SEGMENTATION AND ANALYSIS METHOD FOR TWO-PHASE CERAMIC (HfB2-B4C) BASED ON THE DETECTION OF VIRTUAL BOUNDARIES

Yuexing Han; Chuanbin Lai; Bing Wang; Tianyi Hu; Dongli Hu; Hui Gu

doi:10.5566/ias.1992

Authors

Yuexing Han Shanghai University
Chuanbin Lai Shanghai University
Bing Wang Shanghai University
Tianyi Hu Shanghai University
Dongli Hu Shanghai University
Hui Gu Shanghai University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5566/ias.1992

Keywords:

boundary detection, clustering algorithm, image segmentation, two-phase microstructure, virtual boundary

Abstract

Microstructure of a material stores the genesis of the material and shows various properties of the material. To efficiently analyse the microstructure of a material, the segmentation of different phases or constituents is an important step. However, in general, due to the microstructure’s complexity, most of segmentation is manually done by human experts. It is challenging to automatically segment the material phases and the microstructure. In this work, we propose a method which combines the the dilation operator, GLCM (gray-level co-occurrence matrix), Hough transform and DBSCAN (density-based spatial clustering of applications with noise) for phases segmentation in the examples of certain material of eutectic HfB₂-B₄C ceramics. In the segmented regions, the further analysis for the microstructural elements is done with DBSCAN. The experimental results show that the proposed method achieves 95.75% segmentation accuracy for segmenting phases and 86.64% correct classification rate for the microstructure in the segmented phases. These experimental results show that our method is effective for the difficult task of the both segmentation and classification of the microstructural characteristics.

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