Edge Detection of Composite Insulators Hydrophobic Image Based on Improved Canny Operator

Kang Yan, Fochi Wang, Zhongyuan Zhang, Ningcai Li, Fangcheng Lv

Hebei Provincial Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment Security Defense, North China Electric Power University, Baoding, China.

DOI: 10.4236/epe.2013.54B114                

Abstract

The detection of hydrophobicity is an important way to evaluate the performance of composite insulators, which is helpful to the safe operation of composite insulators. Image processing technology is used to judge the hydrophobicity of composite insulators, which makes detection results more accurate and overcomes the subjective drawbacks of traditional detection methods. As the traditional Canny operator requires manual intervention in selecting the variance of the Gaussian filter and the threshold, the paper presents a method of edge detection based on improved Canny operator. First, the adaptive median filter replaces the Gaussian filter, which can eliminate the impact from the variance of Gaussian filter and remove noise according to the characteristics of the image itself. Then the Ostu threshold method is used to select the best threshold automatically, which makes the edge detection be more continuous and reduce the presence of fake edges. The results show that the operator is applicable to all hydrophobic images.

Keywords

Composite Insulators; Hydrophobicity; Canny Operator; Edge Detection; Adaptive Median Filter; Ostu Threshold Method

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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