CONTINUOUS CHARTING OF NON-UNIFORMITY SEVERITY FOR DETECTING VARIABILITY IN WEB-BASED MATERIALS

摘要

A computerized inspection system is described for detecting the presence of non-uniformity defects in a manufactured web material and for providing output indicative of a severity level of each defect. The system provides output that provides the severity levels of the non-uniformity defects in real-time on a continuous scale. Training software processes a plurality of training samples to generate a model, where each of the training samples need only be assigned one of a set of discrete rating labels for the non-uniformity defects. The training software generates the model to represent a continuous ranking of the training images, and the inspection system utilizes the model to compute the severity levels of the web material on a continuous scale in real-time without limiting the output to the discrete rating labels assigned to the training samples.