Drop swarm analysis in dispersions with incident-light and transmitted-light illumination

Flow Measurement and Instrumentation

Volumn 30, Issue , 2013, Pages 81-89

  Mickler, Matthias ^a   Boecker, Burkhard ^a   Bart, Hans Jörg ^a  

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image analysis; Multiphase flow analysis; Optical online measurement

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR DEVIATIONS; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; COMPLEX IMAGE; DISTANCE TRANSFORM ANALYSIS; DISTANCE TRANSFORMS; DROP SWARMS; EPI-ILLUMINATION; EUCLIDIAN DISTANCE; FALSE POSITIVE; FOCAL DEPTH; GAP WIDTHS; IMAGE FEATURES; LOW DENSITY; MAXIMUM PARTICLE DIAMETER; MEAN PARTICLE DIAMETER; MULTIMODES; MULTIPHASE FLOW ANALYSIS; ON-LINE MEASUREMENT; OUTER DIAMETERS; PARTICLE DENSITIES; PARTICLE DISTANCE; PRE-SEGMENTATION; PRE-SEGMENTED IMAGES; RANDOM FOREST CLASSIFIER; SINGLE PROBE; STANDARD DEVIATION; TELECENTRICITY; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

DECISION TREES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LIGHT; MULTIPHASE FLOW; PARTICLE SIZE; PIXELS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROBES;

LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

EID: 84874522108     PISSN: 09555986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.flowmeasinst.2013.01.004     Document Type: Article

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