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Since it is challenging to obtain defect images in the implementation process, a deep convolutional adversarial generation network was used to augment the defect images. As the experimental results indicated, the detection accuracy of the proposed method on the 3000 validation set was as high as 97.35%. Variant mainstream CNNs were compared to evaluate the model\u2019s performance thoroughly, and the top performer was selected to conduct further comparative experiments with traditional machine learning methods, such as support vector machine algorithm, random forest algorithm, and k-nearest neighbor clustering algorithm. Moreover, the other two varieties of pears that have not been trained were chosen to validate the robustness and generalization capability of the model. The validation results illustrated that the proposed method is more accurate than the commonly used algorithms for pear defect detection. It is robust enough to be generalized well to other datasets. 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