Abstract
In this paper, we evaluate the effect of scale analysis as well as the filtering process on the performances of an original compressed-domain classifier in the field of material surface topographies classification. Each surface profile is multiscale analyzed by using a Gaussian Filter analyzing method to be decomposed into three multiscale filtered image types: Low-pass (LP), Band-pass (BP), and High-pass (HP) filtered versions, respectively. The complete set of filtered image data constitutes the collected database. First, the images are lossless compressed using the state-of-the art High-efficiency video coding (HEVC) video coding standard. Then, the Intra-Prediction Modes Histogram (IPHM) feature descriptor is computed directly in the compressed domain from each HEVC compressed image. Finally, we apply the IPHM feature descriptors as an input of a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. SVM is introduced here to strengthen the performances of the proposed classification system thanks to the powerful properties of machine learning tools. We evaluate the proposed solution we called “HEVC Multiscale Decomposition” (HEVC-MD) on a huge database of nearly 42,000 multiscale topographic images. A simple preliminary version of the algorithm reaches an accuracy of 52%. We increase this accuracy to 70% by using the multiscale analysis of the high-frequency range HP filtered image data sets. Finally, we verify that considering only the highest-scale analysis of low-frequency range LP was more appropriate for classifying our six surface topographies with an accuracy of up to 81%. To compare these new topographical descriptors to those conventionally used, SVM is applied on a set of 34 roughness parameters defined on the International Standard GPS ISO 25178 (Geometrical Product Specification), and one obtains accuracies of 38%, 52%, 65%, and 57% respectively for Sa, multiscale Sa, 34 roughness parameters, and multiscale ones. Compared to conventional roughness descriptors, the HEVC-MD descriptors increase surfaces discrimination from 65% to 81%.
Highlights
Topographic characterization of rough surfaces plays a major role in the field of surface science.It covers various fields such as tribology, corrosion, electrical or thermal contact, biocompatibility, adhesion, gloss, etc
The classification method used in this paper is a well-known deep learning tools called the Support Vector Machine (SVM), which is close to the discriminant analysis that we have proven to be relevant to discriminate topographical maps
In order to strengthen the classification process, we propose to combine the Intra-Prediction Modes Histogram (IPMH) solution described in the previous section with the nonlinear SVM model
Summary
Topographic characterization of rough surfaces plays a major role in the field of surface science. It covers various fields such as tribology, corrosion, electrical or thermal contact, biocompatibility, adhesion, gloss, etc. There are two categories of topographical surface analyses: the first one consists in understanding the mechanism of surface creation that can be voluntary (tooling, surface finishing, etc.) or fortuitous (wear, corrosion, etc.). The second one consists in understanding how surface roughness influences the surface functionality to optimize the surface topography by appropriate surface texturing. The surface profile represents the roughness, the primary form, and the waviness with three different frequency scales. Whatever the recording systems (laser scanning microscopy, interferometry and confocal microscopy, Atomic force microscopy, 3D profilometer, etc.), a discretized map is obtained and can be seen as a grayscale image encoded on 32 bits (float), representing the height of roughness amplitude
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