title: Automated visual inspection: a survey.
abstract: This paper surveys publications, reports, and articles dealing with automated visual inspection for industry. The references are organized according to their contents: overview and discussions, rationales, components and design considerations, commercially available systems, applications. A number of applications and their inspection methodologies are discussed in detail: the inspection of printed circuit boards, photomasks, integrated circuit chips. Other inspection applications are listed as a bibliography. A list of selectively annotated references in commercially available visual inspection tools is also included.
authors.affiliation: MEMBER, IEEE, Department ot Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706.
authors.forename: R T
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Chin
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Harlow