Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Wood Recognition System


Product Features
  • A PC-based wood recognition system
  • Use VSDP Library developed by CAIRO
  • Accuracy rate: 90-96%
  • Can recognize wood species in real time
  • Portable: use offline / online
  • Can be deployed on PDA
  • Internet based recognition using web service
  • First commercialize wood recognition software

Product Background
  • Currently, wood identification based on the anatomy of the wood is done by only a few certified personnel using their naked eyes
  • In order to be able to perform the job, the personnel need to undergone a very complicated training that require them to study up to 3000 species of wood in Malaysia jungle
  • Furthermore, the probability of human error or biasness in manual identification are high. Thus, there is an urgent need of a dynamic, automatic and systematic system to perform the wood recognition in high accuracy rate and in a short time

Market Size

Wood Industry: Safety issues, ensure the quality of wood-based product, timber grading (6th largest external trade of Malaysia)

Public agencies: To control illegal logging and related trade based

Research: Determining type of wood, understanding ecology and geological information of an area, study relationship between species and identifying a wood from existing object


How This Product Can Help Your Company
  • This system can be used anytime and anywhere as it is developed in web service
  • Save time, cost and human resources as it can recognize wood species in just 1 second
  • The identification of wood will be more organized and systematic
  • By having the system, authorities are able to prevent fraud in logging

Relevant Industries
Wood industry, research and authorities