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Beyond Pass/Fail: The Shift from Defect Detection to Visual Reasoning

For years, a typical machine vision application was relatively static: position a camera, capture an image, analyze it and make a pass/fail decision.

Beyond Pass/Fail: The Shift from Defect Detection to Visual Reasoning

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For years, a typical machine vision application was relatively static: position a camera, capture an image, analyze it and make a pass/fail decision.

Visual inspection is changing. For years, a typical machine vision application was relatively static: position a camera, capture an image, analyze it and make a pass/fail decision.

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For years, a typical machine vision application was relatively static: position a camera, capture an image, analyze it and make a pass/fail decision.

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