Performance Enhancement of Ultrasonic Weld Defect Detection Network Based on Generative Data.

The lack of real defect data samples has become a challenging problem for the effective application of deep learning networks in ultrasound target detection. This paper proposes a data augmented generative adversarial network (DCSGAN) aimed at overcoming the scarcity of welding ultrasonic defect data in training target detection networks. This network utilizes bilinear interpolation to expand the real data sample space, facilitating the extraction of high-dimensional defect spatial features through deeper networks. By obtaining a mixed dataset of generative data and real data, training and testing experiments are conducted on the object detection network. The experimental results demonstrate that the data augmentation method proposed in this paper effectively enhances the detection rate of ultrasonic welding defects in the target detection network, which has reference significance for similar application scenarios of ultrasonic defect detection. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]