Image processing towards the automated identification of nanoparticles in SEM images
Nicolene Botha, Gert Wessels, Natasha Botha, Beatrice van Eden · 2019 Southern African Universities Power Engineering Conference/Robotics and Mechatronics/Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (SAUPEC/RobMech/PRASA) · 2019
SEM images are crucial in the characterisation of material properties. These images can be very hard to interpret without any prior knowledge of the material. This paper discusses a pre-processing method for assisting convolutional Neural Networks in identifying the presence of nanoparticles in composite SEM images. The pre-processing method is developed using a synthetic SEM image.