Tank Barrel Surface Damage Detection Algorithm

The article proposes a new algorithm for detecting damaged areas of the tank barrel based on image of the inner surface of the tank barrel. Damage position is calculated using image processing techniques such as edge detection, discrete wavelet transformation and image segmentation for accurate contour detection. The algorithm can detect surface damage in smoothbore and even in rifled tank barrel. The algorithm also calculates volume of the detected damage from the depth map generated for example from the distance measurement unit. The proposed method was tested on data obtained by tank barrel bore explorer, which generate both surface image data and depth map. The Barrel bore explorer device is also discussed in the article.