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Froth image clustering with feature semi-supervision through selection and label information

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Accurate classification and recognition of coal flotation froth is one of the key technologies for intelligent coal separation. At present, the coal flotation process relies on artificial recognition of froth features for adjusting the reagent dosage, which cannot realize the optimal control of the quality of the clean coal product and the cost of the reagents. Therefore, in this paper, it is proposed a method of froth image clustering with feature semi-supervision through selection and label information. It is mainly divided into two stages: offline clustering and online recognition. The offline stage is to preprocess the froth image under various reagent conditions, extract the morphology, colour and texture features, and select the multi-dimensional optimal froth image features. A small number of marked samples are introduced to optimize the Gaussian mixture model. The selected optimal features are integrated into the optimized Gaussian mixture model to construct a froth image clusterer with multi-dimensional optimal features and class labels. In the online stage, the real-time froth image features are input clusterer and compared with the cluster feature samples to identify the current reagents conditions, which is used as feedback information to guide the abnormal reagent conditions during the production process. The effect of the amount of supervision information and the quality of feature on clustering results is analyzed and compared through experiments. The application results show that this method can provide key technical support for the accurate control of the dosage of reagents and the quality of clean coal product in the coal flotation production process, reduce the cost of reagents and the number of production accidents, improve the economic benefits, and promote the development of coal flotation intelligence to a higher level.

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This work is supported in part by the Youth Fund of the Science and Technology Plan Research Project of Shanxi Province, China, under Grant 201801D221358.

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    Wenyan Cao, Ranfeng Wang, Minqiang Fan, Xiang Fu, Yulong Wang, Zhongtian Guo & Fubo Fan

  2. Information Professional Committee of the Coal Industry Committee of Technology, Beijing, 100013, China

    Ranfeng Wang

  3. Shanxi Information Technology Association, Taiyuan, 030032, China

    Ranfeng Wang

  4. Shanxi Institute of Coal Processing and Utilization, Taiyuan, 030053, China

    Minqiang Fan

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Cao, W., Wang, R., Fan, M. et al. Froth image clustering with feature semi-supervision through selection and label information. Int. J. Mach. Learn. & Cyber. 12, 2499–2516 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13042-021-01333-5

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