A DIGITAL IMAGE ANALYSIS BASEDSURFACE POLISH MEASUREMENT SYSTEM

Abstract

Because marble and natural rocks have been used widely for ornamental purposes, rubbing-polishing process also became important. One of the factors determining the quality of natural rocks is surface polish. The degree of surface polish is determined by qualitative definitions based on experiences in the plants natural rocks are processed. In this study, a digital image analysis based surface polish measurement system which measures surface polish systematically was developed and its validity and suitability were investigated by making experiments on a natural rock sample.