3D Tracking of Cellulose Fibres in Volume Images

Author

Axelsson, Maria

Author_Institution

Swedish Univ. of Agric. Sci., Uppsala

Volume

4

fYear

2007

fDate

Sept. 16 2007-Oct. 19 2007

Abstract

Segmentation of individual fibres in volume images is important when analysing the three dimensional (3D) fibre structure in paper and cellulose based composite materials. This paper presents a novel method for 3D tracking of individual fibres which can be used as a pre-segmentation step to a full cell wall segmentation or be used to estimate the fibre orientation. The tracking starts in one seed in each fibre and automatically extracts the local fibre orientation and the fibre centre point in each step using 3D information. Good results are obtained for cellulose fibres that are partially collapsed, cracked or irregularly shaped. The proposed method can also be used in other applications where tracking of tubular structures is of interest.

Keywords

Radon transforms; X-ray microscopy; computer vision; computerised tomography; image segmentation; 3D tracking; cellulose fibres; full cell wall segmentation; image segmentation; three dimensional fibre structure; tubular structures; Composite materials; Data mining; High-resolution imaging; Image analysis; Image resolution; Image segmentation; Optical fiber networks; Optical imaging; Optical materials; X-ray imaging; 3D tracking; Cellulose fibres; Image segmentation; Radon transform; X-ray microtomography;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Image Processing, 2007. ICIP 2007. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

San Antonio, TX

ISSN

1522-4880

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1437-6

Electronic_ISBN

1522-4880

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIP.2007.4380016

Filename

4380016