ANALYZE DISCHARGES ACTIVITY AND MONITOR FLASHOVER USING IMAGE PROCESSING

MONITORING FLASHOVER USING IMAGE PROCESSING

        Insulator flashover under pollution is one of the most important problems for power transmission. Occurrence of flashover is preceded by discharges propagation.

 To monitor discharges activity through arcing discharges pattern recognition using a combination of efficient image processing and classification algorithms. Images are extracted from recorded videos of flashover process over a plane model insulator under various contamination levels. 

 An algorithm is proposed and tested over a large image database. This algorithm processes in four stages.

1. Otsu image segmentation algorithm is initially applied on images.

2. Morphological filtering by combining erosion and dilation operations is computed to eliminate unwanted noises such as light reflections on the insulator model.

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Elaboration of Novel Image Processing Algorithm for Arcing Discharges Recognition on HV Polluted Insulator Model