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Journal of Sensor Technology, 2013, 3, 110-114 Published Online December 2013 (/journal/jst) /10.4236/jst.2013.34017 Automated Visual Inspection System for Specifying Brick Quality Ali F. Marhoon, Ayman N. Salman Younis , Farooq T. Taha * Iraq University College, Basra, Iraq Email: a.n.younis@ * Received June 15, 2013; revised July 15, 2013; accepted July 22, 2013 Copyright ? 2013 Ali F. Marhoon et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. ABSTRACT Automated visual inspection system has been developed to specify brick quality and the accepting of the bricks in a production line. This system is based on CMOS web-camera placed in manufacture line. Depending on diameters, area, perimeter and cracks of a brick, a strong algorithm has been developed, and this algorithm is created to befit the re- quired for measuring bricks quality. The quality is measured by fuzzy system which can give percent accepting to a brick under the test. Fuzzy reasoning gives the system more reliability than other inspection system. Keywords: Brick Quality Requirements; Automated Visual Inspection; Fuzzy Reasoning 1. Introduction Wen Sun developed a system for improving quality in- spection of food [5]. Grading and sorting bricks ensure that the bricks meet defined grade and quality requirements for sellers and provide expected quality for buyers. Usually, trained human inspectors who assess the brick by seeing the brick for a particular quality attribute perform quality sorting. However, there are some disadvantages to apply human inspectors such as inconsistency, extensive time to inspect huge volumes and expensive labor costs. Com- puter vision may improve inspection results and take over the visually intensive inspection work from