Educational experiments in machine vision

We present a set of four educational experiments in machine vision. These were designed to run on low-cost hardware which is yet powerfnl enough to serve in genuine industrial applications of machine vision. The experiments introduce students to thresholding, connected component analysis, Hough transforms, stereo vision, and color coordinate systems. The programming involved is close enough to the hardware to expose students to real-time processing techniques and prepares them to tackle the type of problems they will face in field applications of machine vision.