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Cracks Detection Using Iterative Phase Congruency

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Extracting linear (planar) structures from digital images is often needed in computed tomography (CT) applications such as cracks detection for industrial objects. The difficulties of this task lie in the fact that usually strong and very weak structures coexist in reconstructed CT images. Strong noise and artifacts make the problem even more challenging. In this paper, an efficient approach based on the concept of phase congruency (PC) is proposed for linear as well as planar structures extraction. The most innovative part of our approach is the new concept of iterative PC, which could be thought of as being the extension of the classical PC. We tested the proposed approach on a three-dimensional volume image reconstructed by our laboratory for cracks detection. Experiments show that, for cylindrical objects damaged by radial distributed cracks, our approach outperforms other popular approaches in terms of accuracy or efficiency.

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Thanks for the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (61371195). And the authors are grateful to Beijing Higher Institution Engineering Research Center of Testing and Imaging as well as Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Imaging Technology for funding this research work.

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    Xiaojuan Deng & Hongwei Li

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Deng, X., Zuo, F. & Li, H. Cracks Detection Using Iterative Phase Congruency. J Math Imaging Vis 60, 1065–1080 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10851-018-0796-y

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