A real-time visual inspection system for railway maintenance: Automatic hexagonal-headed bolts detection

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 418-428

  Marino, Francescomaria ^a   Distante, Arcangelo ^b   Mazzeo, Pier Luigi ^b   Stella, Ettore ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS FOR AUTOMATION   (Italy)

Author keywords

Machine vision; Neural network applications; Object recognition; Pattern recognition; Rail transportation maintenance; Real time systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); INSPECTION; MAINTENANCE; MONITORING; MULTILAYER NEURAL NETWORKS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

MULTILAYER PERCEPTRON NEURAL CLASSIFIERS; RAIL TRANSPORTATION MAINTENANCE; VISUAL INSPECTION;

RAILROADS;

EID: 34247269033     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2007.893278     Document Type: Article

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