Societe Nationale D'etude Et De Construction De Moteurs D'aviation

Societe Nationale D'etude Et De Moteurs D'aviation 'snecma'

Veronique H Prejean-Lefevre

Tilman Jochems

Herve, P Gillard

Etienne C Montel

A process for the automatic detection of defects in a complexe part comprises segmenting a radioscopic image of the part into two classes of zone in such a way as to obtain a binary images referred to as a mask, in which the assessable zones and the non-assessable zones respectively assume the values 1 and 0, and applying to the radioscopic image conditional morphological transformations formulated from a conditional formative element obtained by intersection between a conventional formative element and the mask. The process is particularly applicable to the radioscopic inspection and evaluation of blade castings.

Process for the automatic detection of defects in mechanical parts

A process for automatic detection of the assessable areas within an image of a mechanical component comprises a first phase during which different areas of at least one reference image are detected by means of manual segmentation, a second phase during which marking parameters for the areas of the reference images are defined and fixed, these marking parameters being simplifying transformations and thresholding intervals for the reference images making it possible to obtain optimal quality of separation of the areas, and a fully automatic third phase during which the area-marking parameters defined and fixed during the first two phases are used to mark the assessable areas of new images, and the exact outline of said areas is determined using the watershed line method.

Process for automatic detection of the assessable areas in images of

A method of measuring the dimensions of the optical focus of an X-ray tube is described which consists of producing an X-ray image of the optical focus on a fine-grained X-ray-sensitive film, illuminating the radiogram obtained by means of a lamp emitting homogeneous radiation and taking a video image of the radiogram by means of a video camera, processing the video image so as to obtain a digitized image of the optical focus, and measuring the dimensions of the optical focus from the digitized image obtained.

Procedure for measuring the dimensions of the optical focus of an X-ray

Quantitative characterization of a crack detection analysis method is achieved by determining the detection sensitivity and background noise produced by the analysis method by suitably processing images obtained from one or more control specimens prepared by the method and subjected to appropriate and optimized conditions of illumination. In addition, the crack detection analysis method is optimized by looking for the parameters which influence the method and determining the value thereof which maximizes detection sensitivity and minimizes background noise.

Process and apparatus for automatically characterizing, optimizing and

The present invention relates to a process for the acquisition and processing of screen images or radiographs and to an apparatus making it possible to inspect or control mechanical parts. The process consists of obtaining at least two screen images of the part to be inspected, converting said images into digital video images coded on several grey levels, correcting each image with respect to itself and then with respect to a reference image and finally binarizing the corrected images in order to superimpose them, so as to determine the image points which correspond and thus detect defects. Application to the control and inspection of mechanical parts.

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Sceaux, France

Veronique H Prejean-Lefevre