Camera Based Product Counting of Belt Conveyors

Year 2014, Volume: 4 Issue: 2, 771 - 785, 01.12.2014

M. Uğur Parlak

Abstract

This work involves the development of a vision-based system for counting the number of products that pass on a conveyor belt. The system has applications in automatic control and optimization of industrial processes that involve belt conveyors and their related packaging operations. Determining automatically the number of products to be packaged without the need for additional hardware setup yields an important reducement in the initial cost of the complete installation. In this work, by introducing a vision based approach, thus with involvement of image and video processing techniques, counting of products passing on a belt conveyor system just using a camera is investigated.

Keywords

Matlab, Conveyor Belt, Image Processing, Simuling, Image Processing Toolbox, Camera Based Product Counting On Belt Conveyors

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