Improving the efficiency and effectiveness of railcar safety appliance inspection using machine vision technology

ASME/IEEE 2006 Joint Rail Conference, JRC2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 81-89

  Edwards, Riley ^a   Barkan, Christopher P L ^a   Hart, John M ^b   Todorovic, Sinisa ^b   Ahuja, Narendra ^b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DEFECTS; EFFICIENCY; ENGINES; INSPECTION; LADDERS; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; RAIL MOTOR CARS;

DIGITAL VIDEOS; EFFECTIVENESS AND EFFICIENCIES; FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION; INSPECTION PROCESS; INSPECTION SYSTEM; MACHINE VISION TECHNOLOGIES; SAFETY RULES; VISUAL LEARNING;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 77955886299     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/rrcon.2006.215296     Document Type: Conference Paper

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