The invention discloses a
visual computing-based intelligent detection method and apparatus for the appearance and performance of an
electricity meter. The method comprises the steps of 1, shooting image information of the to-be-detected
electricity meter by frames, obtaining a high-resolution image by adopting a line-by-
line scanning method, and generating to-be-processed original image data; 2,according to target region locating, segmenting the collected image, segmenting a target region by adopting an edge-based
image segmentation method, extracting
single character images, and generatinga to-be-identified character set; 3, comparing the segmented image information with stored information, judging whether the appearance structure of the
electricity meter is intact or not and display parameters are normal or not, and generating an identification result; and 4, according to the identification result, performing statistics on
analysis data, generating a detection report and uploadingthe detection report to an upper computer. The operation is simple and convenient; the accuracy is high; and through automatic detection, the
electricity meter detection efficiency is improved, and the problems of low efficiency and high error rate of conventional manual detection are solved.