Glass Bottle Inspector Based on Machine Vision

This text studies glass bottle intelligent inspector based machine vision instead of manual inspection. The system structure is illustrated in detail in this paper. The text presents the method based on watershed transform methods to segment the possible defective regions and extract features of bottle wall by rules. Then wavelet transform are used to exact features of bottle finish from images. After extracting features, the fuzzy support vector machine ensemble is putted forward as classifier. For ensuring that the fuzzy support vector machines have good classification ability, the GA based ensemble method is used to combining the several fuzzy support vector machines. The experiments demonstrate that using this inspector to inspect glass bottles, the accuracy rate may reach above 97.5%.

Authors:

• Huanjun Liu
• Yaonan Wang
• Feng Duan

Keywords:

• Intelligent Inspection
• Support Vector Machines
• Ensemble Methods
• watershed transform
• Wavelet Transform

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