision system and component market size reached US $ 4.2 billion. The scale will exceed $ 5 billion.

       In the automated production process, machine vision systems are widely used in fields such as condition monitoring, finished product inspection, and quality control. At present, two-thirds of the mid-range market for machine vision products is occupied by electronics manufacturing, automobile manufacturing, and municipal transportation industries. The remaining market share includes the needs of food, packaging machinery, printing and other industries, and the demand for machine vision products in these industries is still growing significantly. .

       From the perspective of industrial applications, the electronics manufacturing industry is still the main factor driving demand. However, from the perspective of future development, the level of automation in the food and packaging machinery industries will further increase, and the demand for machine vision products is worth looking forward to.

       With the rapid disappearance of China's demographic dividend, many companies will further face difficulties such as increased labor costs, low production efficiency, shrinking profit margins, slow changes in innovative thinking, and uncertain prospects. The industry urgently needs to find new growth engines.

       Although there are three major driving factors for the development of the machine vision industry, one is the wide application demand space, the other is the cost saving promotion, and the third is the technology drive.

       However, at present, global users still lack matching knowledge of the rapid development of visual technology, and the development of the industry is bound to face challenges. At present, the main obstacles to the application of machine vision products in the Chinese market are: budget constraints, difficult to use, project implementation resource constraints, operator acceptance, vision technology understanding, and insufficient priority compared to other automation projects.

       In fact, machine vision technology is very reliable in solving complex industrial tasks. Moreover, compared with common vision systems used in various institutions or educational establishments, industrial machine vision systems are more robust, and more stable and accurate. The media expect that these factors will make the technology more adaptable in the industrial sector. In addition, due to the use of machine vision systems in the industrial field, more and more other technologies are also seeking to integrate with them, thereby strengthening the booming trend of the machine vision technology market.

       The development of machine vision technology can be described as mixed. On the one hand, it is a powerful three driving force, and on the other hand, it is a "stumbling block" that development must face. For companies already in this industry, opportunities and challenges coexist. Whether or not to base themselves in this field, companies still have to work hard.