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SCANNING & OPTIMISATION – LUCIDYNE
LUMBER PROCESSING
Lucidyne uses deep learning to grade lumber
F
rom facial recognition to
medical diagnostics to
self-driving cars, artificial
intelligence – and specifically
the deep learning application of
AI – is becoming more prevalent
in our everyday lives. Lucidyne
Technologies, Inc., the industry
leader in technological advances,
has brought deep learning to the
lumber industry, with the first
installation in February of 2017.
Perceptive Sight™ Intelligent
Grading is available only on
Lucidyne’s GradeScan. Perceptive
Sight completely “re-thinks” the
way lumber grading is done, and
is quantum leap in the process.
Perceptive Sight learns to grade
lumber the same way a human
learns – by studying examples.
Our team of certified graders
looks at thousands of boards sent
in by our customers, defines the
characteristics on the boards,
and sends them to the Perceptive
Sight system. By evaluating this
information, Perceptive Sight
learns the attributes that define
each characteristics, and is quickly
able to differentiate between, for
example, a bark pocket and bark
encasement.
The enormous leap has the
advantages of unrivaled defect
detection and keeping your output
near perfect on-grade. And more,
when something new shows up
in your wood basket, you simply
collect some samples using
GradeScan’s QCAssist tablet, and
immediately upload the samples
to us and Perceptive Sight learns
those new attributes and we
add them to your lumber library.
No more waiting for a software
developer to analyze the defect
and write new code to integrate to
the software.
Our customers are seeing
significant recovery with
GradeScan and Perceptive Sight.
Existing GradeScan customers are
upgrading to Perceptive Sight, and
all new GradeScans are shipped
with Perceptive Sight as standard.
In some cases, customers are
reporting 100% on grade.
Only Lucidyne delivers an
automated lumber scanner that
uses deep learning artificial
intelligence to grade lumber for
maximum fiber and value recovery.
October 17-19, 2018 For full details please visit
Portland, Oregon www.timberprocessingandenergyexpo.com
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