As we move further into the era of Industry 4.0 and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), greater emphasis is certain to be placed on automation. With machine vision technology becoming ever more sophisticated, there is huge potential to improve manufacturers’ quality levels while also accelerating throughput rates. The scope of this technology is broadening all the time too. New applications are destined to play a bigger part in our everyday lives, taking care of object detection/recognition in our cars’ ADAS systems, enabling facial-based security mechanisms to be integrated into portable electronics, and countless other key tasks.