Applications of vision systems for control and monitoring are becoming more widespread. However, these are still specific problems in the glass industry, especially transparency of glass (many times colourless) that requires the use of special illuminations, adapters for lenses, filters, software filters, analyses of images, etc. An important problem is the choice of an optimal analysis for obtained images that should correspond with the character of obtained data. Our research is developing the use of cameras (an area scan cameras, a line scan cameras, and an intelligent cameras) for quality monitoring of glass production with connection to a PC or compact visions systems, software solutions with appropriate image analysis (using standard and new algorithms) and to solve of real problems for industry applications.
