Integrated Paper Services, Inc. Announces A High Precision Method For Detecting Stickies

APPLETON, Wis. - Integrated Paper Services, Inc. is pleased to announce a high-resolution, fully automatic image analysis (IA) method that can, for the first time, accurately size and categorize stickies right down to the 100-um limit set by TAPPI 277.

The full capabilities of a conventional large image analysis system are used, with the following advantages: Proprietary illumination--completely uniform and shadow-free, to allow detection of even micro-stickies lodged in among surface fibers in the black testing paper; Programmability--software is fully under our control, for easy development, changes, and updating; Resolution--calibration factor of our proprietary IA system in um/pixel is about half that of many flat-bed scanners; Detection--the IA system employs a sophisticated auto-delineation algorithm to "find" feature boundaries, largely independent of variations in lighting intensity, background color, or the chosen gray-level threshold; Hairy Stickies--advanced shape-recognition algorithms allow the IA systems to distinguish "hairy" from conventional stickies; Data Reduction--our IA system allows conventional parameters in linear dimensions to be reported for stickies.

Source: Integrated Paper Services, Inc