An efficient treatment method of scrap intelligent rating based on machine vision

Scrap steel is a green resource that can substitute iron ore and is an important raw material in the modern steel industry. To address the many issues such as high risk, low accuracy in grading, and the susceptibility to questioning fairness in the manual inspection process of scrap steel, we propose an efficient intelligent scrap steel classification method based on machine vision, achieving accurate classification and grading of nine types of scrap steel. Firstly, a scrap steel quality inspection system was established at the scrap steel recycling site, where images of various types of scrap steel were collected and various image processing methods were employed for preprocessing, leading to the establishment of scrap steel datasets and carriage segmentation datasets. Secondly, a carriage segmentation model was built based on image segmentation technology to significantly reduce the influence of complex backgrounds of scrap steel images on classification and grading. Subsequently, an intelligent scrap steel classification grading model was established based on the attention mechanism in deep learning, combined with the Spatially Adaptive Heterogeneous Image Slicing (SAHI) image slicing prediction method, achieving accurate classification and grading of scrap steel under complex backgrounds and high-resolution images in scrap steel recycling. Finally, we conducted tests on the proposed method. Experimental results demonstrate the good generalization of our proposed method, accurately detecting various types of scrap steel, meeting the requirements of accuracy, real-time performance, and good generalization in scrap steel recycling classification and grading, achieving initial industrial application, and exhibiting significant advantages compared to traditional manual scrap steel quality inspection.