In bamboo strip surface defect detection, the bamboo strip defects have different shapes and messy imaging environment, and the existing target detection model based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) does not take advantage of the neural network when facing such specific data; moreover, the sources of bamboo strips are complicated and there exist other limited conditions, so that it is impossible to collect all types of data, resulting in a small amount of bamboo strip defect data that CNN cannot fully learn. To address these problems, a special detection network aiming at bamboo strip defects was proposed. The basic framework of the proposed network is CenterNet. In order to improve the detection performance of CenterNet in less bamboo strip defect data, an auxiliary detection module based on training from scratch was designed:when the network started training, the CenterNet part that uses the pre-training model was frozen, and the auxiliary detection module was trained from scratch according to the defect characteristics of the bamboo strips; when the loss of the auxiliary detection module stabilized, the module was intergrated with the pre-trained main part by a connection method of attention mechanism. The proposed detection network was trained and tested on the same training sets with CenterNet and YOLO v3 which is currently commonly used in industrial detection. Experimental results show that on the bamboo strip defect detection dataset, the mean Average Precision (mAP) of the proposed method is 16.45 and 9.96 percentage points higher than those of YOLO v3 and CenterNet, respectively. The proposed method can effectively detect the different shaped defects of bamboo strips without increasing too much time consumption, and has a good effect in actual industrial applications.

The existing optical flow estimation methods, which are frequently used in video quality enhancement and super-resolution reconstruction tasks, can only estimate the linear motion between pixels. In order to solve this problem, a new multi-frame compression artifact removal network architecture was proposed. The network consisted of motion compensation module and compression artifact removal module. With the traditional optical flow estimation algorithms replaced with the adaptive separable convolution, the motion compensation module was able to handle with the curvilinear motion between pixels, which was not able to be well solved by optical flow methods. For each video frame, a corresponding convolutional kernel was generated by the motion compensation module based on the image structure and the local displacement of pixels. After that, motion offsets were estimated and pixels were compensated in the next frame by means of local convolution. The obtained compensated frame and the original next frame were combined together as input for the compression artifact removal module. By fusing different pixel information of the two frames, the compression artifacts of the original frame were removed. Compared with the state-of-the-art Multi-Frame Quality Enhancement (MFQE) algorithm on the same training and testing datasets, the proposed network has the improvement of Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (Δ PSNR) increased by 0.44 dB at most and 0.32 dB on average. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed network performs well in removing video compression artifacts.