As an important car component, the tires rely on tread to increase grip force and achieve greater driving safety. However, tires are also a consumable; they wear off over time and long-term wear causes gradual functional degradation of tread leading to problems, such as slippage, tire explosions, and air leakage. Therefore, a technique to extract tread using skeletonizing of the smooth region (ETUS) is proposed in this study to overcome the weakness of the texture-based region of Interest (TBRI) algorithm [1].
['Shih-Yen Huang', 'You-Jyun Syu', 'Wen-Yuan Chen']
Tread extraction using skeletonizing