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A New Approach to Identify Big Rocks with Applications to the Mining Industry

✍ Scribed by Enrique Cabello; M.Araceli Sánchez; Javier Delgado

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2002
Tongue
English
Weight
569 KB
Volume
8
Category
Article
ISSN
1077-2014

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✦ Synopsis

etection of big rocks is an important, even critical, problem in the mining industry due to the risk of machine blockage causing high costs. This paper presents a computer-visionbased method to detect big rocks in a real mining industry. Our system, based on a mixture of image processing techniques and neural networks, works as follows: once the image is taken, a pre-processing step is performed, filtering the image and extracting a set of candidate rocks. Then a neural network processes the candidate rocks to ensure correct detection. A tracking algorithm is then applied to avoid false detection due to rock grouping. Using geometrical information, it is possible to estimate the real dimensions of the rocks. Our computer vision system satisfies time constraints imposed by the industry to work in real time and is currently operating. The algorithm presented is independent of the rock's shape. Results obtained during nine months of unsupervized work are provided, showing that our system is able to work under different light conditions and is robust enough to face real work conditions.

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