scholarly journals Steel Surface Defect Classification Based on Small Sample Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 11459
Author(s):  
Shiqing Wu ◽  
Shiyu Zhao ◽  
Qianqian Zhang ◽  
Long Chen ◽  
Chenrui Wu
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Steel Surface ◽  
Surface Defect ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Surface Defects ◽  
Feature Space ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Defect Classification ◽  
Sample Number ◽  
Degradation Problem

The classification of steel surface defects plays a very important role in analyzing their causes to improve manufacturing process and eliminate defects. However, defective samples are very scarce in actual production, so using very few samples to construct a good classifier is a challenge to be addressed. If the layer number of the model with proper depth is increased, the model accuracy will decrease (not caused by overfit), and the training error as well as the test error will be very high. This is called the degradation problem. In this paper, we propose to use feature extraction + feature transformation + nearest neighbors to classify steel surface defects. In order to solve the degradation problem caused by network deepening, the three feature extraction networks of Residual Net, Mobile Net and Dense Net are designed and analyzed. Experiment results show that in the case of a small sample number, Dense block can better solve the degradation problem caused by network deepening than Residual block. Moreover, if Dense Net is used as the feature extraction network, and the nearest neighbor classification algorithm based on Euclidean metric is used in the new feature space, the defect classification accuracy can reach 92.33% when only five labeled images of each category are used as the training set. This paper is of some guiding significance for surface defect classification when the sample number is small.

scholarly journals Classification of Microscopic Laser Engraving Surface Defect Images Based on Transfer Learning Method

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (16) ◽  
pp. 1993
Author(s):  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Zhenhao Li ◽  
Ruqian Hao ◽  
Xiangzhou Wang ◽  
Xiaohui Du ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Image Classification ◽  
Transfer Learning ◽  
Surface Defect ◽  
Feature Space ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Defect Classification ◽  
Classification Methods ◽  
Laser Engraving ◽  
Traditional Classification

Microscopic laser engraving surface defect classification plays an important role in the industrial quality inspection field. The key challenges of accurate surface defect classification are the complete description of the defect and the correct distinction into categories in the feature space. Traditional classification methods focus on the terms of feature extraction and independent classification; therefore, feed handcrafted features may result in useful feature loss. In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved excellent results in image classification tasks with the development of deep learning. Deep convolutional networks integrate feature extraction and classification into self-learning, but require large datasets. The training datasets for microscopic laser engraving image classification are small; therefore, we used pre-trained CNN models and applied two fine-tuning strategies. Transfer learning proved to perform well even on small future datasets. The proposed method was evaluated on the datasets consisting of 1986 laser engraving images captured by a metallographic microscope and annotated by experienced staff. Because handcrafted features were not used, our method is more robust and achieves better results than traditional classification methods. Under five-fold-validation, the average accuracy of the best model based on DenseNet121 is 96.72%.

scholarly journals Steel Surface Defect Classification Using Deep Residual Neural Network

Metals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 846
Author(s):  
Ihor Konovalenko ◽  
Pavlo Maruschak ◽  
Janette Brezinová ◽  
Ján Viňáš ◽  
Jakub Brezina
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Neural Networks ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Steel Surface ◽  
Surface Defect ◽  
Surface Defects ◽  
Defect Classification ◽  
Flat Surfaces ◽  
Automated Method ◽  
Speed And Accuracy

An automated method for detecting and classifying three classes of surface defects in rolled metal has been developed, which allows for conducting defectoscopy with specified parameters of efficiency and speed. The possibility of using the residual neural networks for classifying defects has been investigated. The classifier based on the ResNet50 neural network is accepted as a basis. The model allows classifying images of flat surfaces with damage of three classes with the general accuracy of 96.91% based on the test data. The use of ResNet50 is shown to provide excellent recognition, high speed, and accuracy, which makes it an effective tool for detecting defects on metal surfaces.

scholarly journals A Light-Weight Deep-Learning Model with Multi-Scale Features for Steel Surface Defect Classification

Materials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
pp. 4629
Author(s):  
Yang Liu ◽  
Yachao Yuan ◽  
Cristhian Balta ◽  
Jing Liu
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Steel Surface ◽  
Surface Defect ◽  
Surface Defects ◽  
Defect Classification ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Training Samples ◽  
Training Cost ◽  
Real Time Applications ◽  
Deep Learning Model

Automatic inspection of surface defects is crucial in industries for real-time applications. Nowadays, computer vision-based approaches have been successfully employed. However, most of the existing works need a large number of training samples to achieve satisfactory classification results, while collecting massive training datasets is labor-intensive and financially costly. Moreover, most of them obtain high accuracy at the expense of high latency, and are thus not suitable for real-time applications. In this work, a novel Concurrent Convolutional Neural Network (ConCNN) with different image scales is proposed, which is light-weighted and easy to deploy for real-time defect classification applications. To evaluate the performance of ConCNN, the NEU-CLS dataset is used in our experiments. Simulation results demonstrate that ConCNN performs better than other state-of-the-art approaches considering accuracy and latency for steel surface defect classification. Specifically, ConCNN achieves as high as 98.89% classification accuracy with only around 5.58 ms latency over low training cost.

