Objective
Colorant formulation is used extensively in the worldwide furniture industry to provide different finishes of different colours to furniture pieces: (1) pieces of furniture for home; (2) kitchen and bathroom furniture; (3) office and commercial establishments furniture. Color differences quantification and colorant formulation is currently made by semi-automated or manual method and have many drawbacks as they involve operators acting in a decisive task, such as the colorant formulation, along the production of furniture pieces. There is a lack of methods capable of quantifying colour differences of non-uniformly coloured surfaces such as wood surfaces. The major technical objectives of this project are: to develop a computer vision system capable of: Quantifying and describing the colour of non-uniformly coloured surfaces such as wood samples in furniture industry Proposing a colorant formula for achieving a target colour when it is applied over a wood sample. . The major economic and industrial objectives are: A significant cost reduction in the furniture manufacturers. Cumulative profits from the sales of the expert system to reach 6,5 million euros, 4 years after project end. Increase even more EU competitiveness against USA and Japan enterprises in the furniture industry market. . The major social and environmental objectives are: Elimination of labour intensive and monotonous inspection tasks. Reduction of the exposure of the operator to work in hazardous environments. . Elimination of operator stress and error caused by the need for great attention to detail and raw material variability. Reduction of wastes of wood panels, facilitating the sustainable development. Reduction of the amount of employed dyes, which constitutes dangerous and toxic products. .
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology materials engineering colors
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors optical sensors
- engineering and technology materials engineering synthetic dyes
- natural sciences computer and information sciences artificial intelligence expert systems
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries forestry
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Coordinator
AZPEITIA
Spain
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