Wood inspection with non-supervised clustering

Authors:
Olli Silvén;Matti Niskanen;Hannu Kauppinen
Affiliations:
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, P.O.B. 4500, 90015 Oulu, Finland;Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, P.O.B. 4500, 90015 Oulu, Finland;Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Oulu, P.O.B. 4500, 90015 Oulu, Finland
Venue:
Machine Vision and Applications
Year:
2003

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Abstract

The appearance of sawn timber has huge natural variations that the human inspector easily compensates for mentally when determining the types of defects and the grade of each board. However, for automatic wood inspection systems these variations are a major source for complication. This makes it difficult to use textbook methodologies for visual inspection. These methodologies generally aim at systems that are trained in a supervised manner with samples of defects and good material, but selecting and labeling the samples is an error-prone process that limits the accuracy that can be achieved. We present a non-supervised clustering-based approach for detecting and recognizing defects in lumber boards. A key idea is to employ a self-organizing map (SOM) for discriminating between sound wood and defects. Human involvement needed for training is minimal. The approach has been tested with color images of lumber boards, and the achieved false detection and error escape rates are low. The approach also provides a self-intuitive visual user interface.