An Autoencoder with Convolutional Neural Network for Surface Defect Detection on Cast Components
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Abstract
<p>There is unrealized potential in using automation to alleviate the visual inspection associated with non-destructive testing in manufacturing facilities. The identification of defects during the production can help avoid substantial manufacturing errors by indicating that preventative maintenance should be introduced. The use of an autoencoder for this application reduces the need to generate datasets for various defect types, instead only one training dataset would be needed. To address this, this paper proposes a Convolution Neural Network (CNN) autoencoder approach to detect surface defects on cast components during the production. The proposed method categorizes the data into damaged and undamaged components by clustering based on the loss associated with the reconstructed image. The average F1-score and accuracy from retraining the model 10 times was 89.14% and 88.52% respectively. Although previous studies have obtained higher metrics, they have focused their efforts on supervised training techniques where as this research proposes an unsupervised training method with results comparable to the previous studies.</p>
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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