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Solar Cell Classification using Gaussian Mixture Models  

Ko, Jin-Seok (Dept. of Electrical, Electronics & Communication Engr., Korea University of Technology and Education)
Rheem, Jae-Yeol (Dept. of Electrical, Electronics & Communication Engr., Korea University of Technology and Education)
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Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology / v.10, no.2, 2011 , pp. 1-5 More about this Journal
Abstract
In recent years, worldwide production of solar wafers increased rapidly. Therefore, the solar wafer technology in the developed countries already has become an industry, and related industries such as solar wafer manufacturing equipment have developed rapidly. In this paper we propose the color classification method of the polycrystalline solar wafer that needed in manufacturing equipment. The solar wafer produced in the manufacturing process does not have a uniform color. Therefore, the solar wafer panels made with insensitive color uniformity will fall off the aesthetics. Gaussian mixture models (GMM) are among the most statistically mature methods for clustering and we use the Gaussian mixture models for the classification of the polycrystalline solar wafers. In addition, we compare the performance of the color feature vector from various color space for color classification. Experimental results show that the feature vector from YCbCr color space has the most efficient performance and the correct classification rate is 97.4%.
Keywords
Color classification; GMM; Solar cell classification;
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