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Automated tone grading of granite
Año:2017
Áreas de investigación
  • Ingeniería civil y arquitectura,
  • Viviendas,
  • Construccion,
  • Arquitectura,
  • Ingeniería de construcción,
  • Muros y cerramientos
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Descripción
The production of a natural stone processing plant is subject to the intrinsic variability of the stone blocks that constitute its raw material, which may cause problems of lack of uniformity in the visual appearance of the produced material that often triggers complaints from customers. The best way to tackle this problem is to classify the product according to its visual features, which is traditionally done by hand: an operator observes each and every piece that comes out of the production line and assigns it to the closest match among a number of predefined classes, taking into account visual features of the material such as colour, texture, grain, veins, etc. However, this manual procedure presents significant consistency problems, due to the inherent subjectivity of the classification performed by each operator, and the errors caused by their progressive fatigue. Attempts to employ automated sorting systems like the ones used in the ceramic tile industry have not been successful, as natural stone presents much higher variability than ceramic tiles. Therefore, it has been necessary to develop classification systems specifically designed for the treatment of the visual parameters that distinguish the different types of natural stone. This paper describes the details of a computer vision system developed by AITEMIN for the automatic classification of granite pieces according to their tone, which provides an integral solution to tone grading problems in the granite processing and marketing industry. The system has been designed to be easily trained by the end user, through the learning of the samples established as tone patterns by the user. Keywords: computer vision, granite, natural stone, tone grading.
Internacional
Si
JCR del ISI
No
Título de la revista
Boletín Geológico y Minero
ISSN
0366-0176
Factor de impacto JCR
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DOI
10.21701/bolgeomin.128.2.001
Número de revista
128 (2)
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271
Hasta la página
286
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  • Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Recursos Minerales