Visual Inspection of Parquet Slabs by Combining Color and Texture

The goal of this research was to find out if the performance of color based wood inspection systems could be improved by combining color and texture information. T h ~ s paper describes a wood surface inspection method that combines color percentile features with texture features based on simple spatial operators. The proposed method is tested with images from an application environment developed for detecting and recogwing defects in parquet slabs. The results indicate that the performance obtained with a state of the art color based method can be improved by using additional texture information.