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IMAGE PROCESSING, PATTERN RECOGNITION

A machine vision system for inspection of railway track

N. N. Vasin, R. R. Diyazitdinov

Povolzhskiy State University of Telecommunications and Informatics, Samara, Russia

Abstract: We propose a machine vision system for the inspection of the railway track condition. Key stages of an algorithm for detecting gauge marks that serve to identify mechanical stresses of a continuous welded rail track are described. In the final section of the article, we discuss some peculiarities found in real exploitation conditions: effects of the rail surface defects on the algorithm performance and false detection of railway infrastructure elements similar to gauge marks.

Keywords: machine vision, image processing, video-camera, railway infrastructure, gauge mark.

Received: 12.12.2015
Accepted: 10.06.2016

DOI: 10.18287/2412-6179-2016-40-3-410-415