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http://dx.doi.org/10.5370/JEET.2016.11.4.1035

A Robust Crack Filter Based on Local Gray Level Variation and Multiscale Analysis for Automatic Crack Detection in X-ray Images  

Peng, Shao-Hu (School of Mechanical and Electric Engineering, Guangzhou University)
Nam, Hyun-Do (Department of electronics and electrical eng., Dankook University)
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Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology / v.11, no.4, 2016 , pp. 1035-1041 More about this Journal
Abstract
Internal cracks in products are invisible and can lead to fatal crashes or damage. Since X-rays can penetrate materials and be attenuated according to the material’s thickness and density, they have rapidly become the accepted technology for non-destructive inspection of internal cracks. This paper presents a robust crack filter based on local gray level variation and multiscale analysis for automatic detection of cracks in X-ray images. The proposed filter takes advantage of the image gray level and its local variations to detect cracks in the X-ray image. To overcome the problems of image noise and the non-uniform intensity of the X-ray image, a new method of estimating the local gray level variation is proposed in this paper. In order to detect various sizes of crack, this paper proposes using different neighboring distances to construct an image pyramid for multiscale analysis. By use of local gray level variation and multiscale analysis, the proposed crack filter is able to detect cracks of various sizes in X-ray images while contending with the problems of noise and non-uniform intensity. Experimental results show that the proposed crack filter outperforms the Gaussian model based crack filter and the LBP model based method in terms of detection accuracy, false detection ratio and processing speed.
Keywords
Crack filter; Crack detection; X-ray image; Multiscale analysis; Gray level variation;
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