[Kevin Sevcik]

There's an Image Acquisition and Machine Vision Module for Labview. It is, of course, excitingly expensive at retail prices. It supports blob detection and pattern recognition and etc, but if you want to do anything past that you'll need to start working out your own algorithms. Honestly, if you're really serious about this, I'd use OpenCV, if only for developing your algorithms. Labview is good for many things, but I've never much liked it for running in a desktop OS for anything where you care about processing speed and stability.