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  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,651 Views
15 Pages

Tire Defect Detection via 3D Laser Scanning Technology

  • Li Zheng,
  • Hong Lou,
  • Xiaomin Xu and
  • Jiangang Lu

16 October 2023

Tire defect detection, as an important application of automatic inspection techniques in the industrial field, remains a challenging task because of the diversity and complexity of defect types. Existing research mainly relies on X-ray images for the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,905 Views
12 Pages

Tire Bubble Defect Detection Using Incremental Learning

  • Chuan-Yu Chang,
  • You-Da Su and
  • Wei-Yi Li

28 November 2022

Digital shearography is a technique that has recently been applied to material inspections that cannot be performed by the naked eyes, including the detection of air bubble defects in tires. Although digital shearography detects bubbles that are not...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Manufacturing Technologies: Development and Prospect)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,441 Views
19 Pages

A Curvature-Based Three-Dimensional Defect Detection System for Rotational Symmetry Tire

  • Yifei You,
  • Wenhua Jiao,
  • Jinglong Chen,
  • Zhaoyi Wang and ,
  • Xiaofei Liu,
  • Zhenwen Liu,
  • Yuantao Chen and
  • Xiaofei Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

26 November 2024

The efficient detection of tire sidewall defects is crucial for ensuring safety and quality control in manufacturing. Traditional inspection is slow and inconsistent, while automated methods fail to address the complexity and coexistence of multiple...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Data Analysis and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,889 Views
15 Pages

21 May 2022

With the development of neural networks, object detection based on deep learning is developing rapidly, and its applications are gradually increasing. In the tire industry, detecting speckle interference bubble defects of tire crown has difficulties...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Sensing and Monitoring for Industrial Process)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,313 Views
19 Pages

Unsupervised Learning with Generative Adversarial Network for Automatic Tire Defect Detection from X-ray Images

  • Yilin Wang,
  • Yulong Zhang,
  • Li Zheng,
  • Liedong Yin and ,
  • Jinshui Chen and
  • Jiangang Lu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

12 October 2021

Automatic defect detection of tire has become an essential issue in the tire industry. However, it is challenging to inspect the inner structure of tire by surface detection. Therefore, an X-ray image sensor is used for tire defect inspection. At pre...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
897 Views
11 Pages

DyReCS-YOLO: A Dynamic Re-Parameterized Channel-Shuffle Network for Accurate X-Ray Tire Defect Detection

  • Xinlong Bai,
  • Quancheng Dong,
  • Jinshuo Han,
  • Youjie Zhou and ,
  • Xu Qi and
  • Longteng Tian
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 November 2025

Reliable detection of X-ray tire defects is essential for safety and quality assurance in manufacturing. However, low contrast and high noise make traditional methods unreliable. This paper presents DyReCS-YOLO, a dynamic re-parameterized channel-shu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2D/3D Industrial Visual Inspection and Intelligent Image Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,549 Views
12 Pages

AdvancingTire Safety: Explainable Artificial Intelligence-Powered Foreign Object Defect Detection with Xception Networks and Grad-CAM Interpretation

  • Radhwan A. A. Saleh,
  • Farid Al-Areqi,
  • Mehmet Zeki Konyar,
  • Kaplan Kaplan and ,
  • Semih Öngir and
  • H. Metin Ertunc
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 May 2024

Automatic detection of tire defects has become an important issue for tire production companies since these defects cause road accidents and loss of human lives. Defects in the inner structure of the tire cannot be detected with the naked eye; thus,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,966 Views
14 Pages

Detection of Bubble Defects on Tire Surface Based on Line Laser and Machine Vision

  • Hualin Yang,
  • Yuanzheng Jiang,
  • Fang Deng,
  • Yusong Mu and ,
  • Yan Zhong and
  • Dongmei Jiao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 January 2022

In order to eliminate driving dangers caused by tire surface bubbles, the detection method of bubble defects on tire surfaces based on line lasers and machine vision is studied. Since it is difficult to recognize tire surfaces directly through images...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
9,850 Views
24 Pages

Analysis of the Possibilities of Tire-Defect Inspection Based on Unsupervised Learning and Deep Learning

  • Ivan Kuric,
  • Jaromír Klarák,
  • Milan Sága,
  • Miroslav Císar and ,
  • Adrián Hajdučík and
  • Dariusz Wiecek
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 October 2021

At present, inspection systems process visual data captured by cameras, with deep learning approaches applied to detect defects. Defect detection results usually have an accuracy higher than 94%. Real-life applications, however, are not very common....

