Automated determination of regions of interest for 3D-vision-based quality control of free-form surfaces

In this paper, we describe a segmentation and interpretation method for the automated delineation of regions of interest, belonging to an object, out of gray level images, in view of the quantitative 3D reconstruction of an imaged object. The proposed approach is part of a three dimensional vision based on-line inspection system. Results on images of manufactured parts acquired under realistic acquisition conditions illustrate the approach.