Application and Prospect of Machine Vision in Cigarette Production
Tobacco is a significant contributor to the fiscal revenue of both national and local governments,and cigarettes are the predominant tobacco product.Cigarette production involves four main stages:tobacco leaf processing,cut tobacco processing,cigarette rolling,and cigarette packaging.Traditional manual or semi-automatic methods in the cigarette production process are inefficient,laborious,and error-prone.Therefore,a plethora of machine vision-based methods and applications have been developed to enhance the automation and standardization of cigarette production.In order to further understand the research of cigarette production based on machine vision,the relevant literatures at home and abroad in recent years are collated and analyzed.Firstly,the fundamental principle of machine vision and the main process flow of cigarette production are introduced.Secondly,the research and application of machine vision in cigarette production are categorized into three groups:image processing technology,traditional machine learning,and deep learning,and their advantages and challenges are discussed.Lastly,the prospects of machine vision technology in the field of cigarette production are presented.We offer a systematic overview of the application of machine vision in cigarette production,which has important implications for the intelligent production of cigarettes.