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,252 Views
14 Pages

A Hybrid Cracked Tiers Detection System Based on Adaptive Correlation Features Selection and Deep Belief Neural Networks

  • Ali Mohsin Al-juboori,
  • Ali Hakem Alsaeedi,
  • Riyadh Rahef Nuiaa,
  • Zaid Abdi Alkareem Alyasseri and ,
  • Nor Samsiah Sani,
  • Suha Mohammed Hadi,
  • Husam Jasim Mohammed,
  • Bashaer Abbuod Musawi and
  • Maifuza Mohd Amin
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

29 January 2023

Tire defects are crucial for safe driving. Specialized experts or expensive tools such as stereo depth cameras and depth gages are usually used to investigate these defects. In image processing, feature extraction, reduction, and classification are p...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Computer Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
152 Views
29 Pages

30 October 2026

The safety and reliability of automobile tires depend directly on the early detection of internal defects, since undetected air bubbles between rubber layers can propagate into catastrophic in-service failures. Although digital shearography has becom...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,765 Views
24 Pages

2 August 2018

Automatic defect detection is an important and challenging issue in the tire industrial quality control. As is well known, the production quality of tire is directly related to the vehicle running safety and passenger security. However, it is difficu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors Signal Processing and Visual Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,114 Views
13 Pages

Quality Assessment of Tire Shearography Images via Ensemble Hybrid Faster Region-Based ConvNets

  • Chuan-Yu Chang,
  • Kathiravan Srinivasan,
  • Wei-Chun Wang,
  • Ganapathy Pattukandan Ganapathy and ,
  • Durai Raj Vincent and
  • N Deepa
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

In recent times, the application of enabling technologies such as digital shearography combined with deep learning approaches in the smart quality assessment of tires, which leads to intelligent tire manufacturing practices with automated defects det...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Learning Applications with Practical Measured Results in Electronics Industries)
  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
13,326 Views
13 Pages

20 July 2023

The tire industry plays a key role in ensuring safe and efficient transportation. With 1.1 billion vehicles worldwide relying on tires for optimum performance, tire quality control is of paramount importance. In recent years, the integration of artif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Complex Systems Analysis in Transportation and Maintenance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,643 Views
20 Pages

The present paper discusses a comparative application of image processing techniques, i.e., Discrete Fourier Transform, K-Means clustering and Artificial Neural Network, for the detection of defects in the industrial context of assembled tires. The u...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,252 Views
18 Pages

Anomaly Segmentation Based on Depth Image for Quality Inspection Processes in Tire Manufacturing

  • Dongbeom Ko,
  • Sungjoo Kang,
  • Hyunsuk Kim,
  • Wongok Lee and ,
  • Yousuk Bae and
  • Jeongmin Park
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

4 November 2021

This paper introduces and implements an efficient training method for deep learning–based anomaly area detection in the depth image of a tire. A depth image of 16 bit integer size is used in various fields, such as manufacturing, industry, and medici...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Design and Manufacturing in Industry 4.0)
  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
7,457 Views
19 Pages

Approach to Automated Visual Inspection of Objects Based on Artificial Intelligence

  • Ivan Kuric,
  • Jaromír Klarák,
  • Vladimír Bulej,
  • Milan Sága and ,
  • Matej Kandera,
  • Adrián Hajdučík and
  • Karol Tucki
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

15 January 2022

The article discusses the possibility of object detector usage in field of automated visual inspection for objects with specific parameters, specifically various types of defects occurring on the surface of a car tire. Due to the insufficient amount...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Robotics, Automation and Mechatronics (RAM))
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,202 Views
26 Pages

Optimization of an Optical Test Bench for Tire Properties Measurement and Tread Defects Characterization

  • Juan Jesús Castillo Aguilar,
  • Juan Antonio Cabrera Carrillo,
  • Antonio Jesús Guerra Fernández and
  • Sergio Postigo Pozo

29 March 2017

Tire characteristics and behavior are of great importance in vehicle dynamics since the forces transmitted in the tire-road contact are the main contributors to global vehicle performance. Several research groups have focused on the study and modelin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology in Spain 2016)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,822 Views
23 Pages

21 October 2025

In shearography-based tire testing, so-called “Mode Hops”, abrupt phase changes caused by laser mode changes, can lead to significant disturbances in the interference image analysis. These artifacts distort defect assessment, lead to rete...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,593 Views
17 Pages

A Study on Wheel Member Condition Recognition Using 1D–CNN

  • Jin-Han Lee,
  • Jun-Hee Lee,
  • Chang-Jae Lee,
  • Seung-Lok Lee and ,
  • Jin-Pyung Kim and
  • Jae-Hoon Jeong
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 November 2023

The condition of a railway vehicle’s wheels is an essential factor for safe operation. However, the current inspection of railway vehicle wheels is limited to periodic major and minor maintenance, where physical anomalies such as vibrations and...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)