Under the current era of high-end equipment manufacturing as the core of the Zhisheng Industry 4.0 era, with the development of the “Made in China 2025†strategy, the industrial intelligent robot industry market is showing a growing momentum, including the role of machine vision as the “eye-catcher†role of industrial robots. Contributions have been made.
Machine vision is an important branch of AI
"AI first, application is king" has increasingly become the consensus of the AI ​​market. Among them, machine vision as an important branch of AI, due to coincide with the "Industry 4.0" and "Made in China 2025" and other major strategies and major trends, it has been booming. The so-called machine vision, mainly uses the computer to imitate the human visual function, extracts, processes and comprehends the image information of the objective thing, finally uses in the actual examination, the measurement and the control. Machine vision can be said to be the window of the soul of the industrial automation system. From object/bar code identification, product inspection, measurement of appearance dimensions to positioning of mechanical arm/transmission equipment, machine vision technology can be used as a stage.
As we all know, smart manufacturing is the main direction for achieving “Industry 4.0†and “Made in China 2025â€. In smart manufacturing, machine vision is the most important part. Machine vision is already a giant in the development of domestic AI industry, among which there is a large number of “star†companies such as Shang Tang Technology, Contempt Technology, Yun Cong Technology, Code Long Technology, Yi Tu Technology, and Geling Deep Hitomi. Most of these companies have completed B/C/round financing, and have expanded their territory in such areas as face recognition, security monitoring, and intelligent manufacturing.
The status of machine vision development
In 2011, China's machine vision market began to start and the industry entered a period of rapid development. According to data released by the Industry Research Institute of Prospective Industries, the market size of China's machine vision industry was about 1.08 billion yuan in 2011; it reached 3.54 billion yuan in 2013, an increase of 55.94% year-on-year; by 2016 The market size is close to 7 billion yuan, an increase of 13.40% year-on-year, accounting for approximately 15% of the global market.
Machine vision companies can generally be divided into layer developers, secondary developers, and product agents. Domestic machine vision companies are mainly foreign machine vision product agents and system secondary development vendors. At present, there are more than 100 foreign brands entering China's machine vision market, and there are more than 200 domestic enterprises responsible for sales agents and more than 50 professional system integrators. The bottom layer of real professional machine vision manufacturers in our country is very rare, and there is a shortage of local machine vision system manufacturers and machine vision system component manufacturers.
Machine vision and security collisions break through the limitations of intelligent development
Network, high-definition, and intelligentization have become the main direction of security. At present, video surveillance products on the market have basically achieved the standards of network and high-definition, so the next round of market changes will achieve breakthroughs in the “smartâ€. How to effectively "intelligentize" data storage, analysis, and application of data, the field of machine vision will become an important handle for security companies to further breakthrough in intelligent development.
Target recognition, target tracking, binocular technology, and multi-camera tracking and linkage technology application in machine vision have brought changes to the security industry. If the camera is regarded as the human eye, and the intelligent video analysis system can be understood as the human brain, the intelligent video analysis technology uses the powerful computing function of the processor to perform high-speed analysis on the massive data in the video screen to obtain the information that people need. When machine vision and image processing technologies were added, the original limitations were broken and a real-time video surveillance system was designed. While implementing video surveillance, the system adds video change detection and automatic recording functions by using machine vision technology. The system can automatically recognize scene changes, detect moving targets and lock them, and issue warnings and activate storage devices. This can not only save a lot of storage space, improve monitoring storage efficiency, reduce unnecessary playback, and data more targeted.
Machine vision technology is not always going smoothly
“Although some achievements have been made in machine vision product research and development in China, there is still a large gap between advanced foreign machine vision technologies and equipment.†Han Jiuqiang pointed out that currently there are mainly low technology levels in machine vision product R&D. Applications are narrow, the development and application phases of special vision systems are basically in hardware and software customization, high development costs, low efficiency, etc.; in the field of machine vision algorithm research, classic digital image processing algorithms and general software programming development and configuration are still used. The integrated development capability is weak; in terms of products, machine vision technology and system products with independent intellectual property rights are less, which is not conducive to mass production and promotion. These deficiencies and problems not only limit the scope of application of machine vision, but also make existing technology applications complicated and difficult.
Conclusion
With the development of machine vision technology, China’s emphasis on the machine vision industry and the unique advantages of security in machine vision technology will play an important role in advancing the future of machine vision technology.
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