Automatic detection of surface defects on rolled steel using Computer Vision and Artificial Neural Networks
Abstract
This work addresses the problem of automated visual inspection of surface defects on rolled steel, by using Computer Vision and Artificial Neural Networks. In recent years, the increasing throughput in the steel industry has become the visual inspection a critical production bottleneck. In this scenario, to assure a high rolled steel quality, novel sensor-based technologies have been developed. Unlike most common techniques, which are frequently based on manual estimations that lead to significant time and financial constraints, we present an automatic system based on (i) image analysis techniques, such as, Hough Transform to classify three defects with well-defined geometric shapes: welding, clamp and identification hole and (ii) two well-known feature extraction techniques: Principal Component Analysis and Self-Organizing Maps to classify three defects with complex shapes, specifically, oxidation, exfoliation and waveform defect. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our system, we tested it on challenging real-world datasets, acquired in a rolling mill of the steel company ArcelorMittal. The system was successfully validated, achieving overall accuracy of 87% and demonstrating its high potential to be applied in real scenarios.
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- Authors
- Martins, L. A. O., Padua, F. L. C., & Almeida, P. E. M.
- Affiliations
- Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais (BR)
- ORCID
- Almeida, Paulo E.M.
- Venue
- IECON 2010 - 36th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2010-11
- Pages
- 1081-1086
- ISSN
- 1553-572X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1914562277
- Cited by
- 101
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 8.11
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON) (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais
- 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
- rolled steel, surface defect detection, automated visual inspection, Hough transform, weld defects, principal component analysis, self-organizing maps, steel rolling mill
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