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An intelligent real-time vision system for surface defect detection
Abstract
In recent years, there is an increased need for quality control in the manufacturing sectors. In the steel making, the rolling operation is often the last process that significantly affects the bulk microstructure of the steel. The cost of having defects on rolled steel is high because it takes more than 5000 KW-Hr to produce a ton of steel. Early detection of defects can reduce product damage and manufacturing cost. This paper describes a real-time visual inspection system that uses support vector machine to automatically learn complicated defect patterns. Based on the experimental results generated from over one thousand images, the proposed system is found to be effective in detecting steel surface detects. The speed of the system for feature extraction and defect detection is less than 6 msec per one-megabyte image.
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“For long products, particularly wire rods, speed could be as high as 225 miles/h (100 m/s) [2].”
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“First-order gradient filter followed by thresholding is more commonly used for edge localisation [2,44,46,59,76] due to its noise immunity characteristics compared to Laplacian.”
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“Region growing has been employed [2,24,59,76], particularly after the use of gradient operators, to identify RoIs.”
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“Spatial domain techniques are fast and easy to implement compared to wavelet-based methods, and they have been used in most of the papers where suitability for real-time operation have also been reported [2,24,26,35,46,58,59,61,76].”
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“However, in [2], the use of horizontal gradient operator for detection of vertical edge of seam defects also simultaneously detected equal number of pseudo defects.”
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“Based on seam defect characteristics being very thin and darker than background, seed points were identified and subsequent region growing step provided RoIs.”
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“Thus, it has been widely used for separation of defects from pseudo defects in steel surfaces [2,5,44,47,65,67].”
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“Gaussian radial basis function (RBF) kernel function was found to be routinely used for steel surface defect classification [2,83,85].”
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“Subsequently, accuracy from SVM classifier was found to be better than NN-BP classifier (94.4% against 90.8%) for a 306 test dataset for seam defect against pseudo defect for rod surface.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Jia, H., Murphey, Y. L., Shi, J., & Chang, T.-S.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- OG Technologies (United States) (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2004. ICPR 2004.
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 239-242 Vol.3
- ISSN
- 1041-3278 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4250878893
- Cited by
- 174
- References
- 8
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- FWCI
- 2.99
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition/Proceedings/International Conference on Pattern Recognition (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering › Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Non-Destructive Testing Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring
- Keywords
- surface defect detection, rolled steel, real-time visual inspection, support vector machine, feature extraction, steel quality control, image processing
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