Ore grade estimation by feature selection and voting using boundary detection in digital image analysis

International Journal of Mineral Processing

Volumn 101, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 28-36

  Perez, Claudio A ^a   Estévez, Pablo A ^a   Vera, Pablo A ^a   Castillo, Luis E ^a   Aravena, Carlos M ^a   Schulz, Daniel A ^a   Medina, Leonel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Ore sorting; Rock grindability; Rock image analysis; Rock lithological classification

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BOUNDARY DETECTION; BOUNDARY INFORMATION; CLASS-BASED; COLOR AND TEXTURE FEATURES; DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; DIMENSIONAL SPACES; DRY AND WET; EXTRACTION PROCESS; IMAGE DATABASE; MINERAL COMPOSITION; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS; ORE GRADES; ORE SORTING; ORIGINAL IMAGES; PLANT CONTROL; ROCK BOUNDARIES; ROCK CLASSIFICATION; ROCK COMPOSITION; SUBIMAGES; VOTING METHOD; VOTING PROCESS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATABASE SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LITHOLOGY; ORE ANALYSIS; ORE TREATMENT; ROCKS; SILICATE MINERALS; SORTING; TEXTURES;

INFORMATION USE;

EID: 80055019367     PISSN: 03017516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.minpro.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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