Automated Extraction System of Embedded Tubes from Pulse Radar Image Based on Fuzzy Expert System

Kouki NAGAMUNE  Kazuhiko TANIGUCHI  Syoji KOBASHI  Yutaka HATA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences   Vol.E86-A   No.7   pp.1778-1789
Publication Date: 2003/07/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8508
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Systems and Control
Keyword: 
nondestructive testing,  concrete,  pulse-radar,  fuzzy logic,  

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Summary: 
This paper proposes an automated 3D visualization method of embedded tubes applicable to the scanned result of pulse-radar Non-Destructive Testing (NDT). The proposed method consists of three stages. First, our method defines the processing region which includes a pattern generated by a tube. This region is determined by referring to the composition of a received wave. Second, after expert knowledge of a tube is translated into fuzzy inference rules, the positions of embedded tubes are identified by inferring them. Third, 3D links of the identified positions are formed to visualize the continuous shape of the tubes. Consequently, the tubes are extracted, and their 3D shapes are visualized. The experimental result on the specimens shows that our method was able to find all tubes that exist in the radiograph and the schematic. Our method could thus provide the internal information of concrete with sufficient accuracy required in the practical construction work.