Porous media have a wide range of applications in the field of material science and geology. The achievement of the shape parameters of a porous medium gives great significance to the reconstruction of the medium and the calculation of physical parameters such as porosity and permeability. A kind of particular porous media are focused on in the paper which are composed of randomly packed spheres made of glass. A modified Hough transform method using scanning electron microscope (SEM) images is proposed to detect the particles that compose the medium. The raw gray level image is preprocessed using a Gaussian filter. Then a modified vote mechanism is applied to transform the edge points obtained by gradient map into the accumulation array of the center locations. After a non-maximum suppression, final circle centers are picked up and their radii are estimated. The method is conducted on several SEM images, indicating the method can achieve a remarkable accuracy of ~75%.
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