European Journal of Wood and Wood Products, cilt.83, ss.1-13, 2025 (SCI-Expanded)
The fast-growing human demands in the world are leading to the expansion of industrialization. As wooden materials are
increasingly used in industrial settings, detecting defects in wood has become crucial. Wood defects adversely affect the
quality and durability of materials. A wood defect detection method, named WD Detector, is proposed in this study to
identify wood defects. There are 18,284 defective wood surface images and 1,992 undefect wood images in a dataset of
20,276 wood images used for wood defect detection. 12 different classical machine learning algorithms are used to classify
wood defects after extracting features from images with various CNNs and transfer learning approaches. In this study,
feature extraction is performed by training the Xception CNN model. Once the features are extracted, classical machine
learning algorithms are used to classify the wood defects. For the first time, a deep learning-based hybrid sensor design
has been implemented on this dataset for wood defect detection. WD Detector achieved 99.32% accuracy in detecting
wood surface defects using the new method. The success of this study’s method in detecting wood defects is believed to
pave the way for future studies.