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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,…

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The task of steel surface defect recognition is an industrial problem with great industry values. The data insufficiency is the major challenge in training a robust defect recognition network. Existing methods have investigated to enlarge…

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Preparing training data for deep vision models is a labor-intensive task. To address this, generative models have emerged as an effective solution for generating synthetic data. While current generative models produce image-level category…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Quang Nguyen , Truong Vu , Anh Tran , Khoi Nguyen

The performances of defect inspection have been severely hindered by insufficient defect images in industries, which can be alleviated by generating more samples as data augmentation. We propose the first defect image generation method in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yuxuan Duan , Yan Hong , Li Niu , Liqing Zhang

Utility companies increasingly rely on drone imagery for post-event and routine inspection, but training accurate defect-type classifiers remains difficult because defect examples are rare and inspection datasets are often limited or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xuesong Wang , Caisheng Wang

Efficient automated print defect mapping is valuable to the printing industry since such defects directly influence customer-perceived printer quality and manually mapping them is cost-ineffective. Conventional methods consist of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Augusto C. Valente , Cristina Wada , Deangela Neves , Deangeli Neves , Fábio V. M. Perez , Guilherme A. S. Megeto , Marcos H. Cascone , Otavio Gomes , Qian Lin

In industry, defect detection is crucial for quality control. Non-destructive testing (NDT) methods are preferred as they do not influence the functionality of the object while inspecting. Automated data evaluation for automated defect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Natascha Jeziorski , Petra Gospodnetić , Claudia Redenbach

Building facade defect inspection is fundamental to structural health monitoring and sustainable urban maintenance, yet it remains a formidable challenge due to extreme geometric variability, low contrast against complex backgrounds, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hui Zhong , Yichun Gao , Luyan Liu , Xusen Guo , Zhaonian Kuang , Qiming Zhang , Xinhu Zheng

Recent advances in image generation have led to the widespread availability of highly realistic synthetic media, increasing the difficulty of reliable deepfake detection. A key challenge is generalization, as detectors trained on a narrow…

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Defect detection in the manufacturing industry is of utmost importance for product quality inspection. Recently, optical defect detection has been investigated as an anomaly detection using different deep learning methods. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Ammar Mansoor Kamoona , Amirali Khodadadian Gostar , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar , Reza Hoseinnezhad

Visual inspection for defect grading in agricultural supply chains is crucial but traditionally labor-intensive and error-prone. Automated computer vision methods typically require extensively annotated datasets, which are often unavailable…

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To coupe with the difficulties in the process of inspection and classification of defects in Printed Circuit Board (PCB), other researchers have proposed many methods. However, few of them published their dataset before, which hindered the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Weibo Huang , Peng Wei

Deep learning is now the gold standard in computer vision-based quality inspection systems. In order to detect defects, supervised learning is often utilized, but necessitates a large amount of annotated images, which can be costly:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Pierre Gutierrez , Maria Luschkova , Antoine Cordier , Mustafa Shukor , Mona Schappert , Tim Dahmen

Defect segmentation is crucial for quality control in advanced manufacturing, yet data scarcity poses challenges for state-of-the-art supervised deep learning. Synthetic defect data generation is a popular approach for mitigating data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Shancong Mou , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Shiyu Li , Yuxuan Liu , C Thomas , Meng Cao , Haoping Bai , Oncel Tuzel , Ping Huang , Jiulong Shan , Jianjun Shi

Defects are ubiquitous in solids and strongly influence materials' mechanical and functional properties. However, non-destructive characterization and quantification of defects, especially when multiple types coexist, remain a long-standing…

To assist in the development of machine learning methods for automated classification of spectroscopic data, we have generated a universal synthetic dataset that can be used for model validation. This dataset contains artificial spectra…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Jan Schuetzke , Nathan J. Szymanski , Markus Reischl

Dataset distillation (DD) aims to generate a compact yet informative dataset that achieves performance comparable to the original dataset, thereby reducing demands on storage and computational resources. Although diffusion models have made…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Yawen Zou , Guang Li , Zi Wang , Chunzhi Gu , Chao Zhang

Existing defect/anomaly generation methods often rely on few-shot learning, which overfits to specific defect categories due to the lack of large-scale paired defect editing data. This issue is aggravated by substantial variations in defect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yuanting Fan , Jun Liu , Bin-Bin Gao , Xiaochen Chen , Yuhuan Lin , Zhewei Dai , Jiawei Zhan , Chengjie Wang

A growing need exists for efficient and accurate methods for detecting defects in semiconductor materials and devices. These defects can have a detrimental impact on the efficiency of the manufacturing process, because they cause critical…

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