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A graph-based two-stage classification network for mobile screen defect inspection

用于手机屏缺陷检测的基于图的两阶段分类网络

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Defect inspection, also known as defect detection, is significant in mobile screen quality control. There are some challenging issues brought by the characteristics of screen defects, including the following: (1) the problem of interclass similarity and intraclass variation, (2) the difficulty in distinguishing low contrast, tiny-sized, or incomplete defects, and (3) the modeling of category dependencies for multi-label images. To solve these problems, a graph reasoning module, stacked on a classification module, is proposed to expand the feature dimension and improve low-quality image features by exploiting category-wise dependency, image-wise relations, and interactions between them. To further improve the classification performance, the classifier of the classification module is redesigned as a cosine similarity function. With the help of contrastive learning, the classification module can better initialize the category-wise graph of the reasoning module. Experiments on the mobile screen defect dataset show that our two-stage network achieves the following best performances: 97.7% accuracy and 97.3% F-measure. This proves that the proposed approach is effective in industrial applications.

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缺陷检测是手机屏质量控制的重要环节。手机屏缺陷的特性带来了一些具有挑战性的问题, 包括: (1)类间相似性和类内差异性; (2)低对比度、微小尺寸或不完整缺陷的识别带来的困难; (3)针对多标签图像的类别相关性建模。为了解决这些问题, 本文提出一种图推理模块, 它可以堆放在常规的分类模块上。该推理模块利用类别间的依赖性、图像间的关系以及类别图像之间的相互作用来扩展特征维度, 并且达到改进低质量图像特征的目的。为了进一步提高分类性能, 分类模块的分类器被设计为一个余弦相似度函数。在对比学习的帮助下, 分类模块可以更好地初始化推理模块的类别图。在手机屏缺陷数据集上的实验表明, 所提出的两阶段网络取得了最佳性能: 准确率为97.7%, F-measure为97.3%。这证明了本文所提出的方法在工业应用中是有效的。

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Correspondence to Meiqin Liu  (刘妹琴).

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Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2020AAA0108302) and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, China (No. xtr072022001)

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Chaofan ZHOU designed the research. Chaofan ZHOU and Meiqin LIU processed the data. Chaofan ZHOU drafted the paper. Senlin ZHANG helped organize the paper. Ping WEI and Badong CHEN revised and finalized the paper.

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Chaofan ZHOU, Meiqin LIU, Senlin ZHANG, Ping WEI, and Badong CHEN declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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Due to the nature of this research, participants of this study do not agree for mobile screen defect data to be shared publicly, so the supporting data are not available. The data used to validate the model generalization performance (i.e., the steel surface defect data) can be found on the web links given in this paper.

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Zhou, C., Liu, M., Zhang, S. et al. A graph-based two-stage classification network for mobile screen defect inspection. Front Inform Technol Electron Eng 24, 203–216 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.2200524

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