Performance analysis of colour descriptors for parquet sorting

  • Authors:
  • Francesco Bianconi;Antonio FernáNdez;Elena GonzáLez;Stefano A. Saetta

  • Affiliations:
  • Universití degli Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento Ingegneria Industriale, Via G. Duranti 67, 06125 Perugia, Italy;Universidade de Vigo, Escuela de Ingenierıa Industrial, Campus Universitario, 36310 Vigo, Spain;Universidade de Vigo, Escuela de Ingenierıa Industrial, Campus Universitario, 36310 Vigo, Spain;Universití degli Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento Ingegneria Industriale, Via G. Duranti 67, 06125 Perugia, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

In this paper we consider the problem of colour-based sorting hardwood parquet slabs into lots of similar visual appearance. As a basis for the development of an expert system to perform this task, we experimentally investigate and compare the performance of various colour descriptors (i.e.: soft descriptors, percentiles, marginal histograms and 3D histogram), and colour spaces (i.e.: RGB, HSV and CIE Lab). The results show that simple and compact colour descriptors, such as the mean of each colour channel, are as accurate as more complicated features. Likewise, we found no statistically significant difference in the accuracy attainable through the colour spaces considered in the paper. Our experiments also show that most methods are fast enough for real-time processing. The results suggest the use of simple statistical descriptors along with RGB data as the best practice to approach the problem.