Railway Fastener Inspection by Real-Time Machine Vision

Date

2015-07-01

Author

Aytekin, Caglar
REZAEITABAR, Yousef
Dogru, Sedat
Ulusoy, İlkay

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In this paper, a real-time railway fastener detection system using a high-speed laser range finder camera is presented. First, an extensive analysis of various methods based on pixel-wise and histogram similarities are conducted on a specific railway route. Then, a fusing stage is introduced which combines least correlated approaches also considering the performance upgrade after fusing. Then, the resulting method is tested on a larger database collected from a different railway route. After observing repeated successes, the method is implemented on NI LabVIEW and run real-time with a high-speed 3-D camera placed under a railway carriage designed for railway quality inspection.

Subject Keywords

High-speed laser range finder, Railway fastener detection, Railway inspection

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38678

Journal

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN CYBERNETICS-SYSTEMS

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1109/tsmc.2014.2388435

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Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Article

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C. Aytekin, Y. REZAEITABAR, S. Dogru, and İ. Ulusoy, “Railway Fastener Inspection by Real-Time Machine Vision,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS MAN CYBERNETICS-SYSTEMS, pp. 1101–1107, 2015, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/38678.