Visual-based defect detection and classification approaches for industrial applications—a survey

T Czimmermann, G Ciuti, M Milazzo, M Chiurazzi… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper reviews automated visual-based defect detection approaches applicable to
various materials, such as metals, ceramics and textiles. In the first part of the paper, we …

Review of surface defect detection of steel products based on machine vision

B Tang, L Chen, W Sun, Z Lin - IET Image Processing, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Steel plays an important role in industry, and the surface defect detection for steel products
based on machine vision has been widely used during the last two decades. This paper …

Automatic fastener classification and defect detection in vision-based railway inspection systems

H Feng, Z Jiang, F Xie, P Yang, J Shi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The detection of fastener defects is an important task in railway inspection systems, and it is
frequently performed to ensure the safety of train traffic. Traditional inspection is usually …

A hierarchical extractor-based visual rail surface inspection system

J Gan, Q Li, J Wang, H Yu - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rail inspection based on visual inspection system (VIS) has drawn much attention recently,
since VIS is automatic, fast, nondestructive, and objective. However, visual rail inspection is …

A review of recent advances in surface defect detection using texture analysis techniques

X Xie - ELCVIA: electronic letters on computer vision and …, 2008 - raco.cat
In this paper, we systematically review recent advances in surface inspection using
computer vision and image processing techniques, particularly those based on texture …

A real-time visual inspection system for discrete surface defects of rail heads

Q Li, S Ren - IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Discrete surface defects impact the riding quality and safety of a railway system. However, it
is a challenge to inspect such defects in a vision system because of illumination inequality …

Multi-target defect identification for railway track line based on image processing and improved YOLOv3 model

X Wei, D Wei, D Suo, L Jia, Y Li - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The condition monitoring of railway track line is one of the essential tasks to ensure the
safety of the railway transportation system. Railway track line is mainly composed of tracks …

Automatic visual detection system of railway surface defects with curvature filter and improved Gaussian mixture model

H Zhang, X Jin, QMJ Wu, Y Wang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Rails are among the most important components of railway transportation, and real-time
defects detection of the railway is an important and challenging task because of intensity …

MRSDI-CNN: Multi-model rail surface defect inspection system based on convolutional neural networks

H Zhang, Y Song, Y Chen, H Zhong… - IEEE Transactions …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Defects on rail surfaces, which have become critical problems, need to be detected and
removed as quickly as possible to ensure the fast, safe, and stable operation of trains. At …

A review of applications of visual inspection technology based on image processing in the railway industry

S Liu, Q Wang, Y Luo - Transportation Safety and Environment, 2019 - academic.oup.com
In order to ensure the safety of railway transportation, it is necessary to regularly check for
faults and defects in the railway system. Visual inspection technology is conducive to …