Physics-informed deep learning for surface defect detection on optical wedge plates: enhancing accuracy and generalization
摘要
To overcome low accuracy and poor generalization in detecting minute surface defects (Splashes, Scratches, Chipping) on optical wedge plates, this paper proposes a Swin-Unet model that incorporates physical characteristic information of the defects, designated as the PINN-Swin-Unet. The core innovations are twofold: First, leveraging the distinct physical responses of defects under varied spectra, a tri-band light source imaging system is employed to acquire images rich in physical features. These are integrated via a Physics-Informed Feature Extraction (PIFE) module into the skip connection layers of Swin-Unet and propagated to the encoder stage. Second, electromagnetic boundary conditions are incorporated as a physics-informed inductive bias. Instead of a direct analogy to electric field intensity, we model the image gradient as a proxy for the spatial variation of electromagnetic energy density (