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Real-time ore sorting using color and texture analysis
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DOI：10.1016/j.ijmst.2023.03.004.png)
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Sensor-based ore sorting is a technology used to classify high-grade mineralized rocks from low-grade waste rocks to reduce operation costs. Many ore-sorting algorithms using color images have been proposed in the past, but only some validate their results using mineral grades or optimize the algorithms to classify rocks in real-time. This paper presents an ore-sorting algorithm based on image processing and machine learning that is able to classify rocks from a gold and silver mine based on their grade. The algorithm is composed of four main stages: (1) image segmentation and partition, (2) color and texture feature extraction, (3) sub-image classification using neural networks, and (4) a voting system to determine the overall class of the rock. The algorithm was trained using images of rocks that a geologist manually classified according to their mineral content and then was validated using a different set of rocks analyzed in a laboratory to determine their gold and silver grades. The proposed method achieved a Matthews correlation coefficient of 0.961 points, higher than other classification algorithms based on support vector machines and convolutional neural networks, and a processing time under 44 ms, promising for real-time ore sorting applications. & COPY; 2023 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of China University of Mining & Technology. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Keywords:
Ore sorting
Image color analysis
Image texture analysis
Machine learning
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