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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2016

Gap Measurement of Point Machine Using Adaptive Wavelet Threshold and Mathematical Morphology.

Tianhua Xu, Guang Wang, Haifeng Wang, Tangming Yuan, Zhiwang Zhong

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Tianhua XuState Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China. thxu@bjtu.edu.cn.
Guang WangState Key Laboratory of Rail Traffic Control and Safety, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China. guangwang@bjtu.edu.cn.
Haifeng WangNational Engineering Research Center of Rail Transportation Operation and Control System, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China. hfwang@bjtu.edu.cn.
Tangming YuanDepartment of Computer Science, University of York, York YO10 5GH, UK. tommy.yuan@york.ac.uk.
Zhiwang ZhongSchool of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China. 12111056@bjtu.edu.cn.
Beijing Jiaotong University · CNUniversity of York · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A point machine's gap is an important indication of its healthy status. An edge detection algorithm is proposed to measure and calculate a point machine's gap from the gap image captured by CCD plane arrays. This algorithm integrates adaptive wavelet-based image denoising, locally adaptive image binarization, and mathematical morphology technologies. The adaptive wavelet-based image denoising obtains not only an optimal denoising threshold, but also unblurred edges. Locally adaptive image binarization has the advantage of overcoming the local intensity variation in gap images. Mathematical morphology may suppress speckle spots caused by reflective metal surfaces in point machines. The subjective and objective evaluations of the proposed method are presented by using point machine gap images from a railway corporation in China. The performance between the proposed method and conventional edge detection methods has also been compared, and the result shows that the former outperforms the latter.

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edge detectionimage binarizationmathematical morphologywavelet-based image denoising

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PMID27898042
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