{"title":"Process control for the tea baking","authors":"Zhenyao Zheng, Jiyang Dong, Zhong Chen","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430707","url":null,"abstract":"The tea baking process is usually controlled by experience. It may leads to the instability of product quality. A new process control scheme for tea baking is proposed in this paper. Varied intelligent meters and concentrative controllers are used to construct the control system. A mathematic model is built to simplify the various factors, such as growth zone, breed tea-picking season, baking temperature, surrounding humidity, moisture of tea leaves, and consumer's desire. Furthermore, a novel interface software is designed to make the communication between controller and intelligent meters more agile, stable, and extensible. The proposed controlling scheme has been adopted by tea manufactories, and the result shows that the process control is effective and feasible, and the quality of tea is greatly improved.","PeriodicalId":421396,"journal":{"name":"2007 14th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132820308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A fruit recognition method for automatic harvesting","authors":"Lingbo Yang, J. Dickinson, Q.M.J. Wu, S. Lang","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430734","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a method to detect and recognize mature tomato fruit clusters on a complex-structured tomato plant containing clutter and occlusion in a tomato greenhouse for automatic harvesting purpose. A color stereo vision camera (PGR BumbleBee2) is applied as the vision sensor. The proposed method performs a 3D reconstruction with the data collected by the stereo camera to create a 3D environment for further processing. The color layer growing (CLG) method is introduced to segment the mature fruits from the leaves, stalks, background and noise. Target fruit clusters can then be located by depth segmentation. The experimental data was collected from a tomato greenhouse and the method is justified by the experimental results. Our experiments included severe self and stereo occlusion, which wasn't both included in the previous work.","PeriodicalId":421396,"journal":{"name":"2007 14th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126042554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An integrated ZigBee automation system: An energy saving solution","authors":"K. Tsang, W.C. Lee, K. L. Lam, H. Tung, K. Xuan","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430752","url":null,"abstract":"ZigBee is the latest wireless technology which provides three lowest solutions, low data rate, low power consumption and low cost. One of the ultimate goals of ZigBee is to provide a energy saving solution. Low power consumption and power management are important characteristics of ZigBee. To explore the concept of energy saving, an integrated ZigBee automation system (ZAS) for lighting automation and power management is investigated. In this paper, the details of system design for ZAS are described including the system overview, deployment as well as the power management algorithms.","PeriodicalId":421396,"journal":{"name":"2007 14th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"156 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131425003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel method for camera calibration using vanishing points","authors":"B. He, Y.F. Li","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430712","url":null,"abstract":"Camera calibration has been studied for many years and there are many methods available to find the parameters precisely. However, most existing methods require information of the known scene points in general three-dimensional positions for the calibration. A simple, geometrically intuitive method is proposed. The intrinsic parameters of the camera and the rotation matrix of the projection matrix are determined by using the vanishing points in each image. Our approach does not need any a priori information about the cameras being used. Computer simulations and real data experiments are carried out to validate our method.","PeriodicalId":421396,"journal":{"name":"2007 14th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116306311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification of overlapped ultrasonic NDE echoes with adaptive deconvolution","authors":"Tong Feng, Xu Xiao-mei, S. Tso, B. Luk","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430713","url":null,"abstract":"Ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation (NDE) application, narrow bandwidth of ultrasonic transducer will cause highly overlapped echoes, limiting the characterization performance of inspection. The least mean square (LMS) adaptive algorithm has gained wide applications in adaptive filtering, control and signal processing due to its effectiveness, low computational complexity and simplicity. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the LMS algorithm based adaptive deconvolution techniques in order to improving the time resolution of ultrasonic nondestructive detection. The theoretical basis as well as the implementation is provided. Experimental results on physical ultrasonic NDE data conforms the resolution improvement of proposed method.","PeriodicalId":421396,"journal":{"name":"2007 14th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125801142","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Application of digital image processing technique in cored wire manufacturing","authors":"Chen Lumin, Zhang Cun-ying, Liu Jie","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430741","url":null,"abstract":"Cored wire is easily distorted and leads to an irregular section profile because the contented material is relatively soft and cored wire is sometimes less filled. This will result in tangled wound wire and bad product quality. Our goal is to design an inexpensive automatic winding machine based on the image processing technique to meet the requirements of higher productivity. The