Applications of machine vision
Machine vision has many, many applications. The examples cited here represent just a tiny fraction of the work being carried out by BMVA members. (Note that many of the examples are very old; we are in the process of updating them.)
You might also be interested in reading about vision techniques.
Some history
Technology moves quickly in the computer vision domain. You might like to see what was considered state-of-the-art in the mid-1990s, when the following were produced.