Detection of line weld defects based on multiple thresholds and support vector machine

NDT and E International

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 517-524

  Wang, Yan ^a   Sun, Yi ^a   Lv, Peng ^a   Wang, Hao ^a  

^a DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Hough transform; Support vector machine (SVM); Weld defect detection; X ray image

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; LEARNING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES; VECTORS; WELDING; WELDS; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY APPARATUS; X RAYS;

ELSEVIER (CO); EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; LINE DEFECTS; LOW CONTRAST; NOISY PIXELS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVM) TECHNIQUE; WELD DEFECTS; X RAY IMAGES;

DEFECTS;

EID: 48149094737     PISSN: 09638695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ndteint.2008.05.004     Document Type: Article

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