WO1994006092A1 - Method and device for automatic evaluation of cereal grains and other granular products - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to a method and a device for automatic evaluation of cereal kernels or grains and similar granular products, e.g. beans, rice and seeds, which are handled in bulk.
- Each shipment of cereals may contain a certain amount of kernels of some other kind of cereal than the desired one, for example rye and wild oats in shipments of wheat, and of kernels which per se are of the desired kind but which are of unsatisfactory quality, for example broken- off kernels, kernels chewed by animals, green kernels and burnt kernels. Also stones and other objects are to be found among the kernels.
- GB 2,012,948 discloses a method of determining the distribution of sizes for samples of, inter alia, cereal kernels.
- the kernels are caused to fall between a screen which is illuminated by a strobo- scope, and a video camera by means of which images of the kernels are produced.
- the video images are digitised and the kernels are identified in the images.
- the distribution of sizes of the kernels in the sample is determined.
- WO 91/17525 discloses a method for automatically classifying an object into predetermined classes.
- a video camera takes time-domain images of objects which are carried one by one on a con ⁇ veyor belt past the camera.
- the time-domain images are transformed by Fourier analysis into frequency-domain signals which form input signals to a neural network effecting the actual classification.
- the object of the present invention is to provide a method and a device for automatic evaluation of granular products handled in bulk, especially cereal kernels, which method and device can replace the human inspection and evaluation.
- a method and device for automatic evaluation of granular products handled in bulk, especially cereal kernels, which method and device can replace the human inspection and evaluation.
- it must be possible to analyse a sample in about the same time it takes today to analyse it manually. More precisely, this means that it must be possible to classif and determine the weight of a sample, of about 1500 cereal kernels, in about 5 min.
- the accuracy in the classifying procedure must be high. For example, it must be possible to determine the percentage weight distribu ⁇ tion of the different components in a wheat sample with a accuracy of about 0.2% of the weight of the entire sample.
- the method and the device according to the inventi bring the advantage that a sample of cereal kernels can analysed at least as quickly as if the analysis were ca ried out manually.
- This is rendered possible in that a plurality of kernels at a time are presented to a devic which produces digital images of the kernels, each imag containing a plurality of kernels, but each kernel occu ring in one image only.
- the kernel are preferably oriented in one direction. Since the ker nels are presented in this manner, they can quickly and reliably be identified in the digital images.
- the class fication of the kernels is carried out by means of a ne ral network whose input signals are based on the pictur element values of a plurality of picture elements repre senting the kernel.
- picture element value is here meant a value whi is used to represent the picture element; for example t intensity in monochrome images; red, green and blue int sity in RGB representation in colour images; hue, satur tion and intensity in HSI representation in colour imag
- picture element value is here meant a value whi is used to represent the picture element; for example t intensity in monochrome images; red, green and blue int sity in RGB representation in colour images; hue, satur tion and intensity in HSI representation in colour imag
- it is adv tageous to produce the input signals to the neural netw by providing a weighted addition of the picture element values for a plurality of picture elements, thereby com pressing the information contents of the picture elemen representing a kernel.
- kernels classified into one or more definite classes can be physically separated after the classification procedure, whereupon the separated kernels are weighed separately as are the non-separated kernels, thereby determining the weight of the different fractions.
- the extent of each coherent area of picture elements representing a kernel is determined perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the area, and it is investigated whether the extent has a minimum (or a plurality of minimums) in some other place than at the ends of the area. If this is the case, the image is estimated to contain two (or more) kernels and is divided at the minimum(s).
- the morphological properties of the kernels can be determined by means of the picture elements representing the kernel.
- Fig. 1 illustrates an embodiment of a device according to the invention, the feeding device being shown in longitudinal section and the image process ⁇ ing device as a block diagram
- Fig. 2 is a schematic side view of a separation device which may supplement the device in Fig. 1
- Fig. 3 is an end view of the sepa ⁇ rating device in Fig. 2, and a scale.
- the invention essentially com ⁇ prises a feeding device 1, a video camera 40 and an image processing device 2.
- the feeding device 1 comprises a first belt conveyor 3 arranged in a casing 4 and having a first wheel 5 driven by a motor (not shown), a second wheel 6, and an endless belt 7 running over the wheels 5, 6.
