Building a High Accuracy Transfer Learning-Based Quality Inspection System at Low Costs

      Products’ quality inspection is an important stage in every production route, in which the quality of the produced goods is estimated and compared with the desired specifications. With traditional inspection, the process rely on manual methods that generates various costs and large time consu...

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Autores principales: Ahmed Najah, Faiz F. Mustafa, Wisam S. Hacham
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Publicado: Al-Khwarizmi College of Engineering – University of Baghdad 2021
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:d11bb6d6637943acbc9e4081d9b86fa52021-12-02T17:29:35ZBuilding a High Accuracy Transfer Learning-Based Quality Inspection System at Low Costs10.22153/kej.2021.12.0011818-11712312-0789https://doaj.org/article/d11bb6d6637943acbc9e4081d9b86fa52021-03-01T00:00:00Zhttps://alkej.uobaghdad.edu.iq/index.php/alkej/article/view/733https://doaj.org/toc/1818-1171https://doaj.org/toc/2312-0789       Products’ quality inspection is an important stage in every production route, in which the quality of the produced goods is estimated and compared with the desired specifications. With traditional inspection, the process rely on manual methods that generates various costs and large time consumption. On the contrary, today’s inspection systems that use modern techniques like computer vision, are more accurate and efficient. However, the amount of work needed to build a computer vision system based on classic techniques is relatively large, due to the issue of manually selecting and extracting features from digital images, which also produces labor costs for the system engineers.       In this research, we present an adopted approach based on convolutional neural networks to design a system for quality inspection with high level of accuracy and low cost. The system is designed using transfer learning to transfer layers from a previously trained model and a fully connected neural network to classify the product’s condition into healthy or damaged. Helical gears were used as the inspected object and three cameras with differing resolutions were used to evaluate the system with colored and grayscale images. Experimental results showed high accuracy levels with colored images and even higher accuracies with grayscale images at every resolution, emphasizing the ability to build an inspection system at low costs, ease of construction and automatic extraction of image features. Ahmed NajahFaiz F. MustafaWisam S. HachamAl-Khwarizmi College of Engineering – University of BaghdadarticleChemical engineeringTP155-156Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)TA1-2040ENAl-Khawarizmi Engineering Journal, Vol 17, Iss 1 (2021)
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topic Chemical engineering
TP155-156
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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TP155-156
Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
TA1-2040
Ahmed Najah
Faiz F. Mustafa
Wisam S. Hacham
Building a High Accuracy Transfer Learning-Based Quality Inspection System at Low Costs
description       Products’ quality inspection is an important stage in every production route, in which the quality of the produced goods is estimated and compared with the desired specifications. With traditional inspection, the process rely on manual methods that generates various costs and large time consumption. On the contrary, today’s inspection systems that use modern techniques like computer vision, are more accurate and efficient. However, the amount of work needed to build a computer vision system based on classic techniques is relatively large, due to the issue of manually selecting and extracting features from digital images, which also produces labor costs for the system engineers.       In this research, we present an adopted approach based on convolutional neural networks to design a system for quality inspection with high level of accuracy and low cost. The system is designed using transfer learning to transfer layers from a previously trained model and a fully connected neural network to classify the product’s condition into healthy or damaged. Helical gears were used as the inspected object and three cameras with differing resolutions were used to evaluate the system with colored and grayscale images. Experimental results showed high accuracy levels with colored images and even higher accuracies with grayscale images at every resolution, emphasizing the ability to build an inspection system at low costs, ease of construction and automatic extraction of image features.
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