Vol. 20 No. 1 (2023): Journal of Non Destructive Testing and Evaluation (JNDE), March 2023
Research Papers

Neural Network Based Automatic Defect Detection in Infrared Thermography

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  • Geetika Dua,
  • Pranav Yogesh Mahajan,
  • Aneesh Bajwa,
  • Vanita Arora
Geetika Dua
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala.147004
Pranav Yogesh Mahajan
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala.147004
Aneesh Bajwa
Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala.147004
Vanita Arora
Indian Institute of Information Technology Una, Vill. Saloh, Teh. Haroli, Distt. Una Himachal Pradesh, India-177209

Published 12-03-2023

Keywords

  • Defect detection,
  • Gabor wavelet,
  • Gabor Filter,
  • feed forward neural network classifier

How to Cite

Dua, G., Mahajan, P. Y., Bajwa, A., & Arora, V. (2023). Neural Network Based Automatic Defect Detection in Infrared Thermography. Journal of Non-Destructive Testing and Evaluation (JNDE), 20(1), 58–63. Retrieved from https://jnde.isnt.in/index.php/JNDE/article/view/33

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Abstract

Early, accurate, and automatic detection of defects is an essential aspect of quality improvement. This paper employs a classification-based automatic defect detection method using Gabor filter features. The thermal patterns of various defects are used to provide the primary information for defect detection. Considering the desirable characteristics of spatial locality and orientation selectivities of the Gabor filter, we design filters for extracting defect features from the thermogram. The feature vector based on Gabor filters is used as the classifier's input, a Feed forward neural network (FFNN) on a reduced feature subspace. A finite element method and experiment were adopted to simulate a Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) material with void holes as defects. The thermogram will be convolved with Gabor filters by multiplying the image by Gabor filters in the frequency domain. Features are a cell array containing the result of the convolution of the image with each of the forty Gabor filters. The input vector of the network will have large values, which means a large amount of computation. So we reduce the matrix size to one-third of its original size by deleting some rows and columns. This work aims to implement a classifier based on neural networks (Multi-layer Perceptron) to differentiate defect and non-defect patterns.

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