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Automatic Detection of Slag Eye Area Based on a Hue-Saturation-Value Image Segmentation Algorithm

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Inert gas bubbling is widely applied in the ladle refining of molten steel to ensure homogeneity and to promote chemical reactions between the slag and the metal phases. Monitoring the slag behavior is important for controlling the steel quality. In the present study, an image segmentation algorithm based on the hue-saturation-value color space has been proposed to realize the automatic detection and calculation of the slag eye area. Laboratory experiments show that the developed method was stable and yielded accurate results, which could be applied to automatic industrial image detection. In addition, the proposed methodology is promising in other fields, such as the evaluation of particle diameter for the identification of aggregate size, detection of material cracks, and measurement of the lining thickness of a furnace.

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Acknowledgements

This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China [Grant Nos. 51974211, 12072245, and 51834002] and the Special Project of Central Government for Local Science and Technology Development of Hubei Province [Grant Nos. 2019ZYYD003, 2019ZYYD076].

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  1. The State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430081, Hubei, China

    Guanzheng Wang, Fangguan Tan, Zhu He & Yawei Li

  2. National-Provincial Joint Engineering Research Center of High Temperature Materials and Lining Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430081, Hubei, China

    Guanzheng Wang, Fangguan Tan, Zhu He & Yawei Li

  3. Chair of Ceramics, Montanuniversitaet Leoben, 8700, Leoben, Austria

    Shengli Jin

  4. The Key Laboratory of Chemical Metallurgy Engineering of Liaoning Province and School of Materials and Metallurgy, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, 114051, Liaoning, China

    Jing Li

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Wang, G., Tan, F., Jin, S. et al. Automatic Detection of Slag Eye Area Based on a Hue-Saturation-Value Image Segmentation Algorithm. JOM 74, 2921–2929 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-021-05094-y

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