Metal surface defect segmentation can play an important role in dealing with the issue of quality control during the production and manufacturing stages. There are still two major challenges in industrial applications. One is the case that the number of metal surface defect samples is severely insufficient, and the other is that the most existing algorithms can only be used for specific surface defects and it is difficult to generalize to other metal surfaces. In this work, a theory of few-shot metal generic surface defect segmentation is introduced to solve these challenges. Simultaneously, the Triplet-Graph Reasoning Network (TGRNet) and a novel dataset Surface Defects- 4 ⁱ are proposed to achieve this theory. In our TGRNet, the surface defect triplet (including triplet encoder and trip loss) is proposed and is used to segment background and defect area, respectively. Through triplet, the few-shot metal surface defect segmentation problem is transformed into few-shot semantic segmentation problem of defect area and background area. For few-shot semantic segmentation, we propose a method of multi-graph reasoning to explore the similarity relationship between different images. And to improve segmentation performance in the industrial scene, an adaptive auxiliary prediction module is proposed. For Surface Defects- 4 ⁱ , it includes multiple categories of metal surface defect images to verify the generalization performance of our TGRNet and adds the nonmetal categories (leather and tile) as extensions. Through extensive comparative experiments and ablation experiments, it is proved that our architecture can achieve state-of-the-art results.

RGB salient object detection (SOD) has made great progress. However, the performance of this single-modal salient object detection will be significantly decreased when encountering some challenging scenes, such as low light or darkness. To deal with the above challenges, thermal infrared (T) image is introduced into the salient object detection. This fused modal is called RGB-T salient object detection. To achieve deep mining of the unique characteristics of single modal and the full integration of cross-modality information, a novel Cross-Guided Fusion Network (CGFNet) for RGB-T salient object detection is proposed. Specifically, a Cross-Scale Alternate Guiding Fusion (CSAGF) module is proposed to mine the high-level semantic information and provide global context support. Subsequently, we design a Guidance Fusion Module (GFM) to achieve sufficient cross-modality fusion by using single modal as the main guidance and the other modal as auxiliary. Finally, the Cross-Guided Fusion Module (CGFM) is presented and serves as the main decoding block. And each decoding block is consists of two parts with two modalities information of each being the main guidance, i.e., cross-shared Cross-Level Enhancement (CLE) and Global Auxiliary Enhancement (GAE). The main difference between the two parts is that the GFM using different modalities as the main guide. The comprehensive experimental results prove that our method achieves better performance than the state-of-the-art salient detection methods. The source code has released at: https://github.com/wangjie0825/CGFNet.git .

Vision-based measurements technology has been widely applied in the quality monitoring of various products. However, most of the existing studies only focus on the defect detection methods using a single-modal image (RGB image or Thermal Infrared image). In order to detect surface and internal defects more comprehensively, this paper provides a potential defect detection technology introducing the RGB-Thermal infrared salient object detection (RGB-T SOD) into vision-based measurements. A novel information flow fusion network (IFFNet) method is proposed for the RGB-T cross-modal images. The proposed IFFNet consists of an information filtering module and a novel information flow paradigm. Validation on three available RGB-T salient object detection datasets shows that our proposed method performs more competitive than the state-of-the-art methods. For the key evaluation metric W_F, the experimental results of our method are 0.849, 0.912 and 0.856 on VT821, VT1000 and VT5000 datasets, respectively.

As an important computer vision technique, image segmentation has been widely used in various tasks. However, in some extreme cases, the insufficient illumination would result in a great impact on the performance of the model. So more and more fully supervised methods use multi-modal images as their input. The dense annotated large datasets are difficult to obtain, but the few-shot methods still can have satisfactory results with few pixel-annotated samples. Therefore, we propose the Visible-Depth-Thermal (three-modal) images few-shot semantic segmentation method. It utilizes the homogeneous information of three-modal images and the complementary information of different modal images, which can improve the performance of few-shot segmentation tasks. We constructed a novel indoor dataset VDT-2048-5ⁱ for the three-modal images few-shot semantic segmentation task. We also proposed a Self-Enhanced Mixed Attention Network (SEMANet), which consists of a Self-Enhanced module (SE) and a Mixed Attention module (MA). The SE module amplifies the difference between the different kinds of features and strengthens the weak connection for the foreground features. The MA module fuses the three-modal feature to obtain a better feature. Compared with the most advanced methods before, our model improves mIoU by 3.8% and 3.3% in 1-shot and 5-shot settings, respectively, which achieves state-of-the-art performance. In the future, we will solve failure cases by obtaining more discriminative and robust feature representations, and explore achieving high performance with fewer parameters and computational costs.