Improved SSD-assisted algorithm for surface defect detection of electromagnetic luminescence

2021 ◽  
pp. 1748006X2199538
Author(s):  
Zhenying Xu ◽  
Ziqian Wu ◽  
Wei Fan
Keyword(s):  
Defect Detection ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Recognition Rate ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Surface Defect Detection ◽  
Feature Pyramid ◽  
Small Feature

Defect detection of electromagnetic luminescence (EL) cells is the core step in the production and preparation of solar cell modules to ensure conversion efficiency and long service life of batteries. However, due to the lack of feature extraction capability for small feature defects, the traditional single shot multibox detector (SSD) algorithm performs not well in EL defect detection with high accuracy. Consequently, an improved SSD algorithm with modification in feature fusion in the framework of deep learning is proposed to improve the recognition rate of EL multi-class defects. A dataset containing images with four different types of defects through rotation, denoising, and binarization is established for the EL. The proposed algorithm can greatly improve the detection accuracy of the small-scale defect with the idea of feature pyramid networks. An experimental study on the detection of the EL defects shows the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm. Moreover, a comparison study shows the proposed method outperforms other traditional detection methods, such as the SIFT, Faster R-CNN, and YOLOv3, in detecting the EL defect.

Feature weighting network for aircraft engine defect detection

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (03) ◽  
pp. 2050012
Author(s):  
Liqiong Chen ◽  
Lian Zou ◽  
Cien Fan ◽  
Yifeng Liu
Keyword(s):  
Defect Detection ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Aircraft Engine ◽  
Air Transportation ◽  
Feature Weighting ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Feature Pyramid ◽  
New Feature

Automatic aircraft engine defect detection is a challenging but important task in industry which can ensure safe air transportation and flight. In this paper, we propose a fast and accurate feature weighting network (FWNet) to solve the problem of defect scale variation and improve detection accuracy. The framework is designed based on recent popular convolutional neural networks and feature pyramid. To further boost the representation power of the network, a new feature weighting module (FWM) was proposed to recalibrate the channel-wise attention and increase the weights of valid features. The model was trained and tested on a self-built dataset, which consisted of 1916 images and contained three defect types: ablation, crack and coating missing. Extensive experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed FWM and show that the proposed method can accurately detect engine defects of different scales and different locations. Our method obtains 89.4% mAP and can run at 6FPS, which surpasses other state-of-the-art detection methods and can quickly provide diagnostic basis for aircraft maintenance inspectors in practical applications.

scholarly journals Metal Surface Defect Detection Using Modified YOLO

Algorithms ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (9) ◽  
pp. 257
Author(s):  
Yiming Xu ◽  
Kai Zhang ◽  
Li Wang
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Metal Surface ◽  
Defect Detection ◽  
Surface Defect ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Cluster Center ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Detection Technology ◽  
Speed Advantage ◽  
Surface Defect Detection

Aiming at the problems of inefficient detection caused by traditional manual inspection and unclear features in metal surface defect detection, an improved metal surface defect detection technology based on the You Only Look Once (YOLO) model is presented. The shallow features of the 11th layer in the Darknet-53 are combined with the deep features of the neural network to generate a new scale feature layer using the basis of the network structure of YOLOv3. Its goal is to extract more features of small defects. Furthermore, then, K-Means++ is used to reduce the sensitivity to the initial cluster center when analyzing the size information of the anchor box. The optimal anchor box is selected to make the positioning more accurate. The performance of the modified metal surface defect detection technology is compared with other detection methods on the Tianchi dataset. The results show that the average detection accuracy of the modified YOLO model is 75.1%, which ia higher than that of YOLOv3. Furthermore, it also has a great detection speed advantage, compared with faster region-based convolutional neural network (Faster R-CNN) and other detection algorithms. The improved YOLO model can make the highly accurate location information of the small defect target and has strong real-time performance.

Fabric defect detection based on multi-source feature fusion

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhoufeng Liu ◽  
Shanliang Liu ◽  
Chunlei Li ◽  
Bicao Li
Keyword(s):  
Defect Detection ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
New Method ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Fabric Defect Detection ◽  
Promising Tool ◽  
Fabric Defect

PurposeThis paper aims to propose a new method to solve the two problems in fabric defect detection. Current state-of-the-art industrial products defect detectors are deep learning-based, which incurs some additional problems: (1) The model is difficult to train due to too few fabric datasets for the difficulty of collecting pictures; (2) The detection accuracy of existing methods is insufficient to implement in the industrial field. This study intends to propose a new method which can be applied to fabric defect detection in the industrial field.Design/methodology/approachTo cope with exist fabric defect detection problems, the article proposes a novel fabric defect detection method based on multi-source feature fusion. In the training process, both layer features and source model information are fused to enhance robustness and accuracy. Additionally, a novel training model called multi-source feature fusion (MSFF) is proposed to tackle the limited samples and demand to obtain fleet and precise quantification automatically.FindingsThe paper provides a novel fabric defect detection method, experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves an AP of 93.9 and 98.8% when applied to the TILDA(a public dataset) and ZYFD datasets (a real-shot dataset), respectively, and outperforms 5.9% than fine-tuned SSD (single shot multi-box detector).Research limitations/implicationsOur proposed algorithm can provide a promising tool for fabric defect detection.Practical implicationsThe paper includes implications for the development of a powerful brand image, the development of “brand ambassadors” and for managing the balance between stability and change.Social implicationsThis work provides technical support for real-time detection on industrial sites, advances the process of intelligent manual detection of fabric defects and provides a technical reference for object detection on other industrialOriginality/valueTherefore, our proposed algorithm can provide a promising tool for fabric defect detection.

