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MA/MSc Internship for EUGLOH program

Title: AI SOlution for Non-DEstructive Ultrasonic Testing of Critical Systems

Keywords: Deep learning, multi-modal data, Non destructive analysis

Internship Duration: 30/11/-1 - 30/11/-1


Head of the hosting team: vincent Vigneron

Address of the host laboratory:
Informatique, BioInformatique, Systèmes Complexes
Team Informatique, BioInformatique, Systèmes Complexes
23 Boulevard de France
91037 EVRY CEDEX France

Supervisor 1: vincent vigneron
E-mail: vincent.vigneron@univ-evry.fr
Phone: 0663568760

Supervisor 2: Hichem Maaref
E-mail: hichem.maaref@iut.univ-evry.fr
Phone: 0663568760


Internship description:

Description Ultrasounds are used for non-destructive testing (NDT) of industrial parts
without harming their integrity. This consists of emitting acoustic waves and detecting
their interactions with defects in the part. In real-time, the re-emitted waves (echo) are
then converted into a digital image of the fault, thus located and
characterized.
This internship focuses on identifying possible defects in fasteners in a critical system by deep neural networks. The identification of these defects will be based in particular on several ultrasound measurements (multimodal), carried out in situ by the maintenance teams of various partner industrial sites [4]. A promising approach is first to estimate the quality of an acquisition, as many factors can directly lead to poor analysis when it comes to determining the presence or absence of a defect or rendering the acquisition uninformative for this task.

Objectives: The (SMART) objectives of this study are as follows:
1 (main): Be able to detect, in an unsupervised way, poor-quality acquisitions automatically
2. Compare results to make them consistent with those of experts.
3. Improve existing models for supervised estimation of acquisition quality.

Techniques used during the internship:

Methodology The networks envisaged a priori for this research are deep neural
architectures, more specifically, Vision Transformer (ViT) for supervised classification
with, as inputs, several modalities sent at the same time in different directions,
forming a multimodal "image" [2].

Expected results: Deep neural networks will be trained to correct pre-existing
annotations by identifying suspect annotations. A statistical study of the behavior of
model outputs will be carried out to obtain a confidence index in estimating model outputs.
A data augmentation procedure may be developed to reduce the data to be
measured and build a new training database.

Bibliography:

Références
[1] Karakuş etal. Detection of line artifacts in lung ultrasound images of covid-19 patients via nonconvex regularization. IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 67(11) :2218–2229, 2020.
[2] Lopez etal.. Non-destructive testing application of radiography and ultrasound for
wire and arc additive manufacturing. Additive Manufacturing, 21:298–306, 2018.
[3] Najafabadi et al.. Deep learning applications and challenges in big data
analytics. Journal of Big Data, 2, 12 2015.
[4] Shangqin Yuan and Xudong Yu. Ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation of selectively
laser-sintered polymeric nanocomposites. Polymer Testing, 90 :106705, 2020.


Possibility of PhD : No decided yet

Research field(s) of interest to the hosting team:
Language(s) spoken in the host laboratory: french/english