面向带钢表面小目标缺陷检测的改进YOLOv7算法

Improved YOLOv7 algorithm for small target defect detection on strip steel surface

带钢表面小目标缺陷检测是工业质检领域的研究热点。针对热轧带钢表面缺陷检测任务中小目标缺陷易产生漏检的问题,文章提出一种改进的YOLOv7算法。在骨干网络中融入通道空间注意力模块(convolutional block attention module,CBAM)和可重参数化卷积模块,以提升小目标特征的提取效率;采用改进的双向特征金字塔网络(bi-directional feature pyramid network,BiFPN)颈部网络替换原有的路径聚合网络(path aggregation network,PANet)颈部网络,实现对小目标缺陷特征的高效提纯;采用解耦检测头进行检测结果输出,使网络在训练时进一步收敛至更高精度。实验结果表明,改进后的YOLOv7算法在小目标带钢缺陷检测场景下检测精度领先YOLOv7算法4.3 AP50精度,领先YOLOv6算法5.0 AP50精度,领先YOLOX算法4.8 AP50精度,说明该算法可以较好地应用于小目标带钢缺陷检测。

The detection of small target defects on the surface of hot rolled strip steel is a hot research topic in the field of industrial quality inspection.An improved YOLOv7 algorithm is proposed for the problem of small target defects prone to miss detection in hot rolled strip steel surface defect inspection tasks.Convolutional block attention module(CBAM)module and RepConv module are incorporated in the backbone network to improve the efficiency of small target feature extraction.The original path aggregation network(PANet)neck network is replaced by the improved bi-directional feature pyramid network(BiFPN)neck network to achieve efficient purification of small target defect features.Decoupled detection heads are used for detection result output,so that the network can further converge to higher accuracy during training.Finally,it is shown experimentally that the improved YOLOv7 is ahead of YOLOv7 algorithm by 4.3 AP50 accuracy,ahead of YOLOv6 algorithm by 5.0 AP50 accuracy and ahead of YOLOX algorithm by 4.8 AP50 accuracy in detecting defects in small target hot rolled strip steel detection scenarios.The proposed algorithm can be better applied to small target strip steel defect detection.