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Automated inspection of engineering ceramic grinding surface damage based on image recognition

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As the engineering ceramic ground workpieces usually contain machining damage such as breaks and cracks, the traditional test methods cannot accurately reflect the real surface. Therefore, this paper describes an automatic damage detection system of the engineering ceramic machined surface using image processing techniques, pattern recognition, and machine vision. First, it has great influence on the exact identification of surface damage if engineering ceramic machined surfaces contain grinding texture, so Fourier transform is skillfully adopted to remove grinding texture. Second, through image noise reduction, contrast enhancement, and image segmentation, an optimal combination of image preprocessing is obtained. Then, by comprehensive extraction of surface feature parameters, decision tree classifier based on the C4.5 algorithm is built according to shape features and texture features. Finally, the paper achieves automatic extraction and classification of engineering ceramic grinding surface damage, and the recognition accuracy of breakage reaches over 93 %. Experimental results show that this method is effective in defect detection of the engineering ceramic surface, and it also can provide some analytical basis for the post-function hierarchy partition of engineering ceramic workpieces.

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    Shangong Chen, Bin Lin, Xuesong Han & Xiaohu Liang

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Chen, S., Lin, B., Han, X. et al. Automated inspection of engineering ceramic grinding surface damage based on image recognition. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 66, 431–443 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-012-4338-2

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