An Image Generation Method of Unbalanced Ship Coating Defects Based on IGASEN-EMWGAN

During the process of ship coating, various defects will occur due to the improper operation by the workers, environmental changes, etc. The special characteristics of ship coating limit the amount of data and result in the problem of class imbalance, which is not conducive to ensuring the effectiveness of deep learning-based models. Therefore, a novel hybrid intelligent image generation algorithm called the IGASEN-EMWGAN model for ship painting defect images is proposed to tackle the aforementioned limitations in this paper. First, based on a subset of imbalanced ship painting defect image samples obtained by a bootstrap sampling algorithm, a batch of different base discriminators was trained independently with the algorithm parameter and sample perturbation method. Then, an improved genetic algorithm based on the simulated annealing algorithm is used to search for the optimal subset of base discriminators. Further, the IGASEN-EMWGAN model was constructed by fusing the base discriminators in this subset through a weighted integration strategy. Finally, the trained IGASEN-EMWGAN model is used to generate new defect images of the minority classes to obtain a balanced dataset of ship painting defects. The extensive experimental results are conducted on a real unbalanced ship coating defect database and show that, compared with the baselines, the values of the ID and FID scores are significantly improved by 4.92% and decreased by 7.29%, respectively, which prove the superior effectiveness of the proposed model in this paper.