This paper proposes a coverage path planning (CPP) method for inspection of 3D natural structures on the ocean floor charted as 2.5D bathymetric maps. This task is integral to many marine robotics applications, such a...
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(纸本)9781467356411;9781467356435
This paper proposes a coverage path planning (CPP) method for inspection of 3D natural structures on the ocean floor charted as 2.5D bathymetric maps. This task is integral to many marine robotics applications, such as microbathymetry mapping and image photo-mosaicing. We consider an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with hovering capabilities imaging the ocean floor with an orientable sensor, such as a camera or a sonar. While standard lawnmower-type surveys at constant altitude are well-suited for covering effectively planar areas, two major problems arise when tracing such paths over high-relief terrain. First, the sudden depth changes required by such paths imply very costly motions, as moving in the vertical axis is expensive for most AUVs. Second, some time is required to adjust the vehicle depth after a sudden change in the relief, resulting in a varying distance from the target surface which deteriorates the overall quality of the collected imaging data. The method proposed in this paper accounts for these facts and generates different coverage patterns according to terrain's relief, resulting in a well-suited coverage path for imaging tasks. The proposed CPP method is fast and easy to implement, and provides a valuable tool for planning coverage paths in marine environments. We tested the proposed method on a real-world bathymetric dataset of a lava tongue obtained during recent sea trials in the Santorini caldera in Greece and compares favorably to a standard lawnmower-type survey path.
In the present industrial application space, conventional inspectiontechniques using manual intervention are getting replaced by automated inspection using image sensors. image sensors have empowered machines with vi...
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In the present industrial application space, conventional inspectiontechniques using manual intervention are getting replaced by automated inspection using image sensors. image sensors have empowered machines with vi...
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In the present industrial application space, conventional inspectiontechniques using manual intervention are getting replaced by automated inspection using image sensors. image sensors have empowered machines with vision and that has led to increased levels of process automation which used to be manually exhaustive. This paper mainly focuses on the comparative study of Machine Vision hardware aspect specifically on cameras and lighting- the technologies in use and their application across different industry verticals.
Machine vision systems provide quality control and real-time feedback for industrial processes, overcoming physical limitations and subjective judgment of humans. In this paper, the imageprocessingtechniques for dev...
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(纸本)9781424422869
Machine vision systems provide quality control and real-time feedback for industrial processes, overcoming physical limitations and subjective judgment of humans. In this paper, the imageprocessingtechniques for developing low-cost machine vision system for pharmaceutical capsule inspection is explored. By developing imageprocessingtechniques, and using PCs, custom USB 2.0 cameras with minimal hardware, a low-cost flexible system is developed. This paper discusses the two-part gelatin capsule inspection system that belongs to USB camera 2.0 and associated hardware, the PCs to acquire the image data of the capsule, imageprocessingtechniques using border tracing and approximating the capsule to a circle to perform inspection and a custom system controller to pass the accepted and rejected capsules to the appropriate bin.
Machine vision has become an important visual inspection technology for many automationapplications. Using machine vision for automation can reduce operating costs and increase efficiency and accuracy. This paper pre...
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(纸本)9781424420223
Machine vision has become an important visual inspection technology for many automationapplications. Using machine vision for automation can reduce operating costs and increase efficiency and accuracy. This paper presents an image matching technique designed specifically for improving the library inventory (shelf-reading) process. In contrast with more complex color image matching techniques, the proposed method quantizes color images of book spines into a limited number of color indices and performs image matching on the quantized color index images. This approach simplifies and speeds up the processing and improves the overall inventory process. The potential performance of this robust color quantization and image matching technique is demonstrated by the results of preliminary experiments.
Machine vision systems provide quality control and real-time feedback for industrial processes, overcoming physical limitations and subjective judgment of humans. In this paper, the imageprocessingtechniques for dev...
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Machine vision systems provide quality control and real-time feedback for industrial processes, overcoming physical limitations and subjective judgment of humans. In this paper, the imageprocessingtechniques for developing low-cost machine vision system for pharmaceutical capsule inspection is explored. By developing imageprocessingtechniques, and using PCs, custom USB 2.0 cameras with minimal hardware, a low-cost flexible system is developed. This paper discusses the two-part gelatin capsule inspection system that belongs to USB camera 2.0 and associated hardware, the PCs to acquire the image data of the capsule, imageprocessingtechniques using border tracing and approximating the capsule to a circle to perform inspection and a custom system controller to pass the accepted and rejected capsules to the appropriate bin.
Interest in digital imageprocessing methods stems from two principal areas: improvement of pictorial information for human interpretation and processing of image data for storage, transmission, and representation for...
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Interest in digital imageprocessing methods stems from two principal areas: improvement of pictorial information for human interpretation and processing of image data for storage, transmission, and representation for autonomous machine perception. Today, there is no area of technical endeavor that is not impacted in same way by digital imageprocessing. A major area of imaging is in automated visual inspection of manufactured goods. A typical imageprocessing task with products like this is to inspect them for missing or wrong parts. Detecting some anomalies is a major theme of industrial inspection that includes a large area of products. The proposed paper presents an application for detection of broken aspirin tablets using imageprocessingtechniques. The application was implemented in an object oriented imageprocessing software. The processing scheme can be adapted for other practical applications from other domains.
Machine vision has become an important visual inspection technology for many automationapplications. Using machine vision for automation can reduce operating costs and increase efficiency and accuracy. This paper pre...
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Machine vision has become an important visual inspection technology for many automationapplications. Using machine vision for automation can reduce operating costs and increase efficiency and accuracy. This paper presents an image matching technique designed specifically for improving the library inventory (shelf-reading) process. In contrast with more complex color image matching techniques, the proposed method quantizes color images of book spines into a limited number of color indices and performs image matching on the quantized color index images. This approach simplifies and speeds up the processing and improves the overall inventory process. The potential performance of this robust color quantization and image matching technique is demonstrated by the results of preliminary experiments.
Vegetables and fruits are the most important export agricultural products of Thailand. In order to obtain more value-added products, a product quality control is essentially required. Many studies show that quality of...
Vegetables and fruits are the most important export agricultural products of Thailand. In order to obtain more value-added products, a product quality control is essentially required. Many studies show that quality of agricultural products may be reduced from many causes. One of the most important factors of such quality is plant diseases. Consequently, minimizing plant diseases allows substantially improving quality of the products. This work presents automatic plant disease diagnosis using multiple artificial intelligent techniques. The system can diagnose plant leaf disease without maintaining any expertise once the system is trained. Mainly, the grape leaf disease is focused in this work. The proposed system consists of three main parts: (i) grape leaf color segmentation, (ii) grape leaf disease segmentation, and (iii) analysis & classification of diseases. The grape leaf color segmentation is pre-processing module which segments out any irrelevant background information. A self-organizing feature map together with a back-propagation neural network is deployed to recognize colors of grape leaf. This information is used to segment grape leaf pixels within the image. Then the grape leaf disease segmentation is performed using modified self-organizing feature map with genetic algorithms for optimization and support vector machines for classification. Finally, the resulting segmented image is filtered by Gabor wavelet which allows the system to analyze leaf disease color features more efficient. The support vector machines are then again applied to classify types of grape leaf diseases. The system can be able to categorize the image of grape leaf into three classes: scab disease, rust disease and no disease. The proposed system shows desirable results which can be further developed for any agricultural product analysis/inspection system.
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