Twin and scratch detection and removal in micrograph images of Inconel 718

Gerhard Jakob; Alfred Rinnhofer; Horst Bischof; Wanda Benesova

doi:10.1117/12.642635

9 February 2006 Twin and scratch detection and removal in micrograph images of Inconel 718

Gerhard Jakob, Alfred Rinnhofer, Horst Bischof, Wanda Benesova

Proceedings Volume 6070, Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection XIV; 60700L (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.642635
Event: Electronic Imaging 2006, 2006, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Grain size of forged nickel alloy is an important feature for the mechanical properties of the material. For fully automatic grain size evaluation in images of micrographs it is necessary to detect the boundaries of each grain. This grain boundary detection is influenced directly by artifacts like scratches and twins. Twins can be seen as parallel lines inside one grain, whereas a scratch can be identified as a sequence of collinear line segments that can be spread over the whole image. Both kinds of artifacts introduce artificial boundaries inside grains. To avoid wrong grain size evaluation, it is necessary to remove these artifacts prior to the size evaluation process. For the generation of boundary images various algorithms have been tested. The most stable results were achieved by grayscale reconstruction and a subsequent watershed segmentation. A modified line Hough transform with a third dimension in the Hough accumulator space, describing the distance of the parallel lines, is used to directly detect twins. Scratch detection is done by applying the standard line Hough transform followed by a rule based segment detection along the found Hough lines. The results of these operations give a detection rate of more than 90 percent for twins and more than 50 percent for scratches.

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Gerhard Jakob, Alfred Rinnhofer, Horst Bischof, and Wanda Benesova "Twin and scratch detection and removal in micrograph images of Inconel 718", Proc. SPIE 6070, Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection XIV, 60700L (9 February 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.642635

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