Segmentation-based deep-learning approach for surface-defect detection

Domen Tabernik (), Samo Šela, Jure Skvarč and Danijel Skočaj ()
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Domen Tabernik: University of Ljubljana
Samo Šela: Kolektor Group d. o. o.
Jure Skvarč: Kolektor Orodjarna d. o. o.
Danijel Skočaj: University of Ljubljana

Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2020, vol. 31, issue 3, No 13, 759-776

Abstract: Abstract Automated surface-anomaly detection using machine learning has become an interesting and promising area of research, with a very high and direct impact on the application domain of visual inspection. Deep-learning methods have become the most suitable approaches for this task. They allow the inspection system to learn to detect the surface anomaly by simply showing it a number of exemplar images. This paper presents a segmentation-based deep-learning architecture that is designed for the detection and segmentation of surface anomalies and is demonstrated on a specific domain of surface-crack detection. The design of the architecture enables the model to be trained using a small number of samples, which is an important requirement for practical applications. The proposed model is compared with the related deep-learning methods, including the state-of-the-art commercial software, showing that the proposed approach outperforms the related methods on the specific domain of surface-crack detection. The large number of experiments also shed light on the required precision of the annotation, the number of required training samples and on the required computational cost. Experiments are performed on a newly created dataset based on a real-world quality control case and demonstrates that the proposed approach is able to learn on a small number of defected surfaces, using only approximately 25–30 defective training samples, instead of hundreds or thousands, which is usually the case in deep-learning applications. This makes the deep-learning method practical for use in industry where the number of available defective samples is limited. The dataset is also made publicly available to encourage the development and evaluation of new methods for surface-defect detection.

Keywords: Surface-defect detection; Visual inspection; Quality control; Deep learning; Computer vision; Segmentation networks; Industry 4.0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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