Wood defects classification using laws texture energy measures and supervised learning approach

Abstract

Machine vision based inspection systems are in great focus nowadays for quality control applications. The proposed work presents a novel approach for classification of wood knot defects for an automated inspection. The proposed technique utilizes gray level co-occurrence matrix and laws texture energy measures as texture feature extractors and feed-forward back-propagation neural network as classifier. The proposed work involves the comparison of gray level co-occurrence matrix based features with laws texture energy measures based features. Firstly it takes contrast, correlation, energy and homogeneity as input parameters to a feed-forward back propagation neural network to predict wood defects and then it take energy calculated from laws texture energy measures based energy maps as input feature to a feed-forward back propagation neural network. Mean Square Error (MSE) for training data is found to be 0.0718 and 90.5% overall average classification accuracy is achieved when laws texture energy measures based features are used as input to the neural network as compared to gray level co-occurrence matrix based input features where MSE for training data is found to be 0.10728 and 84.3% overall average classification accuracy is achieved. The proposed technique shows promising results to classify wood defects using a feed forward back-propagation neural network.