Neural Network for Smart Adjustment of Industrial Camera - Study of Deployed Application

Abstract

Since machine vision is gaining more and more interest lately, it is necessary to deal with correct approaches to visual data acquisition in industry. As a particular part of this complex problematics, a technique for the industrial camera exposure time and image sensor gain tuning is presented in this contribution. In comparison to other approaches, a human expert photographer is used instead of explicitly defined cost function. His knowledge is transformed into an artificial expert system represented by a feedforward neural network. The expert system then provides the suitable exposure time and image sensor gain to gather sharp and balanced images.