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ACTA AERONAUTICAET ASTRONAUTICA SINICA ›› 2022, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (4): 524961-524961.doi: 10.7527/S1000-6893.2021.24961

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Explainable deep learning method for laser welding defect detection

LIU Tianyuan1, ZHENG Hangbin1, YANG Changqi2, BAO Jinsong1, WANG Junliang1, GU Jun3   

  1. 1. Institute of Intelligent Manufacturing, College of Mechanical Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai 201600, China;
    2. Shanghai Spaceflight Precision Machinery Institute, Shanghai 201600, China;
    3. Shanghai Institute of Laser Technology, Shanghai 200235, China
  • Received:2020-11-11 Revised:2020-11-30 Published:2021-02-24
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China (51905091); Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities and Graduate Student Innovation Fund of Donghua University (CUSF-DH-D-2020053)

Abstract: Laser welding has a wide range of applications in the aerospace industry. Vision-based laser welding defect detection is crucial to the improvement of product quality. To overcome the problem of poor explainability in current deep learning-based laser welding defect detection methods, a method of Class Activation Mapping by Incorporating Multiscale Features (MSF-CAM) is proposed. In the training phase, VGG16 is used as the backbone network, and supervisory information is applied to multiple scales to facilitate learning of multiscale features. In the testing phase, the activation maps of the output categories on multiple scales are superimposed and used as the basis for the judgment by the model. Integration of multiscale features not only enhances explainability of the model, but also improves accuracy of laser welding defect detection. The test results show that the accuracy of MSF-CAM on the test set is 98.12% and the time used by the method to identify a single image is 8.28 ms. In addition, MSF-CAM can provide more understandable explanation for the decision-making basis of the model from the perspective of such primary features as edge and contour.

Key words: laser welding, defect recognition, deep learning, explainability, multiscale

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