• Infrared and Laser Engineering
  • Vol. 50, Issue 10, 2021G004 (2021)
Yichao Wang1、2, Zheng Zhang1, Haizhou Huang1, and Wenxiong Lin1
Author Affiliations
  • 1Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Fuzhou 350002, China
  • 2University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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    DOI: 10.3788/IRLA2021G004 Cite this Article
    Yichao Wang, Zheng Zhang, Haizhou Huang, Wenxiong Lin. Particle auto-statistics and measurement of the spherical powder for 3D printing based on deep learning[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2021, 50(10): 2021G004 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    With the development of metal powder 3D printing technology, how to accurately extract the particle size and spheroidization rate information of powder particles from microscopic images has gained much more importance. In this paper, a particle auto-statistics and measurement system on microscopic imaging of the spherical powder was presented, based on one deep learning framework—Mask R-CNN. The proposed model can efficiently detect more than 1 000 particles in a microscopy image, even under the existence of many occlusion particles, and provide statistical results of particle size distribution, degree of sphericity and spheroidization ratio, simultaneously. Compared with traditional image segmentation method, the particle recognition accuracy was improved by 23.6%. Moreover, smaller particles that stuck on big particles can be recognized, according to the comparison in particle size distribution between proposed method and the laser diffraction technique.
    $Sp(t) = \sum\limits_{i = 0}^{n + k} {{p_i}N_i^k(t)} $(1)

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    $\begin{array}{l} N_i^0(t) = \left\{ \begin{gathered} 0,{\rm{ }}{t_i} \leqslant t \leqslant {t_{i + 1}} \\ 1,{\rm{ }}\rm otherwise \\ \end{gathered} \right. \\ N_i^k(t) = \dfrac{{t - {t_i}}}{{{t_{i + k}} - {t_i}}}N_i^{k - 1}(t) + \dfrac{{{t_{i + k + 1}} - t}}{{{t_{i + k + 1}} - {t_{i + 1}}}}N_{i + 1}^{k - 1}(t) \\ \end{array} $(2)

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    $DS = \frac{{2\sqrt {\pi A} }}{P}$(3)

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    $SR = \left(1 - \dfrac{{{N_{non}}}}{{{N_{all}}}}\right) \times 100 {\text{%}} $(4)

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    Yichao Wang, Zheng Zhang, Haizhou Huang, Wenxiong Lin. Particle auto-statistics and measurement of the spherical powder for 3D printing based on deep learning[J]. Infrared and Laser Engineering, 2021, 50(10): 2021G004
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