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In the field of metallurgical industry, identifying the granularity of raw materials is an essential process during transportation. We propose an image segmentation method by the GCN (global convolutional network)-Unet to extract the contour edge of raw materials granules. To obtain legible images of raw materials, a stationary industrial high speed camera is used to photograph the operating belt conveyor from above. Then, a well-trained GCN-Unet model is used to compute the images and output the results with the contour edge of granules and tiny parts of the materials segmented. We combined the U-Net with several global convolutional network models and boundary refinement blocks and compared the prediction results of the GCN-Unet and the U-Net, showing that the GCN-Unet has a better prediction ability with fewer parameters (7,876,675, while the U-Net has 31,101,448 parameters) and a higher calculating speed (about twice faster than the U-Net). Based on the CNN (convolutional neural network), our computer version method can almost replace traditional manual sampling inspection method for the corresponding overall analysis and the automatically identification process.