NDLI: Visual recognition of missing fastening elements for railroad maintenance

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Stella, E. Mazzeo, P. Nitti, M. Cicirelli, G. Distante, A. D'Orazio, T.
Copyright Year	2002
Description	Author affiliation: Inst. Elaborazione Segnali ed Immagini - CNR, Bari, Italy (Stella, E.; Mazzeo, P.; Nitti, M.; Cicirelli, G.; Distante, A.; D'Orazio, T.)
Abstract	Rail inspection is very important for ensuring safety and preventing dangerous situations. Track super-structure can have different types of anomalies such as defects of rail surface and sleepers, missing of fastening elements and deviations in the contour of the ballast. In this paper we present a vision-based technique for automatically detecting the absence of the fastening bolts that secure the rails to the sleepers. The inspection system uses images from a digital line scan camera installed under a train. The images are preprocessed by using several combinations of wavelet transform and principal component analysis methods. Two different types of classifiers analyse the images in order to evaluate the preprocessing technique that gives the highest rate in detecting the presence of the bolts. The final detecting system (the best combination preprocessing technique and classifier) was applied on a long sequence of real images showing a high reliability and robustness. Results in terms of the detection rate and false positive rate are given in the paper.
Starting Page	94
Ending Page	99
File Size	518252
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780373898
DOI	10.1109/ITSC.2002.1041195
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2002-09-06
Publisher Place	Singapore
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Joining processes Rails Inspection Fasteners Railway safety Electronic ballasts Digital cameras Wavelet analysis Wavelet transforms Principal component analysis
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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