Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, Volume. 62, Issue 6, 0615013(2025)

Carbon Fiber Defect Detection Based on Terahertz Technology and YOLOv5s

Leijun Xu, Yafei Zhou, Jianfeng Chen, and Xue Bai*
Author Affiliations
  • School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, Jiangsu , China
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    Figures & Tables(14)
    Overall physical picture of terahertz detection system
    Scan results
    Schematic of polarization direction of terahertz electric field and fiber direction
    Imaging effects of single-layer samples with different angles
    Examples of defects in different types of carbon fibers
    Data amplification flow chart
    Improved YOLOv5s structure diagram
    CBAM network structure
    Accuracy metrics for two models
    Performance comparison of different models
    • Table 1. Experimental environment configuration

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      Table 1. Experimental environment configuration

      NameParameter
      SystemWindows 10
      Operational memory16 GB
      Graphics processing unitNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Ti
      Environment configurationPython 3.8+PyTorch 1.9.0+CUDA 11.6
    • Table 2. Comparison of detection effects of different models

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      Table 2. Comparison of detection effects of different models

      ItemInclusion 1Inclusion 2HoleTear 1Tear 2
      Original image
      YOLOv5s
      YOLOv5s-SMALL-CBAM-SIoU
    • Table 3. Results of ablation experiment

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      Table 3. Results of ablation experiment

      ModelNumber of parameters /106P /%R /%mAP@0.5 /%Detection time /ms
      YOLOv5s7.01881.777.884.725.236
      YOLOv5s-SMALL7.16291.477.389.027.919
      YOLOv5s-SMALL-CBAM7.22290.084.991.230.863
      YOLOv5s-SMALL-CBAM-SIoU7.22292.380.891.529.414
    • Table 4. Comparison of detection results of different models

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      Table 4. Comparison of detection results of different models

      ModelAP /%mAP@0.5 /%Number of parameters /106Detection time /ms
      InclusionHoleTear
      YOLOv5n85.481.867.478.21.76815.156
      YOLOv5s92.893.268.284.77.01825.236
      YOLOv792.489.989.390.537.20538.325
      YOLOv8n89.384.274.382.63.15218.847
      YOLOv8s90.687.888.789.011.13732.631
      YOLOv5s-SMALL-CBAM-SIoU93.593.088.191.57.22229.414
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    Leijun Xu, Yafei Zhou, Jianfeng Chen, Xue Bai. Carbon Fiber Defect Detection Based on Terahertz Technology and YOLOv5s[J]. Laser & Optoelectronics Progress, 2025, 62(6): 0615013

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    Paper Information

    Category: Machine Vision

    Received: Jul. 12, 2024

    Accepted: Sep. 5, 2024

    Published Online: Mar. 6, 2025

    The Author Email: Xue Bai (baixue@ujs.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.3788/LOP241675

    CSTR:32186.14.LOP241675

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