Title
A sequential machine vision procedure for assessing paper impurities
Abstract
We present a sequential, two-step procedure based on machine vision for detecting and characterizing impurities in paper. The method is based on a preliminary classification step to differentiate defective paper patches (i.e., with impurities) from non-defective ones (i.e., with no impurities), followed by a thresholding step to separate the impurities from the background. This approach permits to avoid the artifacts which occur when thresholding is applied to paper samples that contain no impurities. We discuss and compare different solutions and methods to implement the procedure and experimentally validate it on a datasets of 11 paper classes. The results show that a marked increase in detection accuracy can be obtained with the two-step procedure in comparison with thresholding alone.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.compind.2013.12.001
Computers in Industry
Keywords
DocType
Volume
paper impurity,marked increase,thresholding step,two-step procedure,different solution,detection accuracy,preliminary classification step,paper sample,machine vision,defective paper patch,paper class,sequential machine vision procedure
Journal
65
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0166-3615
11
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.61
22
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francesco Bianconi131118.11
Luca Ceccarelli2110.61
Antonio Fernández380149.47
Stefano A. Saetta4311.79