Abstract
The process detecting and measuring granule named granular analysis is very important in mineral analysis. Classical methods for granular analysis are based on Matheron’s sieving method. However, these methods are not adequate for mineral microscope image analysis. First, it is not an easy job to choose proper element structure for sieving process. Second, these traditional methods cannot exactly locate the position of each grain in the image. Third, the running cost of these methods on PC is too high to implement an online application. This paper proposes a granular analysis model based on improved watershed which is called varying-ladder watershed. The improved watershed overcomes the over-segment problem by adjusting the ladder height among successive steps and quickly segments the whole image into regions of different textures. Experiments show that using the proposed method gets accurate and detailed results and gains high computational performance.
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Zou, D., Hu, D., Liu, Q. (2005). Fast Granular Analysis Based on Watershed in Microscopic Mineral Images. In: Wang, L., Jin, Y. (eds) Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery. FSKD 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3614. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11540007_58
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