Automated segmentation of gravel particles from depth images of gravel-soil mixtures

Rahmani, Hossein and Scanlan, C. A. and Nadeem, Uzair and Bennamoun, Mohammed and Bowles, Richard (2019) Automated segmentation of gravel particles from depth images of gravel-soil mixtures. Computers and Geosciences, 128. pp. 1-10. ISSN 0098-3004

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Abstract

We propose an image-based technique to measure the volume, weight and the size distribution of gravel particles in a gravel-soil mixture. The proposed method uses 3D scanning and a surface reconstruction algorithm to generate a high-resolution depth image, which is then used to accurately estimate the volume and weight of each gravel particle. The proposed method is evaluated on several gravel soil samples collected from 25 farming locations. The experimental results show that the proposed technique produces an accurate estimate of gravel volumes and gravel weights. It achieves a relative root mean square error of 4% for large gravel particles and an overall correlation of 0.99 with the ground truth, for the task of gravel volume estimation. For the estimation of gravel weight distribution, the proposed method can reach a low root mean square error of 0.54%. The rapid measurement of the full spectrum of coarse fragments in soil, using this method, is an advantage compared to the manual methods.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Computers and Geosciences
Uncontrolled Keywords:
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Subjects:
?? SEGMENTATIONPOINT CLOUDSUPPORT VECTOR MACHINEIMAGE CLASSIFICATIONVOLUME ESTIMATIONGRAVEL WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONCOMPUTERS IN EARTH SCIENCESINFORMATION SYSTEMS ??
ID Code:
132392
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Deposited On:
01 Apr 2019 08:35
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
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18 Sep 2023 01:33