Recognition of Defective Mineral Wool Using Pruned ResNet Models

11/01/2022
by   Mehdi Rafiei, et al.
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Mineral wool production is a non-linear process that makes it hard to control the final quality. Therefore, having a non-destructive method to analyze the product quality and recognize defective products is critical. For this purpose, we developed a visual quality control system for mineral wool. X-ray images of wool specimens were collected to create a training set of defective and non-defective samples. Afterward, we developed several recognition models based on the ResNet architecture to find the most efficient model. In order to have a light-weight and fast inference model for real-life applicability, two structural pruning methods are applied to the classifiers. Considering the low quantity of the dataset, cross-validation and augmentation methods are used during the training. As a result, we obtained a model with more than 98 accuracy, which in comparison to the current procedure used at the company, it can recognize 20

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