Inspecting colour tonality on textured surfaces

Abstract

We present a multidimensional histogram method to inspect tonality on colour textured surfaces, e.g. ceramic tiles. Comparison in the noise dominated chromatic channels is error prone. We perform vector-ordered colour smoothing and generate a PCA-based reconstruction of a query tile based on a reference tile eigenspace. Histograms of local feature vectors are then compared for tonality defect detection. The proposed method is compared and evaluated on a data set with groundtruth. © Springer-Verlag 2004.