- the belt 7 is formed with grooves 8 in which the cereal kernels are portioned out.
- the belt may have indentations designed in some other manner.
- the casing 4 contains a store 9 which tapers off to the belt 7 and which is filled with samples of cereal ker ⁇ nels.
- the store 9 comprises two plates 10, 11 which are inclined towards one another. The lower end of the plate 10 is spaced from the belt 7, and a scraper 12 is attach ⁇ ed to this end to take down the cereal kernels into the grooves 8.
- a second belt conveyor 15 is arranged vertically and horizontally offset relative to the first belt conveyor 3.
- the second belt conveyor 15 comprises a first wheel 16 driven by a motor (not shown), a second wheel 17 and an endless belt 18 running over the first and second wheels 16, 17.
- the belt 18 is formed with grooves 14 in which the kernels are conveyed.
- the grooves 14 in the second con ⁇ veyor are closer to each other than those in the first conveyor, and their width is adjusted to kernels in a given size interval such that the kernels orient them ⁇ selves in the longitudinal direction of the grooves.
- the colour of the belt is selected to provide a strong con ⁇ trast to the background.
- the first wheel 16 of the second belt conveyor 15 is arranged below the second wheel 6 of the first belt con ⁇ veyor 3 such that cereal kernels can fall down from the first conveyor 3 onto the second conveyor 15.
- Two plates 20, 21 are arranged between the first belt conveyor 3 and the second belt conveyor 15. When the kernels fall from the first conveyor, they bounce first against the plate 20 and then against the plate 21, the kernels thereby spread- ing.
- At the sides of the second belt conveyor there are arranged, adjacent its first wheel 16, limiting means 22 serving to locate the kernels from the beginning at a cer ⁇ tain distance from the edges of the belt 18.
- the front end of the limiting means 22 in the belt direction is provided with a curtain 23 which is arranged to pass down the ker ⁇ nels into the grooves of the endless belt 18 and ensure that the kernels form one layer and that they do not over ⁇ lap each other.
- a vibrator 25 Between the first wheel 16 and the third wheel 19, and between the upper and lower reach of the belt 18, there is arranged a vibrator 25.
- the vibrator comprises a shaft 26 to which one end of a metal sheet 27 is attached. Its other end is arranged between a roller 28 driven by a motor (not shown), and the lower side of the belt 18.
- the end surface of the roller 28 is fitted with three washers 29, mounted with play by means of screws.
- the metal sheet 27 will hit the belt with a fixed frequency and produce vibrations in the belt 18.
- the amplitude of the vibrations is deter- mined by the position of the roller 28 and the play of the washers.
- the amplitude should be the same, independently of the rigidness of the belt.
- a tooth detecting unit 31 Adjacent the third wheel 19, there is arranged a tooth detecting unit 31. This is mounted on one side of the circumference of the third wheel 19 and comprises a light emitter in the form of a light diode 32 and a light receiver in the form of a photocell 33.
- the tooth detect ⁇ ing unit 31 is connected (not shown) to a computer 42. When the third wheel 19 rotates, the tooth detecting unit 31 emits a pulse-shaped signal to the computer 42.
- the third wheel 19 also serves to damp vibrations in the belt 18 in the area between the third wheel 19 and the second wheel 17.
- a video camera 40 in such a manner that images of the belt 18 in the vicinity of the second wheel 17 can be taken.
- annular lamp 41 between the camera and the belt.
- the camera 40 is connect ed to the image processing device 2 whose design and func tion will be described in more detail below.
- the function of the feeding device 1 will now be described.
- a sample of cereal kernels is poured on to the first belt conveyor 3 through the store 9.
- the ker ⁇ nels then form a heap on the belt, but when the belt moves, they will, owing to the upward inclination of the belt and through the scraper 12, be spread portionwise in the grooves 8 of the belt.
- the limit ⁇ ing means 22 prevent the kernels from landing on the edges of this belt. Owing to the vibrations of the second belt 18, the advancing kernels will move sideways in the grooves towards the edges of the belt. The kernels posi ⁇ tioned on the ridges between the grooves will fall down into the grooves. When the kernels reach the area under the video camera 40, they will therefore be separated in the longitudinal direction of the belt, be oriented in essentially the same direction and be positioned in essen ⁇ tially one layer on the belt. The kernels will thus over ⁇ lap each other but to a very small extent. The kernels may, however, lie close together in the grooves in the longitudinal direction thereof.
