The Institute's activity in the field of computer vision was initiated by the Termowet measurement system - an award-winning device for automatic measurements of the surface properties of metals and their alloys, carried out at the interface of the liquid and solid phases. The system performs measurements at temperatures up to 1700° C. Using dedicated image processing and analysis algorithms developed at the Institute, the system determines the exact values of contact angles and surface tension, based on images of drops of liquid metals or other tested materials.
Since then, other computer-aided diagnostic tools have been developed for materials science, biology, food processing and the medical industry, based mainly on optical coherence tomography/X-ray tomography and MRI images.