On the pretreatment process for the object extraction in color image of wear debris

In this article, some pretreatment techniques used for the object extraction in color debris image were introduced, which was an important basic work in ferrographic technology to identify precisely wear debris produced by friction and wear from the relative motions between machine parts. These pretreatment techniques included image enhancement, image segmentation, filling pore, image erosion, and recognition of wear debris. The results showed that these methods were feasible and effective, which could be applied to extract object of color wear debris image successfully and precisely. It provided an important basis for the recognition technique of wear debris which was related to monitoring machine operation state and fault diagnosis. VC 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Imaging Syst Technol, 17, 277–284, 2007; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/ima.20121