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The bottleneck in learning-based industrial defect detection is often limited not by model capacity, but by the scarcity of labeled defect data: defects are rare, annotations are expensive, and collecting balanced training sets is slow. We…

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Three-dimensional point cloud anomaly detection that aims to detect anomaly data points from a training set serves as the foundation for a variety of applications, including industrial inspection and autonomous driving. However, existing…

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Laser chips, the core components of semiconductor lasers, are extensively utilized in various industries, showing great potential for future application. Smoothness emitting surfaces are crucial in chip production, as even imperceptible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Pan Liu

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

Detecting surface anomalies of industrial materials poses a significant challenge within a myriad of industrial manufacturing processes. In recent times, various methodologies have emerged, capitalizing on the advantages of employing a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Simon Thomine , Hichem Snoussi

A common study area in anomaly identification is industrial images anomaly detection based on texture background. The interference of texture images and the minuteness of texture anomalies are the main reasons why many existing models fail…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yaohua Guo , Lijuan Song , Zirui Ma

Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) has been widely used to estimate the healthy operation of some urban roads and underground facilities. When identifying subsurface anomalies by GPR in an area, the obtained data could be unbalanced, and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Xiren Zhou , Shikang Liu , Ao Chen , Yizhan Fan , Huanhuan Chen

Recent work has focused on generating synthetic imagery to increase the size and variability of training data for learning visual tasks in urban scenes. This includes increasing the occurrence of occlusions or varying environmental and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Alexandra Carlson , Katherine A. Skinner , Ram Vasudevan , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

Automated surface-anomaly detection using machine learning has become an interesting and promising area of research, with a very high and direct impact on the application domain of visual inspection. Deep-learning methods have become the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Domen Tabernik , Samo Šela , Jure Skvarč , Danijel Skočaj

Although mainstream unsupervised anomaly detection (AD) algorithms perform well in academic datasets, their performance is limited in practical application due to the ideal experimental setting of clean training data. Training with noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Xi Jiang , Ying Chen , Qiang Nie , Yong Liu , Jianlin Liu , Bin-Bin Gao , Jun Liu , Chengjie Wang , Feng Zheng

Display front-of-screen (FOS) quality inspection is essential for the mass production of displays in the manufacturing process. However, the severe imbalanced data, especially the limited number of defect samples, has been a long-standing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Shancong Mou , Meng Cao , Zhendong Hong , Ping Huang , Jiