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Machine vision has a few key differentiators relative to other technologies. First, it's automated and noncontact. It always provides both automated acquisition and analysis. Other technologies, in contrast, involve only acquisition or only analysis. Computer vision, for example, provides only analysis, while imaging involves only acquisition. Machine vision, which provides both, is virtually always a one-to-one image-to-process relationship. It's not typically a streaming technology, such as applied in autonomous driving, where the application involves streaming images and doing real-time processing.
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