The book you hold in your hands is part of National Instruments and Prentice Hall PTR's Virtual Instrumentation series, covering the toolbox and function library IMAQ™ Vision, the IMAQ Vision Builder, and the NI Vision Builder for Automated Inspection, which are used for image processing, image analysis, and machine vision. It is intended for engineers and professionals, as well as for students, who want to take their first steps in the fields of image processing. Today, many engineers have a lot of experience with LabVIEW™, mostly with data acquisition (DAQ); so they can now also use this tool for their image processing or machine vision tasks
