Enhancing Battery Exterior Defect Inspection Accuracy Through Defect-Background Separated GAN Development

This paper aims to develop a defect-background separated generative adversarial network (GAN) using deep learning and GAN to enhance the accuracy of battery exterior defect inspection. In actual battery production lines, the occurrence rates of defects vary by defect type, making it challenging to create a large, uniform defect dataset due to the time required for defect acquisition. This leads to a reduction in the accuracy of battery exterior defect inspection. To construct a large, uniform defect dataset, this paper proposes a defect-background separated GAN based on the principles of GANs. The defect-background separated GAN performs effective defect and background separation learning by referring to the segmentation labeling of defects. Through dataset augmentation using the defect-background separated GAN, the performance quality of newly generated synthetic defect images has improved, and accuracy in battery exterior defect inspection can be enhanced through extensive dataset training. Experimental results show the lowest Fréchet inception distance score among various other methods for the battery exterior defect dataset, and it generates clear synthetic defects perceptible to the human eye. By training defect segmentation on this large, uniform defect dataset, an accuracy of 96.1% and an intersection over union value of 0.71 were achieved. Ultimately, applying this defect inspection network to the actual production line demonstrated a 72% improvement in time efficiency. This demonstrates the stability and robustness of the large, uniform defect dataset generated through the defect-background separated GAN.