摘要：AbstractThe Canadian wood industry use sawing simulators to digitally break a log into a basket of lumbers. However, those simulators tend to be computationally intensive. In some cases, this renders them impractical as decision support tools. Such a use case is the problem of dispatching large volume of wood to several sawmills in order to maximise total yield in dollars. Fast machine learning metamodels were recently proposed to address this issue. However, the approach needs a feature extraction step which could result in a loss of information. Conversely, it was proposed to directly make use of the raw information, available in the 3D scans of the logs typically used by a recent sawmill simulator, in order to retain that information. Here, we improve upon that method by reducing the computational cost incidental with the processing of those raw scans.
