Ceramic Tile Inspection (and Texture Analysis)
The ceramic tiles manufacturing
process has now been completely automated with the exception of the final stage
of production concerned with visual inspection. In this project a consortium of academic establishments and companies (supported by the EEC, under BRITE-EURAM project no. BE5638) developed an
integrated system for the detection of defects on color ceramic tiles
and for the color grading of defect-free tiles. The results suggest that the
performance is adequate to provide a basis for a viable commercial visual
inspection system.
The work on ceramic tile inspection reported in the papers listed below were carried out at Surrey University. There are also many related works available on other aspects of this project. Please consult the CVSSP Publications Archive at Surrey U.
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C. Boukouvalas,
F. De Natale,
G. De
Toni,
J. Kittler,
R. Marik,
M. Mirmehdi,
M. Petrou,
P. Le
Roy,
R. Salgari,
and G. Vernazza.
ASSIST: Automatic system for
surface inspection and sorting of tiles.
Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 82(1-3):179--188, October
1998.
We regret that the paper is not on-line, please contact the author.
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C. Boukouvalas,
F. De Natale,
G. De
Toni,
J. Kittler,
R. Marik,
M. Mirmehdi,
M. Petrou,
P. Le
Roy,
R. Salgari,
and G. Vernazza.
An Integrated System
for Quality Inspection of Tiles.
In Int. Conference on Quality Control by Artificial Vision, QCAV 97,
pages 49--54. Universit de Bourgogne, May 1997.
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M. Mirmehdi,
R. Marik,
J. Kittler,
and M. Petrou.
Structural Defect
Detection in Random Macro Textures.
In Proceedings of Signal Processing VIII, Theories and Applications,
volume III, pages 1499--1502, September 1996.
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M. Mirmehdi,
R. Marik,
M. Petrou,
and J. Kittler.
Iterative
Morphology for Fault Detection in Stochastic Textures.
IEE Electronic Letters, 32(5):443--444, February 1996.
We regret that the paper is not on-line, please contact the author.
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C. Boukouvalas,
J. Kittler,
R. Marik,
M. Mirmehdi,
and
M. Petrou.
Ceramic tile
inspection for colour and structural defects.
In Proceedings of AMPT95, pages 390--399, August 1995.
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S. Fioravanti,
R. Fioravanti,
F.G.
DeNatale,
R. Marik,
M. Mirmehdi,
J. Kittler,
and
M. Petrou.
Spectral and rank
order approaches to texture analysis.
European Transactions on Telecommunications, 6(3):287--300, May 1995.
We regret that the paper is not on-line, please contact the author.
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C. Boukouvalas,
J. Kittler,
R. Marik,
M. Mirmehdi,
and
M. Petrou.
Automatic inspection
of ceramic tiles.
In ERA Technology: Implementing Optics for Measurement, Monitoring, and
Control - Practical Solutions for Industry, pages 4.3.01--4.3.10,
December 1994.
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J. Kittler,
R. Marik,
M. Mirmehdi,
M. Petrou,
and J. Song.
Detection of defects
in colour texture surfaces.
In IAPR Proc. of Machine Vision Applications 94, pages 558--567,
December 1994.
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Majid Mirmehdi,
M.Mirmehdi@cs.bris.ac.uk, February 2000