Image Acquisition and Processing with LabVIEW fills a hole in the LabVIEW technical publication range. It is intended for competent LabVIEW programmers, as a general training manual for those new to National Instruments (NI) Vision application development and a reference for more-experienced vision programmers. It is assumed that readers have attained programming knowledge comparable to that taught in the NI LabVIEW Basics II course (see http://www.ni.com/training for a detailed course outline). The book covers introductions and theory of general image acquisition and processing topics, while providing more in-depth discussions and examples of speciÞc NI Vision tools.

This book is a comprehensive IMAQ and Vision resource combining reference material, theory on image processing techniques, information on how LabVIEW and the NI Vision toolkit handle each technique, examples of each of their uses and realworld case studies, all in one book.

This is not a laboratory-style book, and hence does not contain exercises for the reader to complete. Instead, the several coding examples, as referenced in the text, are included on an accompanying CD-ROM in the back of the book.

The information contained in this book refers generally to the National Instruments Vision Toolkit version 6.1 (Figure 1). Several of the techniques explained herein may be perfectly functional using previous or future versions of the Vision Toolkit

A glossary has also been compiled to deÞne subject-related words and acronyms.