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Locating and identifying sound knots and dead knots on sugi by the rule-based color vision system
Journal of Wood Science volume 50, pages 115–122 (2004)
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Knowledge of the occurrence of sound and dead knots on the surface of sugi is important for the classification and application of the material. This study examined a color vision system for detecting sound and dead knots on sugi. The system can be conceptually divided into three components: a CCD-camera scanning system, an image-segmenting module, and a rule-based defect identifying module. The results showed that the potential defect regions could be located by Otsu’s threshold algorithm in conjunction with t-test analysis. The accuracies of locating sound knots and dead knots were 92.6% and 97.1%, respectively. The rule-based approach was used to identify sound and dead knots and the identifying accuracies for sound knots and dead knots were 92.0% and 94.1%, respectively. The overall detection accuracy of the system was 87.6%. The results indicated that the rule-based color vision system is an efficient means of detecting sound knots and dead knots on sugi.
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Hu, C., Tanaka, C. & Ohtani, T. Locating and identifying sound knots and dead knots on sugi by the rule-based color vision system. J Wood Sci 50, 115–122 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10086-003-0549-3
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10086-003-0549-3