Affiliation:
1. Xi'an Shiyou University
Abstract
Abstract
Aiming at the problems of low target detection accuracy and high leakage rate of the current traditional weld surface defect detection methods and existing detection models, an improved YOLOv7 pipeline weld surface defect detection model is proposed to improve detection results. In the improved model, a Le-HorBlock module is designed, and it is introduced into the back of fourth CBS module of the backbone network, which preserves the characteristics of high-order information by realizing second-order spatial interaction, thus enhancing the ability of the network to extract features in weld defect images. The coordinate attention (CoordAtt) block is introduced to enhance the representation ability of target features, suppress interference. The CIoU loss function in YOLOv7 network model is replaced by the SIoU, so as to optimize the loss function, reduce the freedom of the loss function, and accelerate convergence. And a new large-scale pipeline weld surface defect dataset containing 2000 images of pipeline welds with weld defects is used in the proposed model. In the experimental comparison, the improved YOLOv7 network model has greatly improved the missed detection rate compared with the original network. The experimental results show that the improved YOLOv7 network model mAP@0.5 can reach 78.9%, which is 16.2% higher than the original model, and the detection effect is better than the original network and other classical target detection networks.
Publisher
Research Square Platform LLC
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