A new hardware module for automated visual inspection based on a cellular automaton architecture |
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Authors: | I Andreadis I Karafyllidis P Tzionas A Thanailakis Ph Tsalides |
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Affiliation: | (1) Section of Electronics and Information Systems Technology, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, 67100 Xanthi, Greece |
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Abstract: | This paper presents the design and VLSI implementation of a new automated visual inspection system based on a cellular automaton
architecture, suitable for circular object inspection. Cellular Automata (CA) transform the area of the object of interest
into a number of evolution steps in the CA space. The proposed technique does not require the extraction of image features,
such as boundary length and total area, which are computationally expensive in other methods. The die size dimensions of the
chip, for a 16×16 pixel image, are 3.73 mm×3.09 mm=11.52 mm2 and its maximum frequency of operation is 25 MHz. Experimental results using computer-generated images, as well as real images
obtained and processed through a commercial vision system, showing the suitability of the proposed hardware module for detecting
circular objects, are also presented. Targeted applications include inspection tasks (accept/reject operations) of circular
objects, such as tablets in the pharmaceutical industry, and detection of uncoated areas, foreign objects and level of bake
in the confectionery and food industry. |
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Keywords: | Visual inspection detection of uncoated areas cellular automata ASICs |
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