@inproceedings{bfa113b5bd324798a633267793a4e007,
title = "Particle detection of porous media using scanning electron microscope images",
abstract = "Porous media have a wide range of applications in the field of material science and geology. The achievement of the shape parameters of a porous medium gives great significance to the reconstruction of the medium and the calculation of physical parameters such as porosity and permeability. A kind of particular porous media are focused on in the paper which are composed of randomly packed spheres made of glass. A modified Hough transform method using scanning electron microscope (SEM) images is proposed to detect the particles that compose the medium. The raw gray level image is preprocessed using a Gaussian filter. Then a modified vote mechanism is applied to transform the edge points obtained by gradient map into the accumulation array of the center locations. After a non-maximum suppression, final circle centers are picked up and their radii are estimated. The method is conducted on several SEM images, indicating the method can achieve a remarkable accuracy of ∼75%.",
keywords = "Hough transform, Particle detection, Porous media, SEM image",
author = "Mengyin Fu and Meifeng Xiao and Meiling Wang and Siyuan Cheng and Xiang Li",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 SPIE.; 8th International Conference on Digital Image Processing, ICDIP 2016 ; Conference date: 20-05-2016 Through 23-05-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1117/12.2243740",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Xudong Jiang and Falco, {Charles M.}",
booktitle = "Eighth International Conference on Digital Image Processing, ICDIP 2016",
address = "United States",
}