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Defect engineering has been profoundly employed to confer desirable functionality to materials that pristine lattices inherently lack. Although single atomic-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) images are widely…

In this review, automatic defect inspection algorithms that analyze Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) images for Semiconductor Manufacturing (SM) are identified, categorized, and discussed. This is a topic of critical importance for the SM…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-02 Enrique Dehaerne , Bappaditya Dey , Victor Blanco , Jesse Davis

Industry 4.0 aims to optimize the manufacturing environment by leveraging new technological advances, such as new sensing capabilities and artificial intelligence. The DRAEM technique has shown state-of-the-art performance for unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Jože M. Rožanec , Patrik Zajec , Spyros Theodoropoulos , Erik Koehorst , Blaž Fortuna , Dunja Mladenić

Anomaly detection is the problem of recognizing abnormal inputs based on the seen examples of normal data. Despite recent advances of deep learning in recognizing image anomalies, these methods still prove incapable of handling complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Nina Shvetsova , Bart Bakker , Irina Fedulova , Heinrich Schulz , Dmitry V. Dylov

In the realm of industrial quality inspection, defect detection stands as a critical component, particularly in high-precision, safety-critical sectors such as automotive components aerospace, and medical devices. Traditional methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Shuai Li , Shihan Chen , Wanru Geng , Zhaohua Xu , Xiaolu Liu , Can Dong , Zhen Tian , Changlin Chen

Although deep learning has been applied to successfully address many data mining problems, relatively limited work has been done on deep learning for anomaly detection. Existing deep anomaly detection methods, which focus on learning new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Guansong Pang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Automated surface inspection is an important task in many manufacturing industries and often requires machine learning driven solutions. Supervised approaches, however, can be challenging, since it is often difficult to obtain large amounts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Matthias Haselmann , Dieter P. Gruber , Paul Tabatabai

Visual anomaly detection targets to detect images that notably differ from normal pattern, and it has found extensive application in identifying defective parts within the manufacturing industry. These anomaly detection paradigms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Anindya Sundar Das , Guansong Pang , Monowar Bhuyan

Machine-vision-based defect classification techniques have been widely adopted for automatic quality inspection in manufacturing processes. This article describes a general framework for classifying defects from high volume data batches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Wenbo Sun , Raed Al Kontar , Judy Jin , Tzyy-Shuh Chang

Anomaly detection refers to the task of finding unusual instances that stand out from the normal data. In several applications, these outliers or anomalous instances are of greater interest compared to the normal ones. Specifically in the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-14 Manpreet Singh Minhas , John Zelek

Anomaly detection in images plays a significant role for many applications across all industries, such as disease diagnosis in healthcare or quality assurance in manufacturing. Manual inspection of images, when extended over a monotonously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Vincent Wilmet , Sauraj Verma , Tabea Redl , Håkon Sandaker , Zhenning Li

In this paper, we introduce the problem of simultaneously detecting multiple photographic defects. We aim at detecting the existence, severity, and potential locations of common photographic defects related to color, noise, blur and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Ning Yu , Xiaohui Shen , Zhe Lin , Radomir Mech , Connelly Barnes

Anomaly detection consists in identifying, within a dataset, those samples that significantly differ from the majority of the data, representing the normal class. It has many practical applications, e.g. ranging from defective product…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Pankaj Mishra , Claudio Piciarelli , Gian Luca Foresti

The surface defect detection method based on visual perception has been widely used in industrial quality inspection. Because defect data are not easy to obtain and the annotation of a large number of defect data will waste a lot of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Qifan Jin , Li Chen

Image metrics predict the perceived per-pixel difference between a reference image and its degraded (e. g., re-rendered) version. In several important applications, the reference image is not available and image metrics cannot be applied.…

Visual anomaly detection is an important and challenging problem in the field of machine learning and computer vision. This problem has attracted a considerable amount of attention in relevant research communities. Especially in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Jie Yang , Ruijie Xu , Zhiquan Qi , Yong Shi

Efficient and effective on-line detection and correction of bad-pixels can improve yield and increase the expected lifetime of image sensors. This paper presents a comprehensive Deep Learning (DL) based on-line detection and correction…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-26 Sreetama Sarkar , Xinan Ye , Gourav Datta , Peter A. Beerel

This paper describes the use of neural networks to enhance simulations for subsequent training of anomaly-detection systems. Simulations can provide edge conditions for anomaly detection which may be sparse or non-existent in real-world…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Philip Feldman

Detecting subtle defects in window frames, including dents and scratches, is vital for upholding product integrity and sustaining a positive brand perception. Conventional machine vision systems often struggle to identify these defects in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-14 Jorge Vasquez , Hemant K. Sharma , Tomotake Furuhata , Kenji Shimada

As semiconductor patterning dimensions shrink, more advanced Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) image-based defect inspection techniques are needed. Recently, many Machine Learning (ML)-based approaches have been proposed for defect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Enrique Dehaerne , Bappaditya Dey , Sandip Halder , Stefan De Gendt