An image-based feature tracking algorithm for real-time measurement of clad height

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 343-354

  Iravani Tabrizipour, Mehrdad ^a   Toyserkani, Ehsan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Image processing; Laser cladding; Perspective transformation; Recurrent neural network; Trinocular CCD based optical detector

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CCD CAMERAS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL DEVICES; RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORKS;

BOUNDARY TRACING METHOD; PERSPECTIVE TRANSFORMATION; TRINOCULAR CCD-BASED OPTICAL DETECTOR;

LASER CLADDING;

EID: 36549069803     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: 14321769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-006-0066-7     Document Type: Article

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