Online Vision System and Measuring Parameters for Bubbles in Mineral Flotation

Author

Wang, Weixing ; Yanzhong Hu ; Wei Liu ; Zhiwei Ye

Author_Institution

Coll. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Hubei Univ. of Technol., Wuhan

fYear

2009

fDate

23-24 May 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

In mineral processing, mineral flotation is a widely used traditional method for obtaining minerals. Normally, the froth surface is monitored and controlled by an operator who has good experiences for production optimisation, which is tedious and personal dependent. In order to overcome these disadvantages, a machine vision system was developed for monitoring froth surface variation. This paper presents such an online vision system. The system consists of hardware and software; here we just present software and relative bubble measurement parameters. About 56 visual parameters are used to characterize a bubble after image segmentation. Since industrial parameters (outputs) are not only visual parameters, we set up a platform for the combination of these parameters. In this way, the system works well and can meet industrial needs.

Keywords

computer vision; image segmentation; image segmentation; machine vision system; mineral flotation; mineral processing; online vision system; production optimisation; Algorithms; Application software; Computer vision; Image analysis; Image color analysis; Image processing; Image segmentation; Image texture analysis; Machine vision; Minerals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Systems and Applications, 2009. ISA 2009. International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3893-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3894-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWISA.2009.5072987

Filename

5072987