Fault detection and diagnosis become one of today’s hot spots, which describes that image information is an important form of fault information, it can quickly through the image processing technique, and can accurately extract the characteristic signal. This article selects the color of the particle image, the integrated use of digital image processing, pattern recognition theory, the characteristic parameters of tribology knowledge, as well as the extraction, optimization, and digital; verifies the feasibility of iron spectrum of abrasive fault recognition, and provides a new efficient ferrographic wear particle image recognition method. Firstly, the grindstone image of the original color diesel engine was preprocessed, and the grindstone image of the ferrograph was identified by directly selecting grindstone from the preprocessed ferrograph image and selecting the target grindstone. According to the two types of abrasive particles, the characteristic parameters were first classified, and then the values of the characteristic parameters were obtained through the training and learning of the sample abrasive particles. In view of the large number of characteristic parameters of ferro-spectrum abrasive particles, this article determined the characteristic parameters suitable for the identification of abrasive particles in this article through the feature optimization and proved the correctness of the identification of characteristic parameters of abrasive particles through the test.