Artificial Intelligence Applications in Wood Manufacturing Group XIX IUFRO World Congress Division 5, Forest Products Montreal, Canada August 5-20, 1990 COMPUTER VISION SYSTEMS FOR HARDWOOD LOGS AND LUMBER
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Computer vision systems being developed at Virginia Tech University with the support and cooperation from the U.S. Forest Service are presented. Researchers at Michigan State University, West Virginia University, and Mississippi State University are also members of the research team working on various parts of this research. Our goals are to help U.S. hardwood producers automate, reduce costs, increase product volume and value recovery, and market more accurately graded and described products.
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Machine Vision Systems for Processing Hardwood Lumber and Logs
Machine vision and automated processing systems are under development at Virginia Tech University with support and cooperation from the USDA Forest Service. Our goals are to help U.S. hardwood producers automate, reduce costs, increase product volume and value recovery, and market higher value, more accurately graded and described products. Any vision system is composed of two bread tasks: imag...
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