Open AccessFast semantic segmentation method for machine vision inspection based on a fewer-parameters atrous convolution neural network
Author(s) -
Jian Huang,
Guixiong Liu,
Binyuan He
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
plos one
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 332
ISSN - 1932-6203
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0246093
Subject(s) - artificial intelligence , computer science , segmentation , convolutional neural network , residual , pattern recognition (psychology) , pyramid (geometry) , pooling , machine vision , feature (linguistics) , feature extraction , computer vision , artificial neural network , convolution (computer science) , mathematics , algorithm , linguistics , philosophy , geometry
Owing to the recent development in deep learning, machine vision has been widely used in intelligent manufacturing equipment in multiple fields, including precision-manufacturing production lines and online product-quality inspection. This study aims at online Machine Vision Inspection, focusing on the method of online semantic segmentation under complex backgrounds. First, the fewer-parameters optimization of the atrous convolution architecture is studied. Atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) and residual network (ResNet) are selected as the basic architectures of η seg and η main , respectively, which indicate that the improved proportion of the participating input image feature is beneficial for improving the accuracy of feature extraction during the change of the number and dimension of feature maps. Second, this study proposes five modified ResNet residual building blocks, with the main path having a 3 × 3 convolution layer, 2 × 2 skip path, and pooling layer with l s = 2, which can improve the use of image features. Finally, the simulation experiments show that our modified structure can significantly decrease segmentation time T seg from 719 to 296 ms (decreased by 58.8%), with only a slight decrease in the intersection-over-union from 86.7% to 86.6%. The applicability of the proposed machine vision method was verified through the segmentation recognition of the China Yuan (CNY) for the 2019 version. Compared with the conventional method, the proposed model of semantic segmentation visual detection effectively reduces the detection time while ensuring the detection accuracy and has a significant effect of fewer-parameters optimization. This slows for the possibility of neural network detection on mobile terminals.