technique such as image smoothing and gray enhancement are applied to improve the image quality, and image is segmented by dynamic threshold which is determined by OTSU avoiding the disturb from the illumination or the production equipment .The vertical edge of the gap is extracted through the difference algorithm. Width between wires is considered as the geometric feature in this algorithm, to recognize the gap and to drive the executive system to correct. This algorithm has experimented in the cored-wire manufacturing, and the validity and the practicability has been proved.","PeriodicalId":421396,"journal":{"name":"2007 14th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127757792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vision based gesture by structural features","authors":"Yufeng Chen, Fengxia Li, Minfu Lu","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430744","url":null,"abstract":".4 novel interactive gesture analysis method as well as its application in the game interface is proposed in this paper. Making full use of dynamic colour model and motion information, the statistic based detection method is adopted to retrieve basic features efficiently. Moreover the high level information of the gesture is obtained from the distribution of the related basic features. At last the distance between the feature group and model is measured using our method. Therefore the meaning of the gesture can be obtained. The experiments show that the method is both efficient and robust for the basic interactive games .","PeriodicalId":421396,"journal":{"name":"2007 14th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134327899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of dynamic images in machine vision and its application study in motion control","authors":"Dong Xia, Wang Ke-dian","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430727","url":null,"abstract":"Recent advances in high performance computing coupled with the decreasing cost of hardware now make machine vision a financially viable inspection option for even small and medium sized firms. Amongst many problems relative to the machine vision applications, the detection and tracking of moving targets is very important in many cases including industrial fields. Our challenge is to develop an effective methodology on analysis of dynamic images able to extract the moving target by using only visual sensing as input and keeping computation time and hardware cost to a minimum, typically with a standard Pentium-based computer and a standard CCD camera. This paper presents a segmentation method combining dynamic segmentation with static segmentation and examines moving object detection based primarily on inter-frame difference method. We applied the methods into the motion control of a familiar work table driving system only based on machine vision. The experimental results demonstrate that in realistic situations, detection of moving targets by using inter-frame difference method is more effective than that by using optical flow method.","PeriodicalId":421396,"journal":{"name":"2007 14th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"28 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113962435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Identification of the high SNR frequency band for bearing fault signature enhancement","authors":"I. S. Bozchalooi, M. Liang","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430711","url":null,"abstract":"Enhancement of the vibration signals measured from faulty bearings is the major step towards a successful fault detection and diagnosis. Bandpass filtering has shown to be an effective de-noising approach. Though simple, this method requires prior knowledge of the dominant resonance frequencies excited by the fault impacts. In this paper an on-line resonance frequency estimation algorithm is presented. This approach exploits the effect of variable shaft rotational speed on the measured vibration and applies a reliable wavelet based instantaneous frequency calculation method to find the proper center frequency for the bandpass filter. The proposed algorithm is evaluated using the vibrations measured from a faulty bearing and further validated with the results obtained based on the bearing impact analysis.","PeriodicalId":421396,"journal":{"name":"2007 14th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117334481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A remote acoustic monitoring system for offshore aquaculture fish cage","authors":"Xiaomei Xu, Xiaokang Zhang","doi":"10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MMVIP.2007.4430721","url":null,"abstract":"Offshore fish cage culture is being popularized in China. However, it is difficult to observe fish activity and the status of the net cage by naked eye because of the deep and turbid sea water. Aquaculture farmers, therefore, need a way to remotely observe fish activity and the status of the net cage on a regular basis without having to visit the cages themselves and give an alarm signal in the time when the bred fish in net cages escape. This paper describes the utility of using acoustic technology to monitor fish activity and distribution in offshore aquaculture fish cages, and remotely telemeter data back to shore. The monitor consists of three functional parts: a scanning sonar system located in the center of the net cage on offshore, a controlling and data processing display system located on the shore base station, a wireless data communication system. The prototype instrument was designed and the tests in pool and in the field of Xiamen harbor were carried out. Results show that the system has good performance in monitoring the fish activity, distribution and the status of the net cages under different environment conditions. The sea states effects on the performance of the monitoring system. Further testing and development is required.","PeriodicalId":421396,"journal":{"name":"2007 14th International Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126577706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}