The Separating Algorithm for Overlapping Grain Images Based on Fuzzy Distance Transformation

In actual grain image,there always have the conglutinant or overlapping phenomenon.According to this situation,a new algo-rithm used to separate the overlapping grain is introduced.This method is that we first threshold image from the image,then we apply Fuzzy Distance Transform to get fuzzy distance image,and finally,we use the Watershed algorithm to apart conglutinant or overlapped grain.The result of the experiment shows that this method has high performance on conglutinant grain segmentation,and this method is al-so applicable for separation of all kinds of overlapping granule images.