Waste paper grade identification system using window features

Journal of Computational Information Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2077-2091

  Rahman, Mohammad Osiur ^a   Hussain, Aini ^a   Scavino, Edgar ^a   Basri, Noor Ezlin Ahmad ^a   Basri, Hassan ^a   Hannan, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Grades of paper; Template matching; Waste paper sorting

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC IMAGES; END-PRODUCTS; GRADES OF PAPER; HIGH QUALITY; HUE AND SATURATIONS; IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; MECHANICAL PAPER; OLD CORRUGATED CARDBOARDS; OLD NEWSPRINT; OPTICAL PAPER; RECYCLING PROCESS; SORTING METHOD; SORTING SYSTEM; TEMPLATE DATABASE; VISION SENSING SYSTEM; WASTE PAPER SORTING; WHITE PAPERS; WINDOW SIZE;

IMAGE PROCESSING; PAPER PRODUCTS; RECYCLING; SENSORS; TEMPLATE MATCHING; THROUGHPUT; WASTE PAPER;

ENERGY CONVERSION;

CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PAPER GRADES; PAPER PRODUCTS; RECYCLING; SORTING; THROUGHPUT; WASTE PAPERS;

EID: 77957763816     PISSN: 15539105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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