• International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
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• 제4권6호
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• pp.44-49
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• 2003

The morphological analysis of wear debris can provide early a failure diagnosis in lubricated moving system. It can be effective to analyze operating conditions of oil-lubricated tribological system with shape characteristics of wear debris in a lubricant. But, in order to predict and recognize an operating condition of lubricated machine, it is needed to analyze and to identify shape characteristics of wear debris. Therefore, If the morphological characteristics of wear debris are recognized by computer image analysis using the neural network algorithm, it is possible to recognize operating condition of hydraulic driving members. In this study, wear debris in the lubricating oil are extracted by membrane filter (0.45$\mu\textrm{m}$), and the quantitative values of shape parameters of wear debris are calculated by the digital image processing. This shape parameters are studied and identified by the artificial neural network algorithm. The result of study could be applied to prediction and to recognition of the operating condition of hydraulic driving members in lubricated machine systems.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.168-174
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• 2017

Videos recorded on surveillance cameras or by car black boxes at night have distorted images due to illumination variation. Therefore, it is difficult to analyze morphological characteristics of objects, and it is limiting to use such distorted images as evidence in traffic accidents. Image restoration is performed by amplifying the brightness of nighttime images using linearized gamma correction to increase their contrast (which destroys visual information) and by minimizing degradation factors caused by irregular traveling.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.227-233
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• 2017

Purpose: Morphological properties of soybean roots are important indicators of the vigor of the seed, which determines the survival rate of the seedlings grown. The current vigor test for soybean seeds is manual measurement with the human eye. This study describes an application of a machine vision technique for rapid measurement of soybean seed vigor to replace the time-consuming and labor-intensive conventional method. Methods: A CCD camera was used to obtain color images of seeds during germination. Image processing techniques were used to obtain root segmentation. The various morphological parameters, such as primary root length, total root length, total surface area, average diameter, and branching points of roots were calculated from a root skeleton image using a customized pixel-based image processing algorithm. Results: The measurement accuracy of the machine vision system ranged from 92.6% to 98.8%, with accuracies of 96.2% for primary root length and 96.4% for total root length, compared to manual measurement. The correlation coefficient for each measurement was 0.999 with a standard error of prediction of 1.16 mm for primary root length and 0.97 mm for total root length. Conclusions: The developed machine vision system showed good performance for the morphological measurement of soybean roots. This image analysis algorithm, combined with a simple color camera, can be used as an alternative to the conventional seed vigor test method.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

Rice plant numbers and density are key factors for yield and quality of rice grains. Precise and properly estimated rice plant numbers and density can assure high yield from rice fields. The main objective of this study was to automatically detect and count rice plants using images of usual field condition from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). We proposed an automatic image processing method based on morphological operation and boundaries of the connected component to count rice plant numbers after transplanting. We converted RGB images to binary images and applied adaptive median filter to remove distortion and noises. Then we applied a morphological operation to the binary image and draw boundaries to the connected component to count rice plants using those images. The result reveals the algorithm can conduct a performance of 89% by the F-measure, corresponding to a Precision of 87% and a Recall of 91%. The best fit image gives a performance of 93% by the F-measure, corresponding to a Precision of 91% and a Recall of 96%. Comparison between the numbers of rice plants detected and counted by the naked eye and the numbers of rice plants found by the proposed method provided viable and acceptable results. The $R^2$ value was approximately 0.893.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.49-54
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• 2014

This paper proposes a new color segmentation method of vehicle license plates in the RGB color space. Firstly, the proposed method shifts the histogram of an input image rightwards and then stretches the image of the histogram slide. Secondly, the method separates each of the three RGB color components and performs the adaptive threshold processing with the three components, respectively. Finally, it combines the three components under the condition of making up a segment color and removes noises with the morphological processing. The proposed method is implemented using C language in an embedded Linux system for a high-speed real-time image processing. Experiments were conducted by using real vehicle images. The results show that the proposed algorithm is successful for most vehicle images. However, the method fails in some vehicles when the body and the license plate have the same color.

