PAPVISION - Paper Printability Inspection Using Machine Vision

"Machine Vision Solutions for Paper and Printing Industry"

Goals

The ultimate goal of the Papvision project is to provide novel innovative machine vision and pattern recognition solutions to paper and printing industry. The current focus is on novel paper printability assessments which are based on machine vision.

The secondary objective is to serve the national paper and printing industry as a research organization for machine vision and pattern recognition. Our mission is "listen to industrial partners - study solutions to their problems - and provide necessary knowledge to implement the solutions". The scientific objective is to perform scientific research, publish new results, and educate young masters and doctors specialized in scientific computation, especially machine vision and pattern recognition, in paper and printing industry.

Industrial partners:
Tekes Stora Enso Oyj UPM-Kymmene Oyj Myllykoski Paper Oy Metso Paper Oy Future Printing Center Raisio Chemicals Hansaprint Oy Omya Labvision Technologies	This project is funded by the European Union (#70049/03,#70056/04) and Academy of Finland (#204708)

Sub-projects

HELIOTEST - Detection of Missing Dots from Printed Patterns
PICKING - Detection of Paper Surface Defects
MOTTLING - Measuring unevenness of solid printed areas
PAPPROTO1 - Measurement system for paper printability assessments
GLOSS - Accurate Paper Gloss Measurements (restricted access)
MULTIRES - Multi-Resolution Approach to Paper Printability Evaluation (restricted access)
PAPPROTO2 - "Revolutionary" measurement system for paper printability assessments (restricted access)

News

The final year of the project was started. The sub-projects will be finished and results will be published. Prototypes and demo softwares will be finalized and given to the industrial partners.

Contact information

Lappeenranta University of Technology
Heikki Kï¿½viï¿½nen	E-mail	WWW	Director, professor
Lasse Lensu	E-mail	WWW	Project manager, post-doc researcher
Pasi Saarinen	E-mail	WWW	Industry coordinator
Joni Kämäräinen	E-mail	WWW	Post-doc researcher
Jarkko Vartiainen	E-mail	WWW	Graduate researcher
Albert Sadovnikov	E-mail	WWW	Graduate researcher
Pekka Paalanen	E-mail	WWW	Undergraduate researcher
Fahad Rizvi	E-mail	WWW	Undergraduate researcher

Former project figures:
Petja Salmela	E-mail	WWW	Graduated
Alexander Drobchenko	E-mail	WWW	Graduated
Sami Lyden	E-mail	WWW	Graduated
Tuomas Eerola	E-mail	WWW	Graduated
Tomi Kauppi	E-mail	WWW	Graduated

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Source code

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Data sets

Not publicly available

Links to other resources

Industrial assessment and measurement system providers
IGT Testing Systems	Test printing devices
Ambertec	MV analyzers
Emco
Mitaten Finland Oy
Research laboratories on machine vision in printing industry
Printing Industry Center, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA	High quality research
School of Information Science, Halmstad University, Sweden.
Center for ink and printability: Printability reseach and testing, Michigan University, USA.
Visual Quality and Visual Science research groups, Department of Psychology, Helsinki University, Finland.
Microdensitometry Lab, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA.
Center for Creative Media Technology, Linköping University, Sweden.
Machine Vision Group, University of Oulu, Oulu.	Texture based methods
Information sources
Bookstore for surface inspecion oriented books
Important annual meetings and conferences
VISION annual machine vision exhibition
SPCI week for paper exhibition and conferences
Machine vision hardware providers
Sony Manufacturing Systems Corporation (Desk-top robots, video microscopes, etc.)
Infradex (IR-cameras)
Metric Industrial (cameras and light sources)
Orbis (cameras)
Perel (LED lights)
Cheos (all MV equips, stripe lasers)
Parameter (all MV equips, sripe lasers)
Witte (Suction tables and other attaching devices)
Videometer (laboratory and industrial spectral measurement devices)

Documentation

Do not hesitate to to contact authors (e-mail, etc.) in order to retrieve copies or reprints of the following publications.

