The invention discloses a steel cable surface defect detection method based on an improved SSD
algorithm, and the method comprises the steps: S1, constructing a steel cable surface defect
data set which comprises a plurality of steel cable images and defect types corresponding to the steel cable images; s2, constructing a steel cable surface defect detection neural network, and training the steel cable surface defect detection neural network by using the
data set to obtain a steel cable surface defect detection model; the steel cable surface defect detection neural network is constructed based on an SSD network, RestNet18 is introduced to serve as a backbone of the SSD network, a one-way
feature fusion block and an improved CBAM attention module are introduced, and meanwhile, Focus serves as a
loss function. And S3, acquiring a steel cable image in real time, and inputting the steel cable image into the steel cable surface defect detection model to obtain a corresponding defect category. According to the steel cable surface defect detection method based on the improved SSD
algorithm, the steel cable production efficiency can be effectively improved, and the labor cost is reduced.