Coal rock image recognition method based on improved CLBP and receptive field theory

Abstract

AbstractRapid coal‐rock identification is one of the key technologies for intelligent and unmanned coal mining. Currently, the existing image recognition algorithms cannot satisfy practical needs in terms of recognition speed and accuracy. In view of the evident differences between coal and rock in visual attributes such as color, gloss and texture, the complete local binary pattern (CLBP) image feature descriptor is introduced for coal and rock image recognition. Given that the original algorithm oversimplifies local texture features by ignoring imaging information from higher‐order pixels and the concave and convex areas between adjacent sampling points, this paper proposes a higher‐order differential median CLBP image feature descriptor to replace the original CLBP center pixel gray with a local gray median, and replace the binary differential with a second‐order differential. Meanwhile, for the high dimensionality of CLBP descriptor histogram and feature redundancy, deep learning perceptual field theory is introduced to realize data nonlinear dimensionality reduction and deep feature extraction. With relevant experiments conducted, the following conclusion can be drawn: (1) Compared with that of the original CLBP, the recognition accuracy of the improved CLBP algorithm is greatly improved and finally stabilized above 94.3% under strong noise interference; (2) Compared with that of the original CLBP model, the single image recognition time of the coal rock image recognition model fusing the improved CLBP and the receptive field theory is 0.0035 s, a reduction of 71.0%; compared with the improved CLBP model (without the fusion of receptive field theory), it can shorten the recognition time by 97.0%, but the accuracy rate still maintains more than 98.5%. The method offers a valuable technical reference for the fields of mineral development and deep mining.