US 12,283,058 B1
Method and system for analyzing global average grayscale change of tundish ink tracing experiment
Lifeng Zhang, Beijing (CN); Haojian Duan, Beijing (CN); Dinghan Li, Beijing (CN); Yuexin Zhang, Beijing (CN); Wei Chen, Beijing (CN); and Ying Ren, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to North China University of Technology, Beijing (CN); and University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing (CN)
Filed by North China University of Technology, Beijing (CN); and University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing (CN)
Filed on Jul. 26, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/785,108.
Claims priority of application No. 202311268116.9 (CN), filed on Sep. 28, 2023.
Int. Cl. G06T 7/246 (2017.01); G01N 11/02 (2006.01); G06T 7/62 (2017.01); G06T 7/64 (2017.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01)
CPC G06T 7/246 (2017.01) [G01N 11/02 (2013.01); G06T 7/62 (2017.01); G06T 7/64 (2017.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10016 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30136 (2013.01)] 3 Claims
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1. A method for analyzing global average grayscale change of tundish ink tracing experiment, comprising following steps:
building a water model based on a prototype size and production parameters of a tundish;
carrying out experiments by using the water model to obtain a video file of an ink tracing;
processing the video file and extracting a characteristic curve of a global average grayscale changing with time;
wherein a method for processing the video file and extracting the characteristic curve of the global average grayscale changing with the time comprises:
extracting pictures in the video file frame by frame, and sequentially saving each frame of the pictures as an image, and sequentially named as Image_00001, Image_00002, Image_00003 . . . , and all images are saved in an image folder Image_File;
processing an extracted first frame image, painting a non-research area as pure white, and taking a remaining area as a research area, and simultaneously reading and recording positions of the research area and the non-research area through a computer program;
based on a read position of the non-research area, processing all the images in the image folder Image_File by the computer program, and painting each non-research area of all the images pure white;
finding a first image with ink at an inlet from front to back in the image folder Image_File, and renamed as Im_00001, an image before the Im_00001 is an initial image, and renamed as Im_00000, and sequentially renaming images after Im_00001 as Im_00002, Im_00003 . . . , and deleting remaining images;
reading an RGB value of the Im_00000 image through the computer program, using RGB values of all the images in the image folder Image_File to subtract the RGB value of Im_00000 image to obtain new images, and saving all the new images in an image folder Post_File, being named as Post_00000, Post_00001, Post_00002, post_00003 . . . in turn;
based on a read position of the research area, reading and calculating an average grayscale value of a research area of each image in the image folder Post_File in turn by the computer program, and saving the average grayscale value in a Post_Gray array in turn;
based on a shooting frame rate of a high-speed camera, creating the characteristic curve of the global average grayscale changing with the time, wherein an abscissa is the time, obtained by converting from the shooting frame rate of the high-speed camera, and an ordinate is a normalized grayscale value, obtained by dividing each value in the Post_Gray array by a maximum value in the Post_Gray array;
analyzing the characteristic curve, and extracting a global peak grayscale time, a global tracer residual volume and a global emptying time as indicators for evaluating a tundish structure and flow characteristics of the tundish structure;
wherein a method for analyzing the characteristic curve, and extracting the global peak grayscale time, the global tracer residual volume and the global emptying time as the indicators for evaluating the tundish structure and the flow characteristics of the tundish structure comprises:
based on the characteristic curve of the global average grayscale changing with the time, obtaining a first moment with a normalized grayscale value of 1.00, meaning a time of the abscissa corresponding to a first time of 1.00 in the ordinate, and defining the time of the corresponding abscissa as the global peak grayscale time;
based on the characteristic curve of the global average grayscale changing with the time, obtaining an average grayscale value corresponding to 2 times of theoretical residence time, meaning an average grayscale value corresponding to 2 times the theoretical residence time in the abscissa, and defining the corresponding average grayscale value as the global tracer residual volume;
based on the characteristic curve of the global average grayscale changing with the time, obtaining a first moment with a normalized grayscale value of 0.05, meaning a time of the abscissa corresponding to a first time of 0.05 in the ordinate, and defining the time corresponding to the abscissa as the global emptying time; and
using the global peak grayscale time, the global tracer residual volume and the global emptying time as the indicators for evaluating the tundish structure and the flow characteristics of the tundish structure.