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  • Materials Science
  • Computer Vision
  • Artificial Intelligence

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  • Accurate metallic surface defect identification is vital for manufacturing quality control, especially in the steel industry.
  • Existing methods face challenges in real-time detection of defects with varying morphologies and sizes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel, lightweight, and efficient deep learning architecture for real-time metallic surface defect detection.
  • To improve the accuracy and speed of defect identification, particularly for small or unusually shaped defects.

Main Methods:

  • A modified YOLOv7-tiny architecture was proposed, featuring an anchor-free detection head and logarithmic transformation for feature enhancement.
  • The backbone was replaced with MobileNetV3-large, and an Efficient Multi-Scale Attention (EMA) module was integrated.
  • A bidirectional feature pyramid network with adaptively spatial feature fusion (BAFPN) was used as the Head architecture.

Main Results:

  • The improved model demonstrated an average increase of 6.24% in mean average precision (mAP) across multiple datasets.
  • The system achieved an inference speed exceeding 90 frames per second (FPS), indicating real-time capability.
  • The enhancements effectively addressed missed detections of defects with extreme aspect ratios and improved detection of small defects.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed lightweight architecture significantly enhances real-time metallic surface defect detection.
  • The integration of anchor-free mechanisms, feature enhancement, attention modules, and BAFPN contributes to superior performance.
  • The method offers a promising solution for quality control in the manufacturing and steel industries.