Currently, analyzing the microscopic image of cotton fiber cross-section is the most accurate and effective way to measure its grade of maturity and then evaluate the quality of cotton samples. However, existing methods cannot extract the edge of the cross-section intact, which will affect the measurement accuracy of maturity grade. In this paper, a new edge detection algorithm that is based on the RCF convolutional neural network (CNN) is proposed. For the microscopic image dataset of the cotton fiber cross-section constructed in this paper, the original RCF was firstly used to extract the edge of the cotton fiber cross-section in the image. After analyzing the output images of RCF in each convolution stage, the following two conclusions are drawn: (1) the shallow layers contain a lot of important edge information of the cotton fiber cross-section; (2) because the size of the cotton fiber cross-section in the image is relatively small and the receptive field of the convolutional layer gradually increases with the deepening of the number of layers, the edge information detected by the deeper layers becomes increasingly coarse. In view of the above two points, the following improvements are proposed in this paper: (1) modify the network supervision model and loss calculation structure; (2) the dilated convolution in the deeper layers is removed; therefore, the receptive field in the deeper layers is reduced to adapt to the detection of small objects. The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively improve the accuracy of edge extraction of cotton fiber cross-section.
The existing edge detection networks still have problems such as missing edges and excessive noise in complex natural scenes. Therefore, an edge detection network with multi-depth feature enhancement and top-level information guidance is proposed. First, UNet++ is used as the backbone network to extract features of different depths, and the edges of different scales are made more complete by feature superposition. Then, a feature enhancement module is added after the side output of each convolution layer to increase the receptive field and enhance the multi-scale information by introducing the dilated convolution. Finally, a top-level information guidance module is designed to enhance the edge detection effect by introducing top-level semantic features into jump connection. The experimental results show that training on the three datasets of BSDS500, NYUDv2 and Multicue has achieved good results. On the BSDS500 dataset, the ODS, OIS and AP of this network reach 0.821, 0.839 and 0.869 respectively, which is generally higher than the existing edge detection networks. Moreover, the result has less noise and the subjective effect is closer to the ground truth.
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