Currently, a research article entitled “Purposive Data Augmentation Strategy and Lightweight Classification Model for Small Sample Industrial Defect Dataset” (DOI: 10.1109/TII.2024.3404053), has been published on IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, a top journal in Computer Science with the Impact Factor of 12.3. Dr Liyuan Lin, from the College of Electronics Information and Automation, is the first author and affiliated to Tianjin University of Science and Technology. The research is co-operated and finished by Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Dawning Information Industry Co.,Ltd. and Tianjin University.