Multi-class Classification Methods of Enhanced LS-TWSVM for Strip Steel Surface Defects Original Research Article

Considering strip steel surface defect samples, a multi-class classification method was proposed based on enhanced least squares twin support vector machines (ELS-TWSVMs) and binary tree. Firstly, pruning region samples center method with adjustable pruning scale was used to prune data samples. This method could reduce classifierʹs training time and testing time. Secondly, ELS-TWSVM was proposed to classify the data samples. By introducing error variable contribution parameter and weight parameter, ELS-TWSVM could restrain the impact of noise samples and have better classification accuracy. Finally, multi-class classification algorithms of ELS-TWSVM were proposed by combining ELS-TWSVM and complete binary tree. Some experiments were made on two-dimensional datasets and strip steel surface defect datasets. The experiments showed that the multi-class classification methods of ELS-TWSVM had higher classification speed and accuracy for the datasets with large-scale, unbalanced and noise samples.