[Joe Ross]

We use NI Vision on a LabVIEW dashboard, communicating to a java program using Network Tables. We've been much more successful with this approach then anything else we've tried (and we've been playing with vision since 2005).

I think much of the success is attributable to the great examples that NI puts together for FIRST, rather then something inherent in the library. In addition, doing vision processing on the dashboard is much easier then trying to do it on the cRIO or on a robot-based co-processor.