Lightweight detection algorithm for fine-grained surface defects of aerospace seal rings

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Hui Liu ◽  
Boxia He ◽  
Yong He ◽  
Xiaotian Tao
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Defect Detection ◽  
Surface Defect ◽  
Surface Defects ◽  
Detection Algorithm ◽  
Seal Ring ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Aerospace Applications ◽  
Surface Defect Detection ◽  
The Mean

The existing seal ring surface defect detection methods for aerospace applications have the problems of low detection efficiency, strong specificity, large fine-grained classification errors, and unstable detection results. Considering these problems, a fine-grained seal ring surface defect detection algorithm for aerospace applications is proposed. Based on analysis of the stacking process of standard convolution, heat maps of original pixels in the receptive field participating in the convolution operation are quantified and generated. According to the generated heat map, the feature extraction optimization method of convolution combinations with different dilation rates is proposed, and an efficient convolution feature extraction network containing three kinds of dilated convolutions is designed. Combined with the O-ring surface defect features, a multiscale defect detection network is designed. Before the head of multiscale classification and position regression, feature fusion tree modules are added to ensure the reuse and compression of the responsive features of different receptive fields on the same scale feature maps. Experimental results show that on the O-rings-3000 testing dataset, the mean condition accuracy of the proposed algorithm reaches 95.10% for 5 types of surface defects of aerospace O-rings. Compared with RefineDet, the mean condition accuracy of the proposed algorithm is only reduced by 1.79%, while the parameters and FLOPs are reduced by 35.29% and 64.90%, respectively. Moreover, the proposed algorithm has good adaptability to image blur and light changes caused by the cutting of imaging hardware, thus saving the cost.

scholarly journals Strip Steel Surface Defects Recognition Based on SOCP Optimized Multiple Kernel RVM

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Hou Jingzhong ◽  
Xia Kewen ◽  
Yang Fan ◽  
Zu Baokai
Keyword(s):  
Steel Surface ◽  
Surface Defect ◽  
Surface Defects ◽  
Recognition Rate ◽  
Strip Surface ◽  
Strip Steel ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Multiple Kernel ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
Defect Recognition

Strip steel surface defect recognition is a pattern recognition problem with wide applications. Previous works on strip surface defect recognition mainly focus on feature selection and dimension reduction. There are also approaches on real-time systems that mainly exploit the autocorrection within some given picture. However, the instances cannot be used in practical applications because of a bad recognition rate and low efficiency. In this paper, we study the intelligent algorithm of strip steel surface defect recognition, where the goal is to improve the accuracy and save running time. This problem is very important in various applications, especially the process testing of steel manufacturing. We propose an approach called the second-order cone programming (SOCP) optimized multiple kernel relevance vector machine (MKRVM), which can recognize strip surface defects much better than other methods. The method includes the model parameter estimation, training, and optimization of the model based on SOCP and the classification test. We compare our approach with existing methods on strip surface defect recognition. The results demonstrate that our proposed approach can improve the recognition accuracy and reduce the time costs of the strip surface defect.

scholarly journals Generalized Completed Local Binary Patterns for Time-Efficient Steel Surface Defect Classification

2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 667-679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiwu Luo ◽  
Yichuang Sun ◽  
Pengcheng Li ◽  
Oluyomi Simpson ◽  
Lu Tian ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Steel Surface ◽  
Surface Defect ◽  
Local Binary Patterns ◽  
Defect Classification

NEAREST NEIGHBOR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS

2006 ◽  
Vol 20 (08) ◽  
pp. 1245-1259 ◽  
Author(s):  
XIPENG QIU ◽  
LIDE WU
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Nearest Neighbor ◽  
Small Sample Size ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Real World Data ◽  
Scatter Matrix ◽  
Linear Discriminant ◽  
Feature Extraction Method ◽  
Gaussian Density

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is a popular feature extraction technique in statistical pattern recognition. However, it often suffers from the small sample size problem when dealing with high-dimensional data. Moreover, while LDA is guaranteed to find the best directions when each class has a Gaussian density with a common covariance matrix, it can fail if the class densities are more general. In this paper, a novel nonparametric linear feature extraction method, nearest neighbor discriminant analysis (NNDA), is proposed from the view of the nearest neighbor classification. NNDA finds the important discriminant directions without assuming the class densities belong to any particular parametric family. It does not depend on the nonsingularity of the within-class scatter matrix either. Then we give an approximate approach to optimize NNDA and an extension to k-NN. We apply NNDA to the simulated data and real world data, the results demonstrate that NNDA outperforms the existing variant LDA methods.

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