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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…

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Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) is a key task in industrial settings, where minimizing operational costs is essential. Deploying deep learning models within Internet of Things (IoT) environments introduces specific challenges due to limited…

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As systems in smart manufacturing become increasingly complex, producing an abundance of data, the potential for production failures becomes increasingly more likely. There arises the need to minimize or eradicate production failures, one…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Tareq Tayeh , Abdallah Shami

In manufacturing processes, surface inspection is a key requirement for quality assessment and damage localization. Due to this, automated surface anomaly detection has become a promising area of research in various industrial inspection…

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

Visual anomaly detection aims at classifying and locating the regions that deviate from the normal appearance. Embedding-based methods and reconstruction-based methods are two main approaches for this task. However, they are either not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Shuyuan Wang , Qi Li , Huiyuan Luo , Chengkan Lv , Zhengtao Zhang

Various technologies, including computer vision models, are employed for the automatic monitoring of manual assembly processes in production. These models detect and classify events such as the presence of components in an assembly area or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Anton Sergeev , Victor Minchenkov , Aleksei Soldatov , Vasiliy Kakurin , Yaroslav Mazikov

In modern manufacturing, Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD) is essential for automated inspection and consistent product quality. Yet, increasingly dynamic and flexible production environments introduce key challenges: First, frequent product…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Haoyu Ren , Kay Koehle , Kirill Dorofeev , Darko Anicic

The detection and localization of quality-related problems in industrially mass-produced products has historically relied on manual inspection, which is costly and error-prone. Machine learning has the potential to replace manual handling.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Sebastian Hönel , Jonas Nordqvist

Industrial Anomaly Detection (IAD) is a subproblem within Computer Vision Anomaly Detection that has been receiving increasing amounts of attention due to its applicability to real-life scenarios. Recent research has focused on how to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Mariette Schönfeld , Wannes Meert , Hendrik Blockeel

We focus on a specific use case in anomaly detection where the distribution of normal samples is supported by a lower-dimensional manifold. Here, regularized autoencoders provide a popular approach by learning the identity mapping on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Alexander Bauer , Shinichi Nakajima , Klaus-Robert Müller

Anomaly detection from images captured using camera sensors is one of the mainstream applications at the industrial level. Particularly, it maintains the quality and optimizes the efficiency in production processes across diverse industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Abdelrahman Alzarooni , Ehtesham Iqbal , Samee Ullah Khan , Sajid Javed , Brain Moyo , Yusra Abdulrahman

Visual defect detection is critical to ensure the quality of most products. However, the majority of small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises still rely on tedious and error-prone human manual inspection. The main reasons include:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zijian Kuang , Xinran Tie , Lihang Ying , Shi Jin

Visual defect assessment is a form of anomaly detection. This is very relevant in finding faults such as cracks and markings in various surface inspection tasks like pavement and automotive parts. The task involves detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Manpreet Singh Minhas , John Zelek

Industrial anomaly detection based on RGB-3D multimodal data has emerged as a mainstream paradigm for intelligent quality inspection. However, existing unsupervised methods suffer from two critical limitations: ambiguous cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zewen Li , Shuo Ye , Zitong Yu , Weicheng Xie , Linlin Shen

It is hard to collect enough flaw images for training deep learning network in industrial production. Therefore, existing industrial anomaly detection methods prefer to use CNN-based unsupervised detection and localization network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jianfeng Huang , Chenyang Li , Yimin Lin , Shiguo Lian

Deep learning promises performant anomaly detection on time-variant datasets, but greatly suffers from low availability of suitable training datasets and frequently changing tasks. Deep transfer learning offers mitigation by letting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Benjamin Maschler , Tim Knodel , Michael Weyrich

In line with the development of Industry 4.0, surface defect detection/anomaly detection becomes a topical subject in the industry field. Improving efficiency as well as saving labor costs has steadily become a matter of great concern in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Yajie Cui , Zhaoxiang Liu , Shiguo Lian

Autonomous inspection robots for monitoring industrial sites can reduce costs and risks associated with human-led inspection. However, accurate readings can be challenging due to occlusions, limited viewpoints, or unexpected environmental…

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