- a stop signal is emitted, and the computer 42 stops all driving motors. Then the first and the second belt stop, and the vibrations are discontinued. After a short wait, the computer 42 emits a signal to the video camera 40 which takes an image of the kernels on th belt 18. Subsequently, the motors are started again, and the feeding of the kernels continues as described above until a stop signal is again emitted.
- the reason why the system waits after the belt conveyor has stopped is that any movements of the kernels should be damped such that the kernels lie still.
- the third wheel 19 contributes, as mentioned above, to the reduction of the amplitude of the vibrations in the area under the camera 40 such that the waiting time can be kept short.
- the predetermined number of teeth after which the stop signal is emitted is select ⁇ ed such that the video camera will take images of the belt which cover the belt without interspaces, but without overlappings. In other words, each kernel passing the video camera will occur in exactly one image, and each image will include a plurality of kernels.
- the belt can be moved continuously and the lamp 41 can be replaced by a stroboscope which together with the camera 40 is controlled such that images are taken of the belt without interspaces and without overlappings.
- the image processing unit 2 fundamentally comprises a computer 42 connected to the video camera 40, and a user terminal 43 on whose display device the result of the ana ⁇ lysis is presented.
- the computer 42 there are programs for classification and other evaluation of the cereal ker ⁇ nels based on the images produced by the video camera 40. These programs comprise a conversion of the video signals from the camera 40 into suitable input signals to a neural network program which effects the actual classification. If the device is not used for classification, but is used for e.g. determining sizes, the computer need not include the neural network.
- the digi ⁇ tised image produced consists of e.g. 512 x 512 picture elements.
- the picture elements are represented by RGB representation, i.e. by a value of the intensity of red colour, a value of the intensity of green colour and a value of the intensity of blue colour. Alternatively, a grey scale or some other colour representation may be used.
- the program locates the kernels in the digitised image. Here use is made of a threshold value of the colour in each picture element.
- RGB representation Hue, Satu ⁇ ration and Intensity
- HSI representation Hue, Satu ⁇ ration and Intensity
- the longitudinal axis of the connected picture elements is determined to repre ⁇ sent a kernel. If the direction of the longitudinal axis deviates by more than a predetermined value from the y axis of the image, the coherent kernel area is rotated until its longitudinal axis is parallel with the y axis of the image.
- the coherent kernel area identified in the image may thus represent more than one kernel.
- the number of picture elements in x direction which represent a ker ⁇ nel is summed up for each y value in the coherent kernel area.
- the program thus makes a histogram of the number of kernel picture.elements in x direction. Then an envelope curve of the histogram is determined, and it isomme- gated whether there is a minimum between the envelope curve terminal points in y direction.
- a sufficiently mark ⁇ ed minimum indicates that the coherent kernel picture ele- ment area actually corresponds to two kernels. If so, the program makes a cut in parallel with the x axis at the minimum of the envelope curve. Subsequently, each part of the coherent kernel picture element area is stored as an image of a kernel. If there are a plurality of minimums, a cut is made at each minimum. If a separation of a kernel picture element area has been carried out, the longitudi ⁇ nal axis of each kernel is determined, and the kernel is rotated, if the deviation from the y axis of the image is greater than the predetermined value.
- each kernel is inclined relative to the y axis, which is a drawback in the classification.
- the size of each kernel can be determined by counting the number of picture elements in the coherent picture element area representing the kernel. Also the shape and colour of each kernel can be determined by studying the picture elements.
- the size determination can also be used to avoid that the image processing device perceives stones and other foreign objects that may join the kernels, as kernels. If the size of a coherent picture element area is not within a certain interval, it is considered to represent a foreign object and is registered as such.
- the RGB values of the picture ele ⁇ ments are converted into HSI values. This conversion is not necessary, but it has appeared that the classification of cereal kernels will be more correct if HSI representa- tion is used instead of RGB representation.
- the H values are summed up separately, the I values are also summed up separately, as well as the S values, along rows and columns in the image of a kernel. For each y coordinate, first the values of the H component of all x coordinates are thus summed up. Then the corresponding addition for the I value and the S value is carried out.
- the standardised sums constitute input signals to a neural network.
