Deep-Learning-Based Automatic Mineral Grain Segmentation and Recognition

Minerals

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Julien Maitre¹  Ghazanfar Latif¹  Kévin Bouchard¹  Léo Paul Bédard²  Arnaud Back² 

[1] Department of Computer Sciences and Mathematics, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 555 Boulevard de l’Université, Chicoutimi, QC G7H 2B1, Canada;

[2] LabMaTer, Sciences de la Terre, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 555 Boulevard de l’Université, Chicoutimi, QC G7H 2B1, Canada;

关键词: grain segmentation;    deep learning;    convolutional neural networks;    ResNet;    mineral recognition;   

DOI  :  10.3390/min12040455

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

A multitude of applications in engineering, ore processing, mineral exploration, and environmental science require grain recognition and the counting of minerals. Typically, this task is performed manually with the drawback of monopolizing both time and resources. Moreover, it requires highly trained personnel with a wealth of knowledge and equipment, such as scanning electron microscopes and optical microscopes. Advances in machine learning and deep learning make it possible to envision the automation of many complex tasks in various fields of science at an accuracy equal to human performance, thereby, avoiding placing human resources into tedious and repetitive tasks, improving time efficiency, and lowering costs. Here, we develop deep-learning algorithms to automate the recognition of minerals directly from the grains captured from optical microscopes. Building upon our previous work and applying state-of-the-art technology, we modify a superpixel segmentation method to prepare data for the deep-learning algorithms. We compare two residual network architectures (ResNet 1 and ResNet 2) for the classification and identification processes. We achieve a validation accuracy of 90.5% using the ResNet 2 architecture with 47 layers. Our approach produces an effective application of deep learning to automate mineral recognition and counting from grains while also achieving a better recognition rate than reported thus far in the literature for this process and other well-known, deep-learning-based models, including AlexNet, GoogleNet, and LeNet.

【 授权许可】

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