Vision-Based Sorting Systems for Transparent Plastic Granulate

Sorting Plastic Bottles for Recycling

Computer Vision-based Reconstructive Plastic Surgery

by YARONG TANG (Under the Direction of SUCHENDRA M. BHANDARKAR) ABSTRACT High energy traumatic impact of the craniofacial skeleton is an inevitable consequence of today’s fast paced society. The work in the thesis leverages recent advances in computer vision, computer visualization and computer aided design/manufacturing to reduce the fractures and reconstruct the craniofacial skeleton in silic...

Transparent grippers for robot vision

While existing grippers execute manipulation tasks, they occlude parts of the objects they grasp as well as parts of the workspace from vision sensors. We present the concept of a transparent gripper that enables vision sensors to image an object without occlusion while it is being manipulated. The physics of refraction, total internal reeection, lens eeects, dispersion and transmit-tance are a...

Sorting of plastic waste for effective recycling

Separation of plastic from various types of waste streams represents one of major problematic process in energy recovery through different thermochemical processes. The sorting of plastics is a very essential step in different waste management technique. Manual sorting is suitable when plastic component are present in large amount but it is a labor intensive process. In automated sorting techni...

Sorting Units for FPGA-Based Embedded Systems

Sorting is an important operation for a number of embedded applications. As sorting large datasets may impose undesired performance degradation, acceleration units coupled to the embedded processor can be an interesting solution for speeding-up the computations. This paper presents and evaluates three hardware sorting units, bearing in mind embedded computing systems implemented with FPGAs. The...