4.6 Article

CPAM: Cross Patch Attention Module for Complex Texture Tile Block Defect Detection

Journal

APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 12, Issue 23, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app122311959

Keywords

attention mechanism; deep learning; tile; defect detection

Funding

  1. Guangdong Province Key Field RD Program [2021B0101410002, 2020B0404030001]
  2. National Natural Science Foundation of China [62106048]
  3. Foshan City Key Field Science and Technology Research Project [2020001006297]
  4. Shunde District Core Technology Research Project [2030218000174]

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This paper proposes a new attention mechanism (CPAM) to address the issue of regional bias in tile block defect detection. By dividing feature information into patches, CPAM can successfully distinguish different regional features and linearly connect these patches in two spatial directions, thereby improving the performance of the model.
Due to the little variation in defect points, tile block defect detection typically detects subtle defects in large-format images, allowing defective characteristics to be displayed regionally. Traditional convolutional neural network architectures that extract regional features take into account the connection between regional features simply, resulting in the presence of region-specific bias, which makes tile block defect detection still a challenging task. To address this challenge, this paper divides feature information into patches that can represent different regional features. Additionally, the relationship between different patches and tile block defects is studied; as a result, this paper proposes a new attention mechanism called the Cross Patch Attention Module (CPAM). Since the regional performance of patches is consistent with the tile block defect characteristics, CPAM can distinguish various regional features by patches. Then, in order to create reliable one-dimensional patch information, CPAM provides a method to connect patches linearly in two spatial directions. This takes into account the correlation of adjacent patches in various spatial directions. Finally, by extracting the regional characteristics of patches, CPAM can successfully assist the model in distinguishing the importance of different patches. The experimental results demonstrate that CPAM has excellent performance for tile block defect detection, and plugging CPAM into different end-to-end models can have a good gain effect, which can effectively and stably help the model to complete the task of tile block defect detection.

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