Title
Surface Defect Detection Of 3d Objects Using Robot Vision
Abstract
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to develop a robot vision system for surface defect detection of 3D objects. It aims at the ill-defined qualitative items such as stains and scratches.Design/methodology/approach - A robot vision system for surface defect detection may counter: high surface reflection at some viewing angles; and no reference markers in any sensed images for matching. A filtering process is used to separate the illumination and reflection components of an image. An automatic marker-selection process and a template-matching method are then proposed for image registration and anomaly detection in reflection-free images.Findings - Tests were performed on a variety of hand-held electronic devices such as cellular phones. Experimental results show that the proposed system can reliably avoid reflection surfaces and effectively identify small local defects on the surfaces in different viewing angles.Practical implications - The results have practical implications for industrial objects with arbitrary surfaces.Originality/value - Traditional visual inspection systems mainly work for two-dimensional planar surfaces such as printed circuit boards and wafers. The proposed system can find the viewing angles with minimum surface reflection and detect small local defects under image misalignment for three-dimensional objects.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1108/01439911111132076
INDUSTRIAL ROBOT-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH AND APPLICATION
Keywords
Field
DocType
Robotics, Electronic equipment and components, Surface defects, Sensors
Computer vision,Object detection,Anomaly detection,Filter (signal processing),Image processing,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Robotics,Visual control,Image registration,Viewing angle
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
38
4
0143-991X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
14
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ya-Hui Tsai1282.85
Du-Ming Tsai297068.17
Wei-Chen Li3544.03
Wei-Yao Chiu4416.23
Ming-Chin Lin5545.85