HALCON related Handbook on Practical Image Processing presented in Japan

Tokyo, October, 2000    A dedicated conference on image processing and machine vision was held in Tokyo on the occasion of the presentation of the first edition of the Handbook on Practical Image Processing.
	The book is a joint work of the members of the FEST project. These members are well known people in the academic and industrial field of image processing and machine vision in Japan and Germany.
More than 150 attendees were listening to the presentations of the authors of the book. The talks covered all aspects of machine vision from the setup including illumination, camera and lens configuration and image acquisition up to image processing and object recognition.