Multi-class Classification Methods of Enhanced LS-TWSVM for Strip Steel Surface Defects

Considering strip steel surface defect samples, a multi-class classification method was proposed based on enhanced least squares twin support vector machines （ELS-TWSVMs） and binary tree. Firstly, pruning region samples center method with adjustable pruning scale was used to prune data samples. This method could reduce classifierr s training time and testing time. Secondly, ELS-TWSVM was proposed to classify the data samples. By introducing error variable contribution parameter and weight parameter, ELS-TWSVM could restrain the impact of noise sam- ples and have better classification accuracy. Finally, multi-class classification algorithms of ELS-TWSVM were pro- posed by combining ELS-TWSVM and complete binary tree. Some experiments were made on two-dimensional data- sets and strip steel surface defect datasets. The experiments showed that the multi-class classification methods of ELS-TWSVM had higher classification speed and accuracy for the datasets with large-scale, unbalanced and noise samples.

Multi-class classification method for strip steel surface defects based on support vector machine with adjustable hyper-sphere

Focusing on strip steel surface defects classification, a novel support vector machine with adjustable hyper-sphere （AHSVM） is formulated. Meanwhile, a new multi-class classification method is proposed. Originated from support vector data description, AHSVM adopts hyper-sphere to solve classification problem. AHSVM can obey two principles： the margin maximization and inner-class dispersion minimization. Moreover, the hyper-sphere of AHSVM is adjustable, which makes the final classification hyper-sphere optimal for training dataset. On the other hand, AHSVM is combined with binary tree to solve multi-class classification for steel surface defects. A scheme of samples pruning in mapped feature space is provided, which can reduce the number of training samples under the premise of classification accuracy, resulting in the improvements of classification speed. Finally, some testing experiments are done for eight types of strip steel surface defects. Experimental results show that multi-class AHSVM classifier exhibits satisfactory results in classification accuracy and efficiency.