- a neural network is a program consisting of a number of input nodes, in this case one for each sum, and a number of output nodes which in this case represent each of the possible classes into which the kernels can be classified. Between the input nodes and output nodes, there are hidden nodes.
- the neural network can be trained to classify kernels correct ⁇ ly.
- the neural network has learnt to classify the different interesting kernels, it can be used to classify previously unseen kernels.
- the hidden nodes are sigmoid functions, which makes it possible to adapt input data to a substantially arbitrary (linear/non-linear) function. If the classes are linearly dependent on the input nodes, the network is trained to effect a linear discriminant adapta ⁇ tion.
- the neural network method thus comprises linear dis ⁇ criminant adaptation as a special case.
- Each output node is represented by a value between 0 and 1.
- a kernel is evaluated as belonging to the class whose corresponding output node has the greatest value.
- it is also possible to favour a certain kind of cereal For this purpose, random samples are taken before the classification, it is determined which kind of cereal is predominant, and this is reported to the neural network.
- the kernel is not classified into the class whose output node has the greatest value, but into the class whose output node has the second greatest value.
- Foreign objects are defined by the value of all output units being lower than a given threshold value.
- the result of the classification is presented on the display device of the user terminal 43, for example in the form of a histogram with a bar for each kind of cereal, one for wild oats, one for burnt kernels and one for damaged kernels. The result can be presented in % by weight of the sample.
- the sample consisted of 5.00% rye; 5.00% oats; 5.00% barley; 5.00% burnt wheat kernels; 0.00% wild oats; 5.00% damaged wheat kernels and 75.00% wheat, x is the average and s(x) is the standard deviation. All values are % by weight of the weight of the sample.
- the weight of the different fractions can be determined by means of the arrangement schematically shown in Figs 2 an 3, by which the device in Fig. 1 may be supplemented.
- the arrangement is mounted at the end of the second belt 18 after the position in which the camera 40 takes an image of the kernels on the belt.
- the arrangement comprises a third belt 51 which constitutes a cover over the second belt 18 and which is driven synchronously therewith by means of a toothed belt 60 connecting the wheel 17 of the second belt 18 to a toothed shaft 61 of the third belt.
- the third belt 51 comprises alternating grooves 51a and ridges 51b which are aligned with grooves 18a and ridges 18b in the second belt 18, thereby forming a plurality of channels 62 between the sides of the second and third belt facing each other.
- the arrangement in Figs 2 and 3 further comprises a separating means for each channel formed by the belt and the cover.
- the separating means comprises a compressed-air source 52 and a pipe 53 connecting the compressed-air source with the mouth of the corresponding channel, when the cover 51 is lowered onto the belt.
- On the other side of the belt there is a container 54 directly opposite the mouths of the channels.
- Below the end of the belt 18 there is arranged a further container 55 on a scale 56.
- the first container 54 can be connected to the second con ⁇ tainer 56 via a duct 57.
- a wheat sample with an admixture of rye in which the weights of the wheat fraction and the rye fraction, respectively, are to be determined.
- the computer 42 in a first moment, identifies one or more rye kernels in an image taken by the camera 40.
- the belt 18 has advanced one step for the camera to take the next image, then the surface of the belt, on which the kernels in the preceding moment were analysed, will be covered by the third belt 51, and the identified rye kernels will be positioned in one or more of the channels 62.
- the computer 42 activates the compressed-air source(s) 52 in whose cor ⁇ responding channels a rye kernel has been identified.
- the rye kernel and wheat kernels, if any, which are positioned in the same channel, are blown into the container 54, whereupon the belt 18 can be advanced when the next image should be taken.
- the kernels remaining on the belt 18, which thus are wheat kernels, fall down into the container 55 as the belt advances.
- the wheat kernels are weighed in the container 55 by means of the scale 56. Subsequently, the wheat ker ⁇ nels are emptied, and the rye kernels and the wheat ker ⁇ nels, if any, in the container 54 are let down into the container 55 and weighed.
- the sample besides rye, contains an admixture of bar ⁇ ley
- the barley kernels can be blown into a special con ⁇ tainer and weighed separately.
- the arrangement in Figs 2 and 3 can also be used to blow away objects which the computer cannot identify. In this case, a signal is suitably emitted to an operator to request a manual check.
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