OpenG imaging and machine vision tools?
In my job I develop in-house machine vision and image processing solutions for my company.
In industrial machine vision and inspection, there are several main players (Cognex, Keyence, Matrox, Halcon, etc.) LabVIEW and IMAQ are not totally out of the picture but are far from common for manufacturing applications.
I try to use LabVIEW whenever I can because I find it's great for quickly prototyping proof-of-concept systems. I use the Vision Acquisition and Vision Development Module toolk
It's an interesting idea but also one which requires a lot of work to get to a point that is even remotely useful. IMAQ Vision isn't just a small collection of C functions gathered together but a pretty involved function library and at the same time lots of supporting glue to put those functions in an easy to use way into LabVIEW without sacrificing performance in a big way.
OpenCV would probably be the library of choice for such a project. I've been looking into it to make some DLL interfac