In collaboration with Frontec, which produces parts such as bolts and nuts for the automobile industry, Kyung Hee University and Benple Inc. develop and deploy AI system for automatic quality inspection of weld nuts. Various constraints to consider exist in adopting AI for the factory, such as response time and limited computing resources available. Our convolutional neural network (CNN) system using large-scale images must classify weld nuts within 0.2 seconds with accuracy over 95%. We designed Circular Hough Transform based preprocessing and an adjusted VGG (Visual Geometry Group) model. The system showed accuracy over 99% and response time of about 0.14 sec. We use TCP / IP protocol to communicate the embedded classification system with an existing vision inspector using LabVIEW. We suggest ways to develop and embed a deep learning framework in an existing manufacturing environment without a hardware change.

Structure-preserving image decomposition separates a given image into structure and texture by smoothing the image, simultaneously preserving or enhancing image edges. The well-studied problem of image decomposition is applied to various areas, such as image smoothing, detail enhancement, non-photorealistic rendering, image artistic rendering, and high-dynamic-range compression. In this paper, we propose a fast algorithm for structure-preserving image decomposition that adopts total variation (TV) minimization to the moving least squares (MLS) method with non-local weights, called structure adaptive TV (SATV) minimization. MLS with non-local weights provides high accuracy approximation that is robust to noise, and allows a fast convergence with TV regularization term. As a result, our proposed SATV preserves the dominant structure while flattening fine-scale details. The experimental results show that the SATV minimization algorithm provides faster and more robust image decomposition than the well-known previous approaches. We demonstrate the usefulness of our algorithm by presenting successful applications in image smoothing and detail enhancement.

In this paper, we present a novel edge-directed upsampling method based on radial basis function (RBF) interpolation. In order to remove artifacts such as blurred edges or blocking effects, we suggest a nonlinear method capable of taking edge information into account. The resampling evaluation is determined according to the edge orientation. The proposed scheme is as simple to implement as linear methods but it demonstrates improved visual quality by preserving the edge features better than the classical linear interpolation methods. The algorithm is compared with some well-known linear schemes as well as recently developed nonlinear schemes. The resulting images demonstrate the new algorithm's ability to magnify an image while preserving the edge features.