Big-Volume SliceGAN for Improving a Synthetic 3D Microstructure Image of Additive-Manufactured TYPE 316L Steel
Keiya Sugiura, Toshio Ogawa, Yoshitaka Adachi, Fei Sun, Asuka Suzuki, Akinori Yamanaka, Nobuo Nakada, Takuya Ishimoto, Takayoshi Nakano, Yuichiro Koizumi
Abstract
A modified SliceGAN architecture was proposed to generate a high-quality synthetic three-dimensional (3D) microstructure image of TYPE 316L material manufactured through additive methods. The quality of the resulting 3D image was evaluated using an auto-correlation function, and it was discovered that maintaining a high resolution while doubling the training image size was crucial in creating a more realistic synthetic 3D image. To meet this requirement, modified 3D image generator and critic architecture was developed within the SliceGAN framework.
Topics & Concepts
Generator (circuit theory)Image (mathematics)Computer scienceMicrostructureArtificial intelligenceImage qualityArchitectureComputer vision3D printingMaterials scienceMetallurgyArtPower (physics)PhysicsVisual artsQuantum mechanicsAdditive Manufacturing Materials and ProcessesWelding Techniques and Residual StressesIndustrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection