Assessment of the tyre footprint shape

In this paper we present an image processing application for automatic shape analysis of tyre-ground contact area. Conducting such evaluations is essential since tyres are responsible for giving support for the vehicle and for transferring forces necessary to obtain required kinematic behavior of the vehicle. Usually analysis and comparison of tyre footprints is done just by looking on them. Automatisation of this inspection process, by means of image processing, can make footprint classification and assessment objective and more efficient.