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제48권4호
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• pp.469-478
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• 2012

To manage, sort, and grade fishery resources, it is necessary to measure their morphometric characteristics. This labor-intensive task involves performing repetitive operations on land and on a research vessel. To reduce the amount of labor required, a vision-based automatic measurement system (VAMS) for the measurement of morphometric characteristics of flatfish, such as total length (TL), body width (BW), and body height (BH), has been developed as part of a database management system for fishery resources management. This system can also measure the mass (M) of flatfish. In the present study, we describe a morphological image processing algorithm for the measurement of certain characteristics of flatfish. This algorithm, which involves preprocessing, edge pattern matching, and edge point detection, is effective in cases where the flatfish being measured has a deformed tail and is randomly oriented. The satisfactory performance of the proposed algorithm is also demonstrated by means of experiments involving the measurement of the BW, TL and BH of a flatfish when it is straightened (BW : 117mm, TL : 329mm, BH : 24.5mm), when its tail is deformed, and when it is randomly oriented.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.81-86
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• 1993

It is well known that the interest on the on-line sensing of tool wear is growing more and more with the aim of controlling machine tools productivity from the point of view of quality. This paper describes the sensing of the amount of flank wear with vision system. To obtain a proper image He-Ne laser generator is used as the lighting source and obtained image is processed with block processing algorithm and morphological image processing method. By means of this system it is possible to evaluate the parameters of tool wear. Experimental tests performed with this system on an NC lathe have shown good performances here described and discussed.

• 융합신호처리학회 학술대회논문집
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• 한국신호처리시스템학회 2000년도 추계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.109-112
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• 2000

고역의 주파수 성분이 감쇠되어 선명도가 저하된 이미지나 선형 보간법에 의해 확대된 이미지의 계단모양 왜곡을 감소시킴으로써 경계선의 선명도가 저하된 이미지들을 위해 형태학적 처리(morphological processing)에 의한 이미지 윤곽선의 선명도를 향상시키는 방법을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서는 블러링(blurring)된 이미지를 화소의 명암에 따라 다수개의 평판 이미지(slice image)로 나누고 각 평판 이미지에 대해 반복적인 최대/최소값 필터(min/max filter)의 적용으로 얻어진 윤곽선의 중심을 기준으로 하여 팽창(dilation)과 침식(erosion)을 수행함으로 이미지의 윤곽선에서의 명암 변화에 대한 경사도를 크게 만들고 이로써 이미지 윤곽선의 선명도를 향상시키는 방법을 사용하였으며 모의 시험결과를 통하여 고역 주파수 강조에 의한 방법에 비하여 인위적인 잡음(artifact)없이 효과적으로 선명도를 향상시킬 수 있음을 보였다.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.59-63
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• 2010

This paper proposes computer visual inspection algorithms for various LCD defects which are found in a manufacturing process. Modular vision processing steps are required in order to detect different types of LCD defects. Those key modules include RGB filtering for pixel defects, gray-scale morphological processing and Hough transform for line defects, and adaptive threshold for spot defects. The proposed algorithms can give users detailed information on the type of defects in the LCD panel, the size of defect, and its location. The machine vision inspection system is implemented using C language in an embedded Linux system for a high-speed real-time image processing. Experiment results show that the proposed algorithms are quite successful.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.212-224
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 영상 응용프로그램의 처리 속도를 향상하기 위한 병렬처리 시스템을 제안한다. 병렬처리 시스템은 Pipelined SIMD 구조를 갖고 있으며, 다수개의 처리기와 다중접근 기억장치로 구성된다. 다중접근 기억장치는 메모리 모듈들과 메모리 제어부로 구성되며, 메모리 제어부는 메모리 모듈 선택 모듈, 데이터 라우팅 모듈, 그리고 주소 계산 및 라우팅 모듈로 구성되어 있으며, 블록, 행, 그리고 열 내의 데이터를 동시에 접근할 수 있는 기능을 제공한다. 제안한 병렬처리 시스템을 검증하기 위해서 형태학적 필터를 적용하여 기능 검증 및 처리속도를 확인하였다.