Damage Detection for Conveyor Belt Surface Based on Conditional Cycle Generative Adversarial Network

Xiaoqiang Guo, Xinhua Liu, Grzegorz Królczyk, Maciej Sulowicz, Adam Glowacz, Paolo Gardoni, Zhixiong Li

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Abstract

The belt conveyor is an essential piece of equipment in coal mining for coal transportation, and its stable operation is key to efficient production. Belt surface of the conveyor is vulnerable to foreign bodies which can be extremely destructive. In the past decades, much research and numerous approaches to inspect belt status have been proposed, and machine learning-based non-destructive testing (NDT) methods are becoming more and more popular. Deep learning (DL), as a branch of machine learning (ML), has been widely applied in data mining, natural language processing, pattern recognition, image processing, etc. Generative adversarial networks (GAN) are one of the deep learning methods based on generative models and have been proved to be of great potential. In this paper, a novel multi-classification conditional CycleGAN (MCC-CycleGAN) method is proposed to generate and discriminate surface images of damages of conveyor belt. A novel architecture of improved CycleGAN is designed to enhance the classification performance using a limited capacity images dataset. Experimental results show that the proposed deep learning network can generate realistic belt surface images with defects and efficiently classify different damaged images of the conveyor belt surface.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number3485
JournalSensors
Volume22
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - May 1 2022

Keywords

  • damage detection
  • conditional CycleGAN
  • incremental image fusion
  • transfer learning

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Analytical Chemistry
  • Information Systems
  • Instrumentation
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Biochemistry

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