Articles in international scientific journals with referee practice
1. Jarkko Vartiainen, Albert Sadovnikov, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Lasse Lensu, Heikki Kälviäinen, Machine Vision and Applications, Detection of irregularities in regular patterns, (2008) pp. 249-259, No. 4 Vol. 19
Articles in international compilation works and in international scientific conference proceedings with referee practice
1. Heikki Kälviäinen, Albert Sadovnikov, Petja Salmela, Alexander Drobchenko, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Lasse Lensu, Pasi Saarinen, Jarkko Vartiainen, Proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV): Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, PAPVISION: Paper and Board Printability Tests by Machine Vision in the Paper Making and Printing Industry, (2004) pp. 61-68,
2. Alexander Drobchenko, Jarkko Vartiainen, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Lasse Lensu, Heikki Kälviäinen, Proc. of the IAPR Conf. on Machine Vision Applications, Thresholding Based Detection of Fine and Sparse Details, (2005) pp. 257-260,
3. Albert Sadovnikov, Jarkko Vartiainen, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Lasse Lensu, Heikki Kälviäinen, Proc. of the IAPR Conf. on Machine Vision Applications, Detection of Irregularities in Regular Dot Patterns, (2005) pp. 380-383,
4. Albert Sadovnikov, Petja Salmela, Lasse Lensu, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Heikki Kälviäinen, Proc. of the 14th Scandinavian Conf. of Image Analysis, Mottling Assessment of Solid Printed Areas and Its Correlation to Perceived Uniformity, (2005) pp. 411-418,
5. Albert Sadovnikov, Lasse Lensu, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Heikki Kälviäinen, Proc. of the 10th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, Quantified and Perceived Unevenness of Solid Printed Areas, (2005) pp. 710-719,
6. Jarkko Vartiainen, Lasse Lensu, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Albert Sadovnikov, Heikki Kälviäinen, Proc. of the 18th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, Detecting irregularities in regular patterns, (2006)
7. Jarkko Vartiainen, Sami Lyden, Albert Sadovnikov, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Lasse Lensu, Pekka Paalanen, Heikki Kälviäinen, Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Image Analysis and Recognition, Automating visual inspection of print quality, (2006) pp. 877-885, Vol. 2
8. Tomi Kauppi, Albert Sadovnikov, Lasse Lensu, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Pertti Silfsten, Heikki Kälviäinen, Proc. of the IAPR Conf. on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2007), Goniometric Imaging of Paper Gloss, (2007) pp. 400-403,
Scientific monographs
1. Petja Salmela, Master´s thesis, Offset-painojäljen laikkuisuuden mittaus konenäkömenetelmillä, (2003) pdf (2.19 MB)
2. Albert Sadovnikov, Master´s thesis, Automated Heliotest Inspection Using Machine Vision, (2003) pdf (1.28 MB)
3. Alexander Drobchenko, Master´s thesis, Automated Picking Assessment Using Machine Vision, (2004) pdf (1.37 MB)
4. Sami Lyden, Master´s thesis, Machine Vision Measurement System for Paper Printability Assessments, (2006)
5. Tomi Kauppi, Master´s thesis, Goniometric imaging of paper gloss, (2006)
6. Tuomas Eerola, Master´s thesis, Multilevel approach to paper printability evaluation, (2006)
7. Pekka Paalanen, Master´s thesis, Real-time Imaging and Mosaicking of Planar Surfaces, (2006) pdf (11.05 MB)
8. Jarkko Vartiainen, Ph.D thesis, Measuring irregularities and surface defects from printed patterns, (2007) pdf (7.55 MB)
9. Albert Sadovnikov, Ph.D thesis, Computational Evaluation of Print Unevenness According to Human Vision, (2010) No. 412 pdf (13.6 MB)
Other Scientific Publications
1. Albert Sadovnikov, Jarkko Vartiainen, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Lasse Lensu, Heikki Kälviäinen, Detection of irregularities in regular dot patterns, (2005) No. 93 pdf (0.47 MB)
2. Alexander Drobchenko, Jarkko Vartiainen, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Lasse Lensu, Heikki Kälviäinen, Thresholding Based Detection of Fine and Sparse Details, (2005) No. 99 pdf (1.26 MB)
3. Jarkko Vartiainen, Pekka Paalanen, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Lasse Lensu, Heikki Kälviäinen, Minimum error contrast enhancement, (2006) No. 102 pdf (1.77 MB)