Visual inspection techniques for rail surface defects have become prevalent approaches to obtain information on rail surface damage. However, uneven illumination leads to illegibility of local information, and the change of the wheel-rail area results in the changeful background of the rail surface, both of which pose challenges to the visual inspection. This paper proposes a novel algorithm that detects rail surface defects via partitioned edge features (PEF). PEF eliminates the effect of uneven illumination by effectively extracting edge features and building homogeneous background on the rail surface. In the process of edge feature extraction, the thresholding based on adaptive partition of rail surface (APRS) plays an indispensable role. In APRS, the rail surface is adaptively partitioned into three types of regions according to the wheel-rail contact degree. After that, the dynamic threshold is set adaptively for each region type on the basis of the prior information of defect proportion. Subsequently, based on neighborhood information and fuzzy decision, the spatial information of adjacent pixels and the direction information of fracture edges are utilized to realize the effective recovery of incomplete defect contours. In addition, defect contours are precisely filled via a flexible combination of morphological hole filling operation and defect region extraction based on improved background difference. The accuracy of this PEF algorithm was confirmed by experiments and comparisons with related algorithms. The experiment results show that PEF detects defects with 92.03% recall and 88.49% precision, which achieves higher accuracy than the established detection algorithms for rail surface defects.


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    Titel :

    Detection for Rail Surface Defects via Partitioned Edge Feature


    Beteiligte:
    Ni, Xuefeng (Autor:in) / Liu, Hongli (Autor:in) / Ma, Ziji (Autor:in) / Wang, Chao (Autor:in) / Liu, Jianwei (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    2022-06-01


    Format / Umfang :

    6590468 byte




    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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