Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Particleboard Images Based on Improved SRGAN

As an important forest product, particleboard can greatly save forestry resources and promote low-carbon development by reusing wood processing residues. The size of the entire particleboard is large, and there are problems with less image feature information and blurred defect outlines when obtaini...

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Main Authors: Wei Yu, Haiyan Zhou, Ying Liu, Yutu Yang, Yinxi Shen
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/9/1842
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description As an important forest product, particleboard can greatly save forestry resources and promote low-carbon development by reusing wood processing residues. The size of the entire particleboard is large, and there are problems with less image feature information and blurred defect outlines when obtaining the particleboard images. The super-resolution reconstruction technology can improve the quality of the particleboard surface images, making the defects clearer. In this study, the super-resolution dense attention generative adversarial network (SRDAGAN) model was improved to solve the problem that the super-resolution generative adversarial network (SRGAN) reconstructed image would produce artifacts and its performance needed to be improved. The Batch Normalization (BN) layer was removed, the convolutional block attention module (CBAM) was optimized to construct the dense block, and the dense blocks were constructed via a densely skip connection. Then, the corresponding 52,400 image blocks with high resolution and low resolution were trained, verified, and tested according to the ratio of 3:1:1. The model was comprehensively evaluated from the effect of image reconstruction and the three indexes of PSNR, SSIM, and LPIPS. It was found that compared with BICUBIC, SRGAN, and SWINIR, the PSNR index of SRDAGAN increased by 4.88 dB, 3.25 dB, and 2.68 dB, respectively; SSIM increased by 0.0507, 0.1122, and 0.0648, respectively; and LPIPS improved by 0.1948, 0.1065, and 0.0639, respectively. The reconstructed images not only had a clearer texture, but also had a more realistic expression of various features, and the performance of the model had been greatly improved. At the same time, this study also emphatically discussed the image reconstruction effect with defects. The result showed that the SRDAGAN proposed in this study can complete the super-resolution reconstruction of the particleboard images with high quality. In the future, it can also be further combined with defect detection for the actual production to improve the quality of forestry products and increase economic benefits.
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spelling doaj.art-875223b3fc5b4b68a0426c305caf64c92023-11-19T10:46:46ZengMDPI AGForests1999-49072023-09-01149184210.3390/f14091842Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Particleboard Images Based on Improved SRGANWei Yu0Haiyan Zhou1Ying Liu2Yutu Yang3Yinxi Shen4Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, ChinaJiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, ChinaJiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, ChinaJiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, ChinaJiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, College of Mechanical and Electronic Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, ChinaAs an important forest product, particleboard can greatly save forestry resources and promote low-carbon development by reusing wood processing residues. The size of the entire particleboard is large, and there are problems with less image feature information and blurred defect outlines when obtaining the particleboard images. The super-resolution reconstruction technology can improve the quality of the particleboard surface images, making the defects clearer. In this study, the super-resolution dense attention generative adversarial network (SRDAGAN) model was improved to solve the problem that the super-resolution generative adversarial network (SRGAN) reconstructed image would produce artifacts and its performance needed to be improved. The Batch Normalization (BN) layer was removed, the convolutional block attention module (CBAM) was optimized to construct the dense block, and the dense blocks were constructed via a densely skip connection. Then, the corresponding 52,400 image blocks with high resolution and low resolution were trained, verified, and tested according to the ratio of 3:1:1. The model was comprehensively evaluated from the effect of image reconstruction and the three indexes of PSNR, SSIM, and LPIPS. It was found that compared with BICUBIC, SRGAN, and SWINIR, the PSNR index of SRDAGAN increased by 4.88 dB, 3.25 dB, and 2.68 dB, respectively; SSIM increased by 0.0507, 0.1122, and 0.0648, respectively; and LPIPS improved by 0.1948, 0.1065, and 0.0639, respectively. The reconstructed images not only had a clearer texture, but also had a more realistic expression of various features, and the performance of the model had been greatly improved. At the same time, this study also emphatically discussed the image reconstruction effect with defects. The result showed that the SRDAGAN proposed in this study can complete the super-resolution reconstruction of the particleboard images with high quality. In the future, it can also be further combined with defect detection for the actual production to improve the quality of forestry products and increase economic benefits.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/9/1842particleboardsuper-resolution reconstructiongenerate adversarial networksdefect
spellingShingle Wei Yu
Haiyan Zhou
Ying Liu
Yutu Yang
Yinxi Shen
Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Particleboard Images Based on Improved SRGAN
Forests
particleboard
super-resolution reconstruction
generate adversarial networks
defect
title Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Particleboard Images Based on Improved SRGAN
title_full Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Particleboard Images Based on Improved SRGAN
title_fullStr Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Particleboard Images Based on Improved SRGAN
title_full_unstemmed Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Particleboard Images Based on Improved SRGAN
title_short Super-Resolution Reconstruction of Particleboard Images Based on Improved SRGAN
title_sort super resolution reconstruction of particleboard images based on improved srgan
topic particleboard
super-resolution reconstruction
generate adversarial networks
defect
url https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/14/9/1842
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