Visual anomaly detection via soft computing: a prototype application at NASA.
A visual system prototype that detects anomalies or defects in real time under normal lighting operating conditions was built for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). The system prototype is basically a learning machine that integrates the three elements of soft computing, Fuzzy Logic (FL), Artificial Neural Network (ANN), and Genetic Algorithm (GA) schemes to process the image, run the learning process, and finally detect the anomalies or defects. The system acquires the image, performs segmentation...