CNNs,23,24 a variant of multilayer feed forward networks, are recently used widely in image classification and object recognition tasks. A CNN architecture can be designed using a few convolutional layers, often followed by a max pooling layer, then fully connected layers and an activation function layer. As CNN consists of many layers, it needs to learn many connection weights, and for a big network, a lot of data are typically needed to avoid under- or overfitting. The dataset we were using has just 276 cases for training, which is rather small for a CNN. So, a transfer learning approach was tried using a large network trained on the ImagNet set of camera images. 解释

CNNs是一种多层前馈网络的变体，最近在图像分类和物体识别任务中被广泛使用。CNN的架构可以使用几个卷积层，通常跟随一个最大池化层，然后是全连接层和激活函数层。由于CNN由许多层组成，因此需要学习许多连接权重，对于大型网络，通常需要大量数据来避免欠拟合或过拟合。我们使用的数据集只有276个训练案例，对于CNN而言相对较小。因此，尝试使用在ImagNet数据集上训练的大型网络进行迁移学习的方法。

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翻译这段英文，并解释： Deploying convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on em-bedded devices is difficult due to the limited memory and computation resources. The redundancy in feature maps is an important characteristic of those successful CNNs, but has rarely been investigated in neural architecture de-sign. This paper proposes a novel Ghost module to generate more feature maps from cheap operations. Based on a set of intrinsic feature maps, we apply a series of linear transformations with cheap cost to generate many ghost Feature maps that could fully reveal information underlying intrinsic features. The proposed Ghost module can be taken as a plug-and-play component to upgrade existing convo-lutional neural networks. Ghost bottlenecks are designed to stack Ghost modules, and then the lightweight Ghost-Net can be easily established. Experiments conducted on benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed Ghost module is an impressive alternative of convolution layers in baseline models, and our GhostNet can achieve higher recognition performance (e.g. 75.7% top-I accuracy) than MobileNetV3 with similar computational cost on the ImaseNet ILSVRC2012 classification dataset.

部署卷积神经网络（CNN）到嵌入式设备上是困难的，因为这些设备的内存和计算资源有限。特征图中的冗余是成功的CNN的一个重要特征，但在神经结构设计中很少被研究。本文提出了一种新颖的 Ghost 模块，可以通过廉价的操作生成更多的特征图。基于一组固有特征图，我们应用一系列廉价的线性变换来生成许多鬼特征图，这些特征图可以完全揭示固有特征之下的信息。所提出的 Ghost 模块可以作为插件式组件，升级现有的卷积神经网络。Ghost 瓶颈被设计为堆叠 Ghost 模块，然后可以轻松地建立轻量级 Ghost-Net。在基准测试中进行的实验表明，所提出的 Ghost 模块是基线模型中卷积层的一个令人印象深刻的替代品，我们的 GhostNet 在 ImaseNet ILSVRC2012 分类数据集上可以实现比 MobileNetV3 更高的识别性能（例如，75.7% 的 top-I 准确率），并且计算成本类似。

本文提出了一种新的 Ghost 模块，可以生成更多的特征图，以提高卷积神经网络的性能。Ghost 模块可以作为插件式组件，轻松地升级现有的卷积神经网络。GhostNet 通过堆叠 Ghost 模块，可以轻松地建立轻量级神经网络。实验表明，Ghost 模块是卷积层的一个令人印象深刻的替代品，GhostNet 可以实现比 MobileNetV3 更高的识别性能，但计算成本类似。

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Introduction

Gas metal arc welding (GMAW), also known as metal inert gas (MIG) welding, is a widely used industrial process that involves the transfer of metal droplets from a consumable electrode wire to a workpiece through a welding arc. In this process, the welding operator controls various welding parameters, such as welding current, voltage, wire feed speed, and electrode polarity, to achieve the desired weld bead geometry and properties. The metal transfer mechanism plays a critical role in determining the weld quality and productivity in GMAW. Therefore, there has been significant interest in developing automated methods for analyzing the metal transfer images and extracting useful information about the process.

In recent years, deep learning has emerged as a powerful technique for analyzing and processing images. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are a type of deep learning model that can learn features from images in an end-to-end manner, without requiring explicit feature engineering. In this paper, we present a deep-learning based approach for analyzing metal transfer images in GMAW. We first discuss the dataset used in this study, followed by a detailed description of the proposed method. We then present the experimental results and discuss the implications of our findings.

Dataset

The metal transfer images were captured using a high-speed camera at a frame rate of 20,000 frames per second. The camera was positioned perpendicular to the welding direction and had a resolution of 1280 × 1024 pixels. The images were captured during the welding of mild steel plates using a GMAW process with a 1.2 mm diameter wire. The welding current, voltage, and wire feed speed were varied to obtain a range of metal transfer modes, including short-circuiting, globular, and spray transfer modes. The dataset consists of 10,000 metal transfer images, with each image labeled with the corresponding metal transfer mode.

Proposed method

The proposed method for analyzing metal transfer images in GMAW consists of the following steps:

1. Image preprocessing: The metal transfer images are preprocessed to remove any noise and artifacts. A Gaussian filter is applied to smooth the images, followed by a contrast enhancement step using histogram equalization.

2. Feature extraction: A CNN is used to extract features from the preprocessed images. The CNN architecture used in this study is based on the VGG-16 model, which has shown excellent performance in image classification tasks. The VGG-16 model consists of 13 convolutional layers and 3 fully connected layers. The output of the last convolutional layer is used as the feature vector for each image.

3. Classification: The feature vectors extracted from the metal transfer images are used to train a multiclass classification model. In this study, we used a support vector machine (SVM) classifier with a radial basis function (RBF) kernel. The SVM classifier was trained on 80% of the dataset and tested on the remaining 20%.

Experimental results

The proposed method was evaluated on the dataset of 10,000 metal transfer images. The classification accuracy achieved by the SVM classifier was 96.7%, indicating that the method can accurately classify the metal transfer modes in GMAW. To further validate the performance of the method, we compared it with two other classification models: a decision tree classifier and a random forest classifier. The decision tree classifier achieved an accuracy of 85.2%, while the random forest classifier achieved an accuracy of 94.5%. These results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms these traditional machine learning models.

To further analyze the performance of the method, we conducted a sensitivity analysis by varying the number of convolutional layers in the CNN. We found that the performance of the method improved with increasing number of convolutional layers, up to a certain point, after which there was no significant improvement