1. An imaging tape cartridge picker system for use in aligning a tape cartridge picker with cartridges in cells of a tape cartridge magazine, comprising: a picker assembly; illumination sources disposed at the front of the picker assembly for illuminating an object; an imager disposed on the front of the picker assembly for gathering image data of the object; and a processor, coupled to the imager and illumination sources, for thresholding the image data obtained from the imager and for controlling the illumination sources; wherein the processor uses bounding boxes to identify the location of a desired physical feature in the thresholded image.