A novel coal-rock recognition method in coal mining face based on fusing laser point cloud and images

Rapid and accurate recognition of coal and rock is an important prerequisite for safe and efficient coal mining. In this paper, a novel coal-rock recognition method is proposed based on fusing laser point cloud and images, named Multi-Modal Frustum PointNet (MMFP). Firstly, MobileNetV3 is used as th...

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Main Authors: Yang Liu, Lei Si, Zhongbin Wang, Miao Chen, Xin Li, Dong Wei, Jinheng Gu
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Published: Elsevier 2025-07-01
Series:International Journal of Mining Science and Technology
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author Yang Liu
Lei Si
Zhongbin Wang
Miao Chen
Xin Li
Dong Wei
Jinheng Gu
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Lei Si
Zhongbin Wang
Miao Chen
Xin Li
Dong Wei
Jinheng Gu
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description Rapid and accurate recognition of coal and rock is an important prerequisite for safe and efficient coal mining. In this paper, a novel coal-rock recognition method is proposed based on fusing laser point cloud and images, named Multi-Modal Frustum PointNet (MMFP). Firstly, MobileNetV3 is used as the backbone network of Mask R-CNN to reduce the network parameters and compress the model volume. The dilated convolutional block attention mechanism (Dilated CBAM) and inception structure are combined with MobileNetV3 to further enhance the detection accuracy. Subsequently, the 2D target candidate box is calculated through the improved Mask R-CNN, and the frustum point cloud in the 2D target candidate box is extracted to reduce the calculation scale and spatial search range. Then, the self-attention PointNet is constructed to segment the fused point cloud within the frustum range, and the bounding box regression network is used to predict the bounding box parameters. Finally, an experimental platform of shearer coal wall cutting is established, and multiple comparative experiments are conducted. Experimental results indicate that the proposed coal-rock recognition method is superior to other advanced models.
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spelling doaj-art-33d33ea46a814660a071f560170209672025-08-22T04:56:07ZengElsevierInternational Journal of Mining Science and Technology2095-26862025-07-013571057107110.1016/j.ijmst.2025.05.009A novel coal-rock recognition method in coal mining face based on fusing laser point cloud and imagesYang Liu0Lei Si1Zhongbin Wang2Miao Chen3Xin Li4Dong Wei5Jinheng Gu6School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, ChinaSchool of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Mining Equipment Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; Corresponding author.School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Mining Equipment Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, ChinaSchool of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, ChinaSchool of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Mining Equipment Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, ChinaSchool of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Mining Equipment Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, ChinaSchool of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China; State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Mining Equipment Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, ChinaRapid and accurate recognition of coal and rock is an important prerequisite for safe and efficient coal mining. In this paper, a novel coal-rock recognition method is proposed based on fusing laser point cloud and images, named Multi-Modal Frustum PointNet (MMFP). Firstly, MobileNetV3 is used as the backbone network of Mask R-CNN to reduce the network parameters and compress the model volume. The dilated convolutional block attention mechanism (Dilated CBAM) and inception structure are combined with MobileNetV3 to further enhance the detection accuracy. Subsequently, the 2D target candidate box is calculated through the improved Mask R-CNN, and the frustum point cloud in the 2D target candidate box is extracted to reduce the calculation scale and spatial search range. Then, the self-attention PointNet is constructed to segment the fused point cloud within the frustum range, and the bounding box regression network is used to predict the bounding box parameters. Finally, an experimental platform of shearer coal wall cutting is established, and multiple comparative experiments are conducted. Experimental results indicate that the proposed coal-rock recognition method is superior to other advanced models.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095268625000928Coal mining faceCoal-rock recognitionDeep learningLaser point cloud and images fusionMulti-Modal Frustum PointNet (MMFP)
spellingShingle Yang Liu
Lei Si
Zhongbin Wang
Miao Chen
Xin Li
Dong Wei
Jinheng Gu
A novel coal-rock recognition method in coal mining face based on fusing laser point cloud and images
International Journal of Mining Science and Technology
Coal mining face
Coal-rock recognition
Deep learning
Laser point cloud and images fusion
Multi-Modal Frustum PointNet (MMFP)
title A novel coal-rock recognition method in coal mining face based on fusing laser point cloud and images
title_full A novel coal-rock recognition method in coal mining face based on fusing laser point cloud and images
title_fullStr A novel coal-rock recognition method in coal mining face based on fusing laser point cloud and images
title_full_unstemmed A novel coal-rock recognition method in coal mining face based on fusing laser point cloud and images
title_short A novel coal-rock recognition method in coal mining face based on fusing laser point cloud and images
title_sort novel coal rock recognition method in coal mining face based on fusing laser point cloud and images
topic Coal mining face
Coal-rock recognition
Deep learning
Laser point cloud and images fusion
Multi-Modal Frustum PointNet (MMFP)
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095268625000928
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