Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 52, Issue 5, 250032(2025)

Steel surface defect detection based on YOLOv8-SOE

Yujie Ma1,2, Chuqing Cao1,2、*, and Jing Zhang2
Author Affiliations
  • 1School of Computer and Information, Anhui Polytechnic University, Wuhu, Anhui 241000, China
  • 2Yangtze River Delta HIT Robot Technology Research Institute, Wuhu, Anhui 241000, China
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    Figures & Tables(16)
    YOLOv8-SOE model structure diagram
    FSCConv structure diagram
    Omni-Kernel structure diagram
    CSP-OK structure diagram
    Role of angular cost in loss function
    Sample diagram of steel surface defects
    Feature heatmap. (a) Original image; (b) YOLOv8n feature heatmap; (c) YOLOv8-SOE feature heatmap
    Sample images after brightness adjustment
    (a) Sample images processed by Gaussian noise;(b) Sample images after Gaussian blur processing
    • Table 1. Experiment results on FSCConv at different positions

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      Table 1. Experiment results on FSCConv at different positions

      SchemePrecisionRecallFLOPs/GFPSmAP/%
      Baseline model0.7590.7228.1218.275.3
      A0.8270.67711.6112.277.0
      B0.7540.7689.1187.979.4
    • Table 2. Experiment results on CSP-OK module at different positions

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      Table 2. Experiment results on CSP-OK module at different positions

      SchemePrecisionRecallFLOPs/GFPSmAP/%
      Baseline model0.7590.7228.1218.275.3
      C0.7660.77919.9118.879.1
      D0.7620.7439.8116.679.1
    • Table 3. Results of ablation experiments

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      Table 3. Results of ablation experiments

      FSCConvCSP-OKSIoUPrecisionRecallFLOPs/GFPSmAP/%rm/%rf/%
      0.7590.7228.1218.275.327.3321.78
      0.7600.7629.1185.379.226.1821.40
      0.7540.7689.1187.979.424.8920.48
      0.7620.7439.8116.679.125.7223.79
      0.7310.7869.8137.279.321.5826.89
      0.7380.7618.1215.777.423.8826.21
      0.7830.74611.8164.080.424.9319.41
      0.7390.76711.8172.080.721.4823.79
    • Table 4. Results of comparative experiments

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      Table 4. Results of comparative experiments

      ModelAP/%FLOPs/GFPSmAP/%
      CrInPaPsRsSc
      Faster-RCNN37.284.189.782.372.793.2134.034.20076.5
      RT-DETR44.577.989.067.556.192.257.048.10072.5
      YOLOv5s53.479.893.281.151.596.015.874.50575.8
      YOLOv757.284.691.184.954.893.3103.265.79077.7
      YOLOX30.277.585.275.239.088.813.3243.20066.6
      YOLOv8n44.175.791.982.761.096.38.1218.20075.3
      YOLOv10n42.278.288.976.955.386.56.5192.50071.3
      GBS-YOLOv7t[24]32.769.692.496.557.788.6104.172.9
      PIC2f-YOLO[25]10.68078.0
      RFB-YOLOv5-E[26]52.175.595.597.362.392.422.412279.2
      Ref. [27]39.586.092.178.962.685.312.274.1
      Ours60.085.693.184.862.298.211.8172.080.7
    • Table 5. Comparative experimental results under different lighting environments

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      Table 5. Comparative experimental results under different lighting environments

      DatasetModelPrecisionRecallmAP/%
      NEU-DETYOLOv8n0.7590.72275.3
      Ours0.7390.76780.7
      NEU-DET-brightnessYOLOv8n0.7300.67274.9
      Ours0.7570.74579.6
    • Table 6. Comparative experimental results in fuzzy and noisy environments

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      Table 6. Comparative experimental results in fuzzy and noisy environments

      DatasetModelPrecisionRecallmAP/%
      NEU-DETYOLOv8n0.7590.72275.3
      Ours0.7390.76780.7
      NEU-DET-augmentedYOLOv8n0.6440.68872.7
      Ours0.7890.72678.0
    • Table 7. Comparative experiment results on VOC2012 dataset

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      Table 7. Comparative experiment results on VOC2012 dataset

      ModelPercisionRecallmAP/%
      YOLOv5s0.7240.64668.2
      YOLOX0.7150.60861.6
      YOLOv10n0.7020.53660.3
      YOLOv8n0.6890.56963.0
      Ours0.7540.62169.4
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    Category: Article

    Received: Feb. 13, 2025

    Accepted: Apr. 3, 2025

    Published Online: Jul. 18, 2025

    The Author Email: Chuqing Cao (曹雏清)

    DOI:10.12086/oee.2025.250032

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