Fault inspection plays an important role in ensuring the safe operation of freight trains. With the development of computer vision technology, the vision-based fault inspection has become one of the principal means of fault inspection. A coupler yoke is an important component of the train's connection system, and faults in this system would cause the separation of the train, leading to a serious accident. We propose an automatic image inspection system to inspect for faults in coupler yokes during the running of a freight train. The inspection process is divided into two parts: the localization part and the recognition part. In the localization part, we propose multiple dimension features, design a fast algorithm to compute multiresolution image features, and use a linear support vector machine classifier to locate the position of the coupler yoke. In the recognition part, we propose a fast decision tree training method by prepruning noneffective features, and use Adaboost decision trees as the final fault classifier. Experimental results show that this proposed method can achieve a fault inspection rate of 98.6% while the average processing time of an image is about 98 ms, which shows our system has a high inspection accuracy and a good real-time performance. © The Authors.
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Zheng, C., & Wei, Z. (2016). Automatic online vision-based inspection system of coupler yoke for freight trains. Journal of Electronic Imaging, 25(6), 061602. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.jei.25.6.061602
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