Infrared and Laser Engineering, Volume. 54, Issue 7, 20250035(2025)

Visual inspection of surface crack morphology of low-contrast coatings based on improved U-net

Shaohua CHEN1,2, Shida ZHANG1,2, Jiaojiao REN1,2, Jian GU1,2, and Lijuan LI1,2
Author Affiliations
  • 1Key Laboratory of Photoelectric Measurement and Optical Information Transmission Technology of Ministry of Education, School of Opto-Electronic Engineering, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Changchun 130022, China
  • 2Zhongshan Institute of Changchun University of Science and Technology, Zhongshan 528400, China
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    (a) Image collection schematic diagram; (b) Experimental device platform
    (a) High lighting schematic; (b) Low lighting schematic
    (a) Image of coating surface cracks; (b) Image of local cracks under microscope
    Comparison of low-recognition crack areas between 15°-60°. (a) 15°; (b) 30°; (c) 45°; (d) 60°
    Relationship between ray incidence angle and image contrast
    Image preprocessing flow chart
    Different image preprocessing methods. (a) Wavelet reconstruction; (b) Threshold segmentation; (c) Edge detection; (d) Proposed method
    (a) Original image and three-dimensional gray image; (b) Preprocessed image and three-bit gray image
    Data sets classification
    Flow chart of detection algorithm
    Improved U-net network structure diagram
    Schematic diagram of CBAM structure
    Schematic diagram of Depthwise over-parameterized convolution structure
    (a) Positive and negative mark masks; (b) Accuracy confusion matrix
    (a) Loss value change graph; (b) Accuracy change graph
    Training set segmentation results, each model is: (a) GT; (b) Op-U-net; (c) U-net; (d) Do-U-net; (e) Att-U-net; (f) Att-Do-U-net; (g) Reference[26]; (h) Reference[27]
    Independent test set segmentation results, each model is: (a) GT; (b) Op-U-net; (c) U-net; (d) Do-U-net; (e) Att-U-net; (f) Att-Do-U-net; (g) Reference[26]; (h) Reference[27]
    Comparison of segmentation results
    • Table 1. Average Dice, SSIM, Acc and uptime of each network

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      Table 1. Average Dice, SSIM, Acc and uptime of each network

      Network modelDiceSSIMAccRunning time/ms
      Op-U-net0.6470.6470.621107
      U-net0.6740.7080.662125
      Do-U-net0.7350.7830.753198
      Att-U-net0.8330.8110.858215
      Att-Do-U-net0.8620.8920.901261
    • Table 2. Quantitative evaluation of segmentation performance on each model dataset

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      Table 2. Quantitative evaluation of segmentation performance on each model dataset

      Network modelRecallDiceIoUMIoU
      Op-U-net0.7110.6520.4430.532
      U-net0.7320.6430.5220.614
      Do-U-net0.7640.7150.6470.663
      Att-U-net0.7860.8170.6720.697
      Att-Do-U-net0.8340.8410.7310.756
      Reference[26]0.7970.7660.6980.714
      Reference[27]0.8120.8030.7020.725
    • Table 3. Crack classification inspection results of order of magnitude

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      Table 3. Crack classification inspection results of order of magnitude

      Data set<4.8 μm4.8-9.6 μm9.6-14.4 μm>14.4 μm
      NumberDetection rateNumberDetection rateNumberDetection rateNumberDetection rate
      Group 800%315%1995%20100%
      Group 900%525%1890%20100%
      Group 1000%420%20100%20100%
      Group 1300%315%1995%20100%
      Group 1400%210%1890%20100%
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    Paper Information

    Category: Infrared

    Received: Jan. 13, 2025

    Accepted: --

    Published Online: Aug. 29, 2025

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    DOI:10.3788/IRLA20250035

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