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Camera-based tactile sensors provide robots with a high-performance tactile sensing approach for environment perception and dexterous manipulation. However, achieving comprehensive environmental perception still requires cooperation with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yueshi Dong , Jieji Ren , Zhenle Liu , Zhanxuan Peng , Zihao Yuan , Ningbin Zhang , Guoying Gu

Industrial defect segmentation is critical for manufacturing quality control. Due to the scarcity of training defect samples, few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) holds significant value in this field. However, existing studies mostly apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Tongkun Liu , Bing Li , Xiao Jin , Yupeng Shi , Qiuying Li , Xiang Wei

Scanning large-scale surfaces is widely demanded in surface reconstruction applications and detecting defects in industries' quality control and maintenance stages. Traditional vision-based tactile sensors have shown promising performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Mohammad Amin Mirzaee , Hung-Jui Huang , Wenzhen Yuan

A well-known approach for identifying defect-prone parts of software in order to focus testing is to use different kinds of product metrics such as size or complexity. Although this approach has been evaluated in many contexts, the question…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Frank Elberzhager , Stephan Kremer , Jürgen Münch , Danilo Assmann

Precise optical inspection in industrial applications is crucial for minimizing scrap rates and reducing the associated costs. Besides merely detecting if a product is anomalous or not, it is crucial to know the distinct type of defect,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Ylli Sadikaj , Hongkuan Zhou , Lavdim Halilaj , Stefan Schmid , Steffen Staab , Claudia Plant

Regulatory compliance auditing across diverse industrial domains requires heightened quality assurance and traceability. Present manual and intermittent approaches to such auditing yield significant challenges, potentially leading to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Jia Syuen Lim , Ziwei Wang , Jiajun Liu , Abdelwahed Khamis , Reza Arablouei , Robert Barlow , Ryan McAllister

The automatic inspection of surface defects is an important task for quality control in the computers, communications, and consumer electronics (3C) industry. Conventional devices for defect inspection (viz. line-scan sensors) have a…

New production techniques have emerged that have made it possible to produce metal parts with more complex shapes, making the quality control process more difficult. This implies that the visual and superficial analysis has become even more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Francisco Javier Yagüe , Jose Francisco Diez-Pastor , Pedro Latorre-Carmona , Cesar Ignacio Garcia Osorio

A critical aspect in the manufacturing process is the visual quality inspection of manufactured components for defects and flaws. Human-only visual inspection can be very time-consuming and laborious, and is a significant bottleneck…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Mahmoud Famouri , Gautam Bathla , Francis Li , Alexander Wong

Regular inspection of rail valves and engines is an important task to ensure the safety and efficiency of railway networks around the globe. Over the past decade, computer vision and pattern recognition based techniques have gained traction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Ramanpreet Singh Pahwa , Jin Chao , Jestine Paul , Yiqun Li , Ma Tin Lay Nwe , Shudong Xie , Ashish James , Arulmurugan Ambikapathi , Zeng Zeng , Vijay Ramaseshan Chandrasekhar

Defective surgical instruments pose serious risks to sterility, mechanical integrity, and patient safety, increasing the likelihood of surgical complications. However, quality control in surgical instrument manufacturing often relies on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Qurrat Ul Ain , Atif Aftab Ahmed Jilani , Zunaira Shafqat , Nigar Azhar Butt

Industrial surface defect detection often suffers from limited defect samples, severe long-tailed distributions, and difficulties in accurately localizing subtle defects under complex backgrounds. To address these challenges, this paper…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Shuo Feng , Runlin Zhou , Yuyang Li , Guangcan Liu

Defect Prevention is the most critical but most neglected component of the software quality assurance in any project. If applied at all stages of software development, it can reduce the time, cost and resources required to engineer a high…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-09-08 Suma V. , T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair

Nondestructive testing (NDT) is widely applied to defect identification of turbine components during manufacturing and operation. Operational efficiency is key for gas turbine OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturers). Automating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Andrea Panizza , Szymon Tomasz Stefanek , Stefano Melacci , Giacomo Veneri , Marco Gori

Purpose: Accurate detection and 6D pose estimation of surgical instruments are crucial for many computer-assisted interventions. However, supervised methods lack flexibility for new or unseen tools and require extensive annotated data. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Jonas Hein , Lilian Calvet , Matthias Seibold , Siyu Tang , Marc Pollefeys , Philipp Fürnstahl

This paper provides a comprehensive review of mechanical equipment fault diagnosis methods, focusing on the advancements brought by Transformer-based models. It details the structure, working principles, and benefits of Transformers,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Guiran Liu , Binrong Zhu

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

In the field of architecture, early detection of damage or degradation of building facades has become increasingly vital due to the need for continuous monitoring of structural integrity. Traditional methods, such as visual inspections, are…

Much of the literature on robotic perception focuses on the visual modality. Vision provides a global observation of a scene, making it broadly useful. However, in the domain of robotic manipulation, vision alone can sometimes prove…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Justin Lin , Roberto Calandra , Sergey Levine

Advancement in fundamental engineering aspects of software development enables IT enterprises to develop a more cost effective and better quality product through aptly organized defect management strategies. Inspection continues to be the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-06-05 T. R. Gopalakrishnan Nair , V Suma