A review of the automated timber defect identification approach
Abstract
Timber quality control is undoubtedly a very laborious process in the secondary wood industry. Manual inspections by operators are prone to human error, thereby resulting in poor timber quality inspections and low production volumes. The automation of this process using an automated vision inspection (AVI) system integrated with artificial intelligence appears to be the most plausible approach due to its ease of use and minimal operating costs. This paper provides an overview of previous works on the automated inspection of timber surface defects as well as various machine learning and deep learning approaches that have been implemented for the identification of timber defects. Contemporary algorithms and techniques used in both machine learning and deep learning are discussed and outlined in this review paper. Furthermore, the paper also highlighted the possible limitation of employing both approaches in the identification of the timber defect along with several future directions that may be further explored.
Reference
Teo Hong Chun; Ummi Raba’ah Hashim; Sabrina Ahmad; Lizawati Salahuddin; Ngo Hea Choon; Kasturi Kanchymalay. (2023). A review of the automated timber defect identification approach. International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE). https://doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v13i2.pp2156-2166
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