Multialgorithm Fusion for Milling Tool Abrasion and Breakage Evaluation Based on Machine Vision

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Dear Authors,

The article I reviewed: "Multi-algorithm fusion for milling tool abrasion and breakage 2 evaluation based on machine vision" takes up the important topic of blade condition monitoring in the milling process, which can still be developed and improved. The article, however, has some shortcomings and requires some minor corrections. The shortcomings of the article include:

- Page 3, table 1, line 3 - The authors wrote "Light source", it is worth providing more information about this light source in the text before the table (for example whether it is an LED or other source, what power it has, etc.).

- Page 4, caption for Figure 3 is imprecise - what did the Authors mean when they wrote: "15th (or 29th) cutting tool"?

- Page 3, table 1, table 2 and 3 shows the comparison of the results obtained from the image analysis and from the measurements. It is worth discussing and showing how the measurements were made and on what equipment. This is important information.

- Please consider the conclusions. The conclusions in the first part contain general information about the conducted research. Actual conclusions start from line 428 with the words "The accuracy of the algorithm ...". Isn't it worth shortening the conclusions?

Best regards,

Reviewer

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Reviewer 2 Report

The post is interesting and well done. Considering the printing and clarity, I would recommend the authors to increase the quality of the used images by making them clearer - the gray areas will become more visible.

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Reviewer 3 Report

good work and interesting topic, which is in focus of the most machining researcher nowadays. References are mostly from the Asian region, it would be good to look at Europe, US, e.g. Thomas Bergs, P. Wiederkehr and try to show the added value of your method in comparison to the state of the art.

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