scholarly journals A Vehicle and Pedestrian Detection Method Based on Improved YOLOv4-Tiny

2022 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 22-26
Author(s):  
Hui Xiang ◽  
Junyan Han ◽  
Hanqing Wang ◽  
Hao Li ◽  
Shangqing Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Detection Method ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Pedestrian Detection ◽  
Mean Average Precision ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Improved Method ◽  
Average Precision ◽  
The Mean

Aiming at the problems of low detection accuracy and poor recognition effect of small-scale targets in traditional vehicle and pedestrian detection methods, a vehicle and pedestrian detection method based on improved YOLOv4-Tiny is proposed. On the basis of YOLOv4-Tiny, the 8-fold down sampling feature layer was added for feature fusion, the PANet structure was used to perform bidirectional fusion for the deep and shallow features from the output feature layer of backbone network, and the detection head for small targets was added. The results show that the mean average precision of the improved method has reached 85.93%, and the detection performance is similar to that of YOLOv4. Compared with the YOLOv4-Tiny, the mean average precision of the improved method is increased by 24.45%, and the detection speed reaches 67.83FPS, which means that the detection effect is significantly improved and can meet the real-time requirements.

scholarly journals Research on Surface Defect Detection of Rare-Earth Magnetic Materials Based on Improved SSD

Complexity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Bin Zhang ◽  
Shuqi Fang ◽  
Zhixi Li
Keyword(s):  
Rare Earth ◽  
Magnetic Materials ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Surface Defects ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Increase Production Efficiency ◽  
Surface Defect Detection ◽  
Feature Pyramid ◽  
High Level

In order to overcome the limitation of manual visual inspection of surface defects of rare-earth magnetic materials and increase production efficiency of traditional rare-earth enterprises, a detection method based on improved SSD (Single Shot Detector) is proposed. The SSD model is improved from two aspects for better performance in the detection of small defects. First of all, the multiscale receptive field module is embedded into the backbone network of the algorithm to improve the feature extraction ability of the model. Secondly, the interlayer feature fusion strategy of bidirectional feature pyramid in PANet (path aggregation network) is integrated into the model. In order to enhance the detection ability of the model, the high-level semantic information is strengthened by an efficient channel attention mechanism. The detection speed of the improved SSD algorithm is 55FPS, and the mAP (mean Average Precision) is up to 83.65%, which is 3.41% higher than of the original SSD algorithm, and the ability to identify small defects is significantly improved.

scholarly journals Research on a Surface Defect Detection Algorithm Based on MobileNet-SSD

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yiting Li ◽  
Haisong Huang ◽  
Qingsheng Xie ◽  
Liguo Yao ◽  
Qipeng Chen
Keyword(s):  
Defect Detection ◽  
Surface Defect ◽  
Surface Defects ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Single Shot ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
Machine Learning Methods ◽  
Network Methods ◽  
Surface Defect Detection

This paper aims to achieve real-time and accurate detection of surface defects by using a deep learning method. For this purpose, the Single Shot MultiBox Detector (SSD) network was adopted as the meta structure and combined with the base convolution neural network (CNN) MobileNet into the MobileNet-SSD. Then, a detection method for surface defects was proposed based on the MobileNet-SSD. Specifically, the structure of the SSD was optimized without sacrificing its accuracy, and the network structure and parameters were adjusted to streamline the detection model. The proposed method was applied to the detection of typical defects like breaches, dents, burrs and abrasions on the sealing surface of a container in the filling line. The results show that our method can automatically detect surface defects more accurately and rapidly than lightweight network methods and traditional machine learning methods. The research results shed new light on defect detection in actual industrial scenarios.

A surface defect detection method based on multi-feature fusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojun Wu ◽  
Huijiang Xiong ◽  
Zhiyang Yu ◽  
Peizhi Wen
Keyword(s):  
Defect Detection ◽  
Surface Defect ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
Surface Defect Detection

scholarly journals A New Steel Defect Detection Algorithm Based on Deep Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Weidong Zhao ◽  
Feng Chen ◽  
Hancheng Huang ◽  
Dan Li ◽  
Wei Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Target Detection ◽  
Defect Detection ◽  
Steel Surface ◽  
Surface Defect ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Average Precision ◽  
Original Algorithm ◽  
Surface Defect Detection

In recent years, more and more scholars devoted themselves to the research of the target detection algorithm due to the continuous development of deep learning. Among them, the detection and recognition of small and complex targets are still a problem to be solved. The authors of this article have understood the shortcomings of the deep learning detection algorithm in detecting small and complex defect targets and would like to share a new improved target detection algorithm in steel surface defect detection. The steel surface defects will affect the quality of steel seriously. We find that most of the current detection algorithms for NEU-DET dataset detection accuracy are low, so we choose to verify a steel surface defect detection algorithm based on machine vision on this dataset for the problem of defect detection in steel production. A series of improvement measures are carried out in the traditional Faster R-CNN algorithm, such as reconstructing the network structure of Faster R-CNN. Based on the small features of the target, we train the network with multiscale fusion. For the complex features of the target, we replace part of the conventional convolution network with a deformable convolution network. The experimental results show that the deep learning network model trained by the proposed method has good detection performance, and the mean average precision is 0.752, which is 0.128 higher than the original algorithm. Among them, the average precision of crazing, inclusion, patches, pitted surface, rolled in scale and scratches is 0.501, 0.791, 0.792, 0.874, 0.649, and 0.905, respectively. The detection method is able to identify small target defects on the steel surface effectively, which can provide a reference for the automatic detection of steel defects.

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