Printed Circuit Boards Defect Detection Method Based on Improved Fully Convolutional Networks

Since printed circuit board (PCB) is the key to ensure the reliability of electronic equipment. Therefore, defect detection for PCB is a basic and necessary work. This paper proposes a PCB defect detection method based on an improved fully convolutional neural networks to detect four types of defects: spurs, mouse bites, short circuits and open circuits. The improved neural networks increase the receptive field and solve the problems of ordinary atrous convolution information loss of continuity by introducing the continuous atrous convolution module. At the same time, we introduce the improved skip layer after the upsampling layer to get the characteristics of multi-scale fusion, improve the resolution of the image. Due to the fewer levels of the whole networks, MobileNet-V2 networks model is adopted in the improved fully convolutional neural networks, which is compared with ResNet-50 and Vgg-16 networks model. Comparison the accuracy of four kinds of PCB classification defects, experimental results show that the improved fully convolutional neural networks based on MobileNet-V2 have an average recognition accuracy of 92.86% for four types of PCB defects, which is better than the ResNet-50 and Vgg-16 networks models, verifying the effectiveness of the PCB defect recognition classification. Moreover, experiments are carried out in a real environment to verify the feasibility of the proposed method.