Methods of image processing for automatic grading of porosity defects in aeronautical alloy

  • Xin Wu*
  • , Bojin Qi
  • , Jianhe Zhang
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Aiming at the disadvantage of manual grading of porosity in aeronautical alloy cast currently, a method of automatic grading by image processing and pattern recognition of computer to images got by X-ray radiography was put forward, and the methods of image processing and pattern recognition were mainly studied. According to the characteristics of gray distribution in typical porosity image, an algorithm of wavelet was taken to filter the disturbance of low frequency, which can remain the information of high frequency. Then segmentation was taken to pick up the porosity region and dimension characteristics of single porosity further, and macroscopic statistics and analysis was carried out. Neural network training was adopted by standard images from first level to eighth level, and finally the automatic grading of porosity was realized. The experimental results show that the method of image processing has good adaptability.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)673-679
Number of pages7
JournalBeijing Hangkong Hangtian Daxue Xuebao/Journal of Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Volume37
Issue number6
StatePublished - Jun 2011

Keywords

  • Aluminum alloys
  • Image processing
  • Neural networks
  • Porosity
  • Radiography
  • Wavelet analysis

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