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Illumination characteristics and image stitching for automatic inspection of bicycle part

Wen-Yang Chang (Department of Mechanical and Computer-Aided Engineering, National Formosa University, Huwei, Taiwan)
Chih-Ping Tsai (Department of Mechanical and Computer-Aided Engineering, National Formosa University, Huwei, Taiwan)

Assembly Automation

ISSN: 0144-5154

Article publication date: 9 September 2014

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Abstract

Purpose

This study aims to investigate the spectral illumination characteristics and geometric features of bicycle parts and proposes an image stitching method for their automatic visual inspection.

Design/methodology/approach

The unrealistic color casts of feature inspection is removed using white balance for global adjustment. The scale-invariant feature transforms (SIFT) is used to extract and detect the image features of image stitching. The Hough transform is used to detect the parameters of a circle for roundness of bicycle parts.

Findings

Results showed that maximum errors of 0°, 10°, 20°, 30°, 40° and 50° for the spectral illumination of white light light-emitting diode arrays with differential shift displacements are 4.4, 4.2, 7.8, 6.8, 8.1 and 3.5 per cent, respectively. The deviation error of image stitching for the stem accessory in x and y coordinates are 2 pixels. The SIFT and RANSAC enable to transform the stem image into local feature coordinates that are invariant to the illumination change.

Originality/value

This study can be applied to many fields of modern industrial manufacturing and provide useful information for automatic inspection and image stitching.

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Citation

Chang, W.-Y. and Tsai, C.-P. (2014), "Illumination characteristics and image stitching for automatic inspection of bicycle part", Assembly Automation, Vol. 34 No. 4, pp. 342-348. https://doi.org/10.1108/AA-09-2013-076

Publisher

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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