Assessment of welding defects for gas pipeline radiographs using computer vision

NDT and E International

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 291-299

  Shafeek, H I ^a   Gadelmawla, E S ^b   Abdel Shafy, A A ^b   Elewa, I M ^b  

^a HIGHER TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Egypt)

^b University of Mansoura   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Feature extraction; Radiography; Welding defects

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DEFECTS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GAS PIPELINES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAGNETIC STORAGE; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; RADIOGRAPHY; WELDING;

DEFECT DETECTION; DIGITIZED IMAGES; IMAGE CAPTURING; WELDING DEFECTS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 2442626918     PISSN: 09638695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ndteint.2003.10.003     Document Type: Article

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