Title: A deep learning-based method for aluminium foil-surface defect recognition

Authors: Hui Wang; Chunhua Gao; Yongfa Ling

Addresses: College of Information and Communication Engineering, Hezhou University, Hezhou, Guangxi, 542899, China ' College of Tourism and Sports Rehabilitation, Hezhou University, Hezhou, Guangxi, 542899, China ' College of Information and Communication Engineering, Hezhou University, Hezhou, Guangxi, 542899, China

Abstract: In order to effectively detect and classify various defects on the surface of aluminium foil products, including contaminants, coining, shine marks and scratches, etc., the method of convolution neural network (CNN) is used and the detection of surface defects of aluminium product is realised by machine learning. Firstly, aluminium foil images are collected by CCD camera, and edge detection is performed on these images to obtain a complete picture area. Then, the robust principal component analysis (RPCA) method was used to perform underlying low-rank and sparse decomposition on the data matrix to obtain the defect areas in these images; Finally, using TensorFlow platform to build a CNN model, loading aluminium foil images and training to get the CNN model parameters, according to this CNN network model, the surface defects of aluminium foil images can be detected and classified in real-time. Numerical experiments verified that the proposed algorithm has the following advantages such as high accuracy, favourable expansibility and so on. It can also be easily applied into surface defect detection for other objects.

Keywords: defect detection; convolution neural network; CNN; deep learning; TensorFlow; aluminium foil image.

DOI: 10.1504/IJICT.2021.117532

International Journal of Information and Communication Technology, 2021 Vol.19 No.3, pp.231 - 241

Received: 27 Nov 2019
Accepted: 31 Dec 2019
Published online: 13 Sep 2021 *

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