In factory automation, efforts are being made to increase productivity while maintaining high-quality products. In this study, a CNN network structure was designed to quickly and accurately recognize a cigarette located in the opposite direction or a cigarette with a loose end in an automated facility rotating at high speed for cigarette production. Tobacco inspection requires a simple network structure and fast processing time and performance. The proposed network has an excellent accuracy of 96.33% and a short processing time of 0.527 msec, showing excellent performance in learning time and performance compared to other CNN networks, confirming its practicality. In addition, it was confirmed that efficient learning is possible by increasing a small number of image data through a rotation conversion method.

In this study, the multi-lane detection problem is expressed as a CNN-based regression problem, and the lane boundary coordinates are selected as outputs. In addition, we described lanes as fifth-order polynomials and distinguished the ego lane and the side lanes so that we could make the prediction lanes accurately. By eliminating the network branch arrangement and the lane boundary coordinate vector outside the image proposed by Chougule’s method, it was possible to eradicate meaningless data learning in CNN and increase the fast training and performance speed. And we confirmed that the average prediction error was small in the performance evaluation even though the proposed method compared with Chougule’s method under harsher conditions. In addition, even in a specific image with many errors, the predicted lanes did not deviate significantly, meaningful results were derived, and we confirmed robust performance.

After CNN basic structure was introduced by LeCun in 1989, there has not been a major structure change except for more deep network until recently. The deep network enhances the expression power due to improve the abstraction ability of the network, and can learn complex problems by increasing non linearity. However, the learning of a deep network means that it has vanishing gradient or longer learning time. In this study, we proposes a CNN structure with MLP layer. The proposed CNNs are superior to the general CNN in their classification performance. It is confirmed that classification accuracy is high due to include MLP layer which improves non linearity by experiment. In order to increase the performance without making a deep network, it is confirmed that the performance is improved by increasing the non linearity of the network.