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We ask a lot of our light source. Fortunately, with LED lights designed for machine vision illumination, many of these requirements are implicit in their designs. Still, there are six degrees of variability, or dimensions, in lighting design in addition to the criteria listed above:

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The person developing the vision system usually has a background in mechanical engineering, software engineering, controls, or some other technical discipline but not in optics. Selecting a light source from a vast range of types, sizes, and colors is challenging even for the most experienced machine vision practitioner.

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For the example, dark field light leaves the blue diffuse surface bright and the shiny gold sticker dark. Using blue illumination helps achieve even higher and more reliable contrast. The result is shown in Figure 14 using high-angle dark field illumination with blue light.

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While bright field lighting can overlap into dark field lighting, the reverse is not true. Dark field lighting never intrudes into bright field lighting space. It follows that dark field lighting can never be highly diffuse or some of its light would come from the front lighting area. The lower right corners of the two parts of the lighting cube are not realizable.

The optical properties affect how crisp the illumination "W" and "V" are. If the surface is specular for reflectance or transparent, the "W" or "V" has its classical shape shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2. However, as the surface tends toward diffuse reflectance or translucence, light rays are scattered and the arms of the "W" and "V" become less distinct. Figure 10 shows bright field for a diffuse flat surface. Note there is no effective dark field region for lighting.

What is important between the object (sticker) and the background (card) are only the differences. The two differences are the nature of reflectance – specular and diffuse – and the color – gold and blue. These are the properties circled on the form and available to create contrast.

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This article lists the requirements for good lighting.  Leading the list is good, dependable contrast.  It introduced the lighting cube representing the three components of light direction that can be used to create contrast.  It also introduced the scene analysis form to help people new to machine vision identify characteristics of the scene useful to create contrast.  The scene analysis form also serves to document the lighting design decisions.  The article also touched briefly on using color to create contrast.

The next time you are asked to "Put a camera here," you’ll be better prepared to advocate for space for the lighting and expedite the design of lighting to give high, reliable contrast.

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The three dimensions: front lighting/back lighting, bright field/dark field, and directed/diffuse are all descriptions of the direction the illumination takes to reach the scene. They can be considered three axes of a cube – the Lighting Cube shown in Figure 3.

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We can work through an example to see how to engineer machine vision lighting. The example is this blue card with a gold sticker on it shown in Figure 11. The scene analysis form is shown in Figure 12.

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The third sub-section under optical properties on the scene analysis form covers emission: either parts that emit light or parts that fluoresce.

Another example is the diffuse back light mapped onto the lighting cube as shown in Figure 7. This light is used exclusively for back lighting and is very diffuse. Yes, the diffuse back light can be used as a flood light for front lighting, but it is very inefficient when compared to lights designed as flood lights.

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So far, the discussion only covered light sources. Picking the correct light source depends on what scene characteristics are available to create contrast. To help with the identification, use a scene analysis form similar to the one shown in Figure 9.

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The first is for the ring light shown in Figure 6. The ring light can be used for front lighting as either bright field or dark field. Ring lights are designed with LEDs aimed for either of these uses. Ring lights can also be used for dark field back lighting but not for bright field lighting.

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While there is a continuum of variation between directed and diffuse illumination as well as between bright field and dark field illumination, the same is not true of front lighting and back lighting which are virtually distinct. This separation allows the cube to be reduced to two squares – one square for front lighting and one for backlighting as shown in Figure 4.

Notice the form is divided into two sections: Physical Properties and Optical Properties. The physical properties, or shape, determine how the illumination "W" or "V" is distorted. The classical "W" and V" assume flat surfaces.

Gold contrasts well with blue since yellow is actually white minus the blue wavelengths. (See the color wheel in Figure 13.)

I commonly hear this from people who design manufacturing equipment. They have the system designed mechanically and maybe even partially built. That’s the beginning of the lighting challenge. For most applications, the light source costs more than the industrial camera and its lens. (Smart cameras change the economics.) Also, the light source usually takes up more space than the camera and lens.

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Of all these criteria, good, consistent contrast is the most important. Having contrast vary unpredictably leads to more complex programming that may never be adequate. Do convolutional neural nets, or deep learning, reduce the need for repeatable contrast? Not really. Deep learning can adapt to changes in lighting if the training set is expanded and balanced. A balanced training set has roughly equal numbers of examples for every case. The effort expended to compile the expanded training set and the increased training time with more training images is costly. Then, with deep learning, there is never certainty in how the network performs with an image different in contrast than any in the training set. So, even with deep learning, high and consistent contrast is necessary for a highly reliable vision application.

It is usually easier to make specular surfaces dark than light. The dome light and flat dome light can make the surfaces bright in the image. Dark field lighting leaves specular surfaces dark. Diffuse surfaces scatter both bright field and dark field illumination, and can appear bright with either illumination method.

A good question to ask when creating contrast, "Is there a preference whether the object is light or dark against a contrasting background?" The example allows the use color or light direction or, preferably for best reliability, both.

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