Pixel-Wise Defect Detection by CNNs without Manually Labeled Training Data

In machine learning driven surface inspection one often faces the issue that defects to be detected are difficult to make available for training, especially when pixel-wise labeling is required. Therefore, supervised approaches are not feasible in many cases. In this paper, this issue is circumvente...

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Main Authors: M. Haselmann, D. P. Gruber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2019-05-01
Series:Applied Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08839514.2019.1583862
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Summary:In machine learning driven surface inspection one often faces the issue that defects to be detected are difficult to make available for training, especially when pixel-wise labeling is required. Therefore, supervised approaches are not feasible in many cases. In this paper, this issue is circumvented by injecting synthetized defects into fault-free surface images. In this way, a fully convolutional neural network was trained for pixel-accurate defect detection on decorated plastic parts, reaching a pixel-wise PRC score of 78% compared to 8% that was reached by a state-of-the-art unsupervised anomaly detection method. In addition, it is demonstrated that a similarly good performance can be reached even when the network is trained on only five fault-free parts.
ISSN:0883-9514
1087-6545