Formulation of Pattern Recognition Framework - Analysis and Detection of Tyre Cracks Utilizing Integrated Texture Features and Ensemble Learning Methods

• Published in: Advances in electrical and electronic engineering Vol. 21; no. 2; p. 127
• Main Authors: Vijayalakshmi Gopasandra Venkateshappa Mahesh, Raj, Alex Noel Joseph
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Ostrava Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science VSB - Technical University of Ostrava 01.06.2023
• Subjects: Algorithms; Damage detection; Ensemble learning; Flaw detection; Image acquisition; Machine learning; Pattern analysis; Pattern recognition; Surface properties; Texture recognition; Tires
• ISSN: 1336-1376; 1804-3119
• DOI: 10.15598/aeee.v21i2.4948

For a safe drive with a vehicle and better tyre life, it is important to regularly monitor the tyre damages to diagnose its condition and chose appropriate solution. This paper proposes a framework based on pattern recognition utilizing the strength of texture attributes and ensemble learning to detect the damages on the tyre surfaces. In this paper, a concatenation of the statistical and edge response based texture features derived from Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix and Local directional pattern are proposed to describe and represent the tyre surface characteristics and their variations due to any damages. The derived features are provided to train machine learning algorithms using ensemble learning methods for a better understanding to discriminate the tyre surfaces into normal or damaged. The experiments of tyre surface classification were conducted on the tyre surface images acquired from Kaggle tyre dataset. The results demonstrated the ability of the combined texture features and ensemble learning methods in effectively analysing the tyre surfaces and discriminate them with better performance provided by adaboost and histogram gradient boosting methods.