Proceedings of the First International Conference on Information Science and Electronic Technology

Detecting Pit Defects on Rail Surface Using A Fast Detection Algorithm Based on Relative Gray Value

Authors
Wendi Weng, Houjin Chen
Corresponding Author
Wendi Weng
Available Online March 2015.
DOI
10.2991/iset-15.2015.19How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Defect on rail surface, Linear mean filtering, Relative gray value, Fast algorithm
Abstract

It is a challenge to detect pit defects on rail surface quickly and accurately in machine vision system. As the pit defects appear randomly, vary in size, distribute discontinuously, and are affected by rust, white noise, shadow and illumination during imaging, pit defects detection has become a difficulty in machine vision field. In this paper, we present a fast detection algorithm based on relative gray value to achieve the requirement of detecting defects on rail surface quickly and accurately. This algorithm uses 1×N dimensional linear mean filtering to improve the detection efficiency. The influence from rust, white noise and environmental impacts are excluded with a set of preprocessing, including offset, contrast of gray values, and image enhancement. Detection accuracy is further improved with Otsu’s binary segmentation method. Experimental results show that this algorithm can detect defects on rail surface quickly and accurately.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Information Science and Electronic Technology
Series
Advances in Computer Science Research
Publication Date
March 2015
ISBN
10.2991/iset-15.2015.19
ISSN
2352-538X
DOI
10.2991/iset-15.2015.19How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2015, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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