TUBE NEWS TN November 2019 | Page 10

» or security personnel. Integration of ML models into these legacy systems allows evaluation against pre-defined scenarios. “Is that human wearing the required PPE gear?” may be the typical application. Technology that achieve this functionality is already well established, but cost effective integration into existing systems that have grown organically and consists of a wide variety of multi generational hardware components remains challenging. -Standardization and integration: as with everything else, scalable vision deployments will benefit from, and also contribute to standardization. From software protocols to hardware interfaces, vision integration into modern PLC’s and industrial robots are already on the rise in the form of augmented or assisted production processes. Various levels and systems are in use today, and out of the current experimental environment standards and norms will emerge. 10 TUBE NEWS November 2019 Using neural networks in the interpretation of digital images rapidly increases the levels of functionality, but is significantly more complex than most legacy systems that rely on comparison with a predefined data set, and as such, training of the neural nets to achieve the required level of accuracy is both challenging and critical for success. The vast improvements in quality and accuracy seen when applying neural networks to vision systems in the manufacturing and industrial sectors have rendered classic computer vision techniques almost obsolete. In particular, the use of convolutional neural networks - neural networks more apt for processing and classifying images - has made classifying products, detecting the presence or absence of specific items in complicated contexts, and the detection of visible defects in products far more precise and reliable than was possible before. . www.dataprophet.com