A Lightweight CNN Model for Fast Classification of Wear Particle Images
Aiming at the disadvantages of CNN model for wear particle analysis,such as too many parameters,slow oper-ation speed,and difficulty in practical application,research on lightweight of the CNN model for wear particle image classi-fication was carried out.The parameters,computation and pruning sensitivity of each layer in the CNN model were ana-lyzed,which determined the convolution layer 4 and 5 as the filter pruning targets.The importance of all filters in convolu-tion layer 4 and 5 was calculated,and the filters were sorted by their importance.A lightweight model was obtained after re-moving the filters with low importance at 75%pruning rate and retraining.The experimental results show that after light-weight processing,the number of theoretical parameters and amount of memory usage are reduced by more than 50%,and the operation speed is increased by more than 20%while the accuracy barely drops.This study provides an idea for the ap-plication of CNN model on the portable and mobile ferrography equipment.