Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2023, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (5): 840-854.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2023.05.010

• Computer Science and Applications • Previous Articles    

Research on Pipe Sorting Based on Improved Mask R-CNN Using Feature Fusion and Region Generation Network

HAN Huiyan1,2,3, WU Weizhou1,2,3, WANG Wenjun1,2,3, HAN Xie1,2,3   

  1. 1. School of Computer Science and Technology, North University of China, Taiyuan 030051, Shanxi, China;
    2. Shanxi Key Laboratory of Machine Vision and Virtual Reality, Taiyuan 030051, Shanxi, China;
    3. Shanxi Province's Vision Information Processing and Intelligent Robot Engineering Research Center, Taiyuan 030051, Shanxi, China
  • Received:2022-07-18 Published:2023-09-28

Abstract: In order to solve the problems of difficulty in distinguishing various pipe fittings and interference of light and shadow on segmentation accuracy, a pipe fittings sorting algorithm based on improved Mask R-CNN is proposed. The feature fusion network is improved by incorporating low-level feature map, improving the recognition rate of small pipe fittings. The generation box of area growth network is modified according to the size ratio of pipe fitting, so to accelerate the convergence rate of the model. Introduction of the channel and space attention module enhances the identification accuracy of pipe fitting and mask effect. The improved Mask R-CNN is applied to the sorting task of four types of pipe fittings, demonstrating increased mAP and mRecall values for mask detection (1.5% and 1.7% improvement, respectively). The robot exhibits enhanced capabilities in discriminating the location, type and size of pipe fittings, thereby meeting the accuracy requirements of sorting pipe fittings in actual production.

Key words: pipes sorting, low-level feature, area generation network, mixed attention mechanism, instance segmentation

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