Colour sorting of translucent samples

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14419/jacst.v4i2.5310

Published:

2015-10-29

Keywords:

Colour Sorting, Quality Control, Computer Vision, Translucent Samples, Transparency, Mechatronics

Abstract

Automated quality control and sorting based on computer vision techniques has been a long celebrated practice in industrial processes and production. Among the surface characteristics that guide the decision making in such systems, the colour holds a prominent position. This gets somehow complicated in cases dealing with translucent samples or samples with a significant amount of transparency and yet distinctive colour hues. The scope of this paper is to provide a method to tackle with such cases and presents a successful application to the world-renowned mastiha of Chios, a natural aromatic translucent resin extracted from the mastic tree that grows on the island of Chios, Greece.

Author Biography

George Pavlidis, ATHENA Research Center

Research Director

Head of the Multimedia Research Group

Institute for Language and Speech Processing

'Athena' Research Center

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