Abstract:Metal surface defect detection is a crucial aspect of quality control in industrial manufacturing; traditional manual inspection methods are costly and inefficient, making it difficult to meet the requirements of modern manufacturing for high precision and efficiency; a modified network model based on MobileNetV2 is proposed to improve the accuracy and efficiency of metal surface defect detection; the model introduces the Coordinate Attention (CA) mechanism to enhance feature learning ability and incorporates an improved lightweight Inception_DSC module to strengthen the extraction of multi-scale features; image augmentation techniques are applied to the dataset to improve the robustness of the network; experiments conducted on the NEU-DET metal defect dataset validate the effectiveness of the model; IC_MobileNetV2 achieves a validation accuracy of 92.8%, which is 5.6, 2.8, 0.9, 1.7, and 1.7 percentage points higher than MobileNetV2, AlexNet, GoogleNet, DenseNet, ResNet34, and ResNet50, respectively; experimental results show that this method has good practical significance in metal surface defect classification.