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Manufacturing wafers is an intricate task involving thousands of steps. Defect Pattern Recognition (DPR) of wafer maps is crucial to find the root cause of the issue and further improving the yield in the wafer foundry. Mixed-type DPR is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Nitish Shukla

Quality management in semiconductor manufacturing often relies on template matching with known golden standards. For Indium-Phosphide (InP) multi-project wafer manufacturing, low production scale and high design variability lead to such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Emílio Dolgener Cantú , Rolf Klemens Wittmann , Oliver Abdeen , Patrick Wagner , Wojciech Samek , Moritz Baier , Sebastian Lapuschkin

Predictive maintenance is an important sector in modern industries which improves fault detection and cost reduction processes. By using machine learning algorithms in the whole process, the defects detection process can be implemented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Sushmita Nath

Latent defect screening is challenged by extremely low failure rates, high-dimensional test data, and absence of labeled anomalies. We propose the first unsupervised anomaly detection framework incorporating a Diffusion Transformer. Raw…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuxuan Yin , Chen He , Todd Jacobs , Jialei He , Boxun Xu , Robert Jin , Peng Li

Controlling crystalline material defects is crucial, as they affect properties of the material that may be detrimental or beneficial for the final performance of a device. Defect analysis on the sub-nanometer scale is enabled by…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-06-03 Nik Dennler , Antonio Foncubierta-Rodriguez , Titus Neupert , Marilyne Sousa

As the integration density and design intricacy of semiconductor wafers increase, the magnitude and complexity of defects in them are also on the rise. Since the manual inspection of wafer defects is costly, an automated artificial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Subhrajit Nag , Dhruv Makwana , Sai Chandra Teja R , Sparsh Mittal , C Krishna Mohan

We present the development of a semi-supervised regression method using variational autoencoders (VAE), which is customized for use in soft sensing applications. We motivate the use of semi-supervised learning considering the fact that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yilin Zhuang , Zhuobin Zhou , Burak Alakent , Mehmet Mercangöz

Automatic defect detection for 3D printing processes, which shares many characteristics with change detection problems, is a vital step for quality control of 3D printed products. However, there are some critical challenges in the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Yushuo Niu , Ethan Chadwick , Anson W. K. Ma , Qian Yang

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Thibault Lechien , Enrique Dehaerne , Bappaditya Dey , Victor Blanco , Sandip Halder , Stefan De Gendt , Wannes Meert

Continual shrinking of pattern dimensions in the semiconductor domain is making it increasingly difficult to inspect defects due to factors such as the presence of stochastic noise and the dynamic behavior of defect patterns and types.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Vic De Ridder , Bappaditya Dey , Enrique Dehaerne , Sandip Halder , Stefan De Gendt , Bartel Van Waeyenberge

Unsupervised representation learning holds the promise of exploiting large amounts of unlabeled data to learn general representations. A promising technique for unsupervised learning is the framework of Variational Auto-encoders (VAEs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Kamal Gupta , Saurabh Singh , Abhinav Shrivastava

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

Inspired by the recent success of deep learning in multiscale information encoding, we introduce a variational autoencoder (VAE) based semi-supervised method for detection of faulty traffic data, which is cast as a classification problem.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Yongcan Huang , Jidong J. Yang

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 semiconductor manufacturing, the wafer dicing process is central yet vulnerable to defects that significantly impair yield - the proportion of defect-free chips. Deep neural networks are the current state of the art in (semi-)automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zhining Hu , Tobias Schlosser , Michael Friedrich , André Luiz Vieira e Silva , Frederik Beuth , Danny Kowerko

Metal manufacturing often results in the production of defective products, leading to operational challenges. Since traditional manual inspection is time-consuming and resource-intensive, automatic solutions are needed. The study utilizes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Toqa Alaa , Mostafa Kotb , Arwa Zakaria , Mariam Diab , Walid Gomaa

In material characterization, identifying defective areas on a material surface is fundamental. The conventional approach involves measuring the relevant physical properties point-by-point at the predetermined mesh grid points on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Shota Hozumi , Kentaro Kutsukake , Kota Matsui , Syunya Kusakawa , Toru Ujihara , Ichiro Takeuchi

Serial femtosecond crystallography at X-ray free electron laser facilities opens a new era for the determination of crystal structure. However, the data processing of those experiments is facing unprecedented challenge, because the total…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-22 Jianan Xie , Ji Liu , Chi Zhang , Xihui Chen , Ping Huai , Jie Zheng , Xiaofeng Zhang

Localization systems based on ultra-wide band (UWB) measurements can have unsatisfactory performance in harsh environments due to the presence of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) errors. Learning-based methods for error mitigation have shown great…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-30 Yuxiao Li , Santiago Mazuelas , Yuan Shen