Deeper and Mixed Supervision for Salient Object Detection in Automated Surface Inspection

Senbo Yan, Xiaowen Song and Guocong Liu

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2020, vol. 2020, 1-12

Abstract:

In recent years, researches in the field of salient object detection have been widely made in many industrial visual inspection tasks. Automated surface inspection (ASI) can be regarded as one of the most challenging tasks in computer vision because of its high cost of data acquisition, serious imbalance of test samples, and high real-time requirement. Inspired by the requirements of industrial ASI and the methods of salient object detection (SOD), a task mode of defect type classification plus defect area segmentation and a novel deeper and mixed supervision network (DMS) architecture is proposed. The backbone network ResNeXt-101 was pretrained on ImageNet. Firstly, we extract five multiscale feature maps from backbone and concatenate them layer by layer. In addition, to obtain the classification prediction and saliency maps in one stage, the image-level and pixel-level ground truth is trained in a same side output network. Supervision signal is imposed on each side layer to realize deeper and mixed training for the network. Furthermore, the DMS network is equipped with residual refinement mechanism to refine the saliency maps of input images. We evaluate the DMS network on 4 open access ASI datasets and compare it with other 20 methods, which indicates that mixed supervision can significantly improve the accuracy of saliency segmentation. Experiment results show that the proposed method can achieve the state-of-the-art performance.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1155/2020/3751053

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