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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 103
PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFT COMPUTING TECHNOLOGY IN CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Edited by: Y. Tsompanakis
Paper 21

An Automatic Sorting System for Recycling Beverage Cans using the Eigenface Algorithm

I. Yani1, E. Scavino2, M.A. Hannan2, D.A. Wahab3 and H. Basri1

1Department of Civil and Structural Engineering
2Department of Electrical, Electronic and System Engineering
3Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering
Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, National University of Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
I. Yani, E. Scavino, M.A. Hannan, D.A. Wahab, H. Basri, "An Automatic Sorting System for Recycling Beverage Cans using the Eigenface Algorithm", in Y. Tsompanakis, (Editor), "Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Soft Computing Technology in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 21, 2013. doi:10.4203/ccp.103.21
Keywords: automatic sorting, eigenface, detection, beverage cans, pattern recognition.

Summary
This paper describes the prototype implementation of a real-time automatic identification and sorting system for recyclable beverage cans using an intelligent computer vision technique. The image recognition system was developed based on the eigenface algorithm and achieved its ability to identify and sort by means of an automatic learning process. Three experiments have been conducted based on position and types of beverage cans moving on a conveyor belt. The results show that the identification and sorting of beverage cans achieved with an accuracy of up to 95%. It is concluded that the performance of the proposed system is robust enough for commercial applications.

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