Adhesive Abrasive Detection for Diamond Images based on Improved Watershed Algorithm

Abstract

Abstract Diamond images have characteristics of adhesive abrasives besides much background noise, irregular abrasive shapes and different abrasive size, which brings big challenges to accurate diamond abrasive detection. Therefore, an improved watershed algorithm is put forward to detect adhesive abrasive in this work. Firstly, the diamond abrasive image is filtered by Gaussian to suppress the background noise, and then the pre-processed diamond abrasive image is reconstructed by morphology. Through the distance transform of the reconstructed image, marking features for subsequent abrasive detection can be obtained. Finally, the watershed algorithm and extended-minima transform are used to finely detect diamond abrasives and separate adhesive abrasives, respectively, so as to realize the accurate detection of adhesive diamond abrasive image. According to the results of detection experiments, the proposed method based on improved watershed algorithm and extended-minima transform can accurately detect adhesive diamond abrasive images, the recall rate of abrasive is 94.8%, which indicates good recognition accuracy and robustness of the proposed method. The accurate detection results can be further used for subsequent image analysis and abrasive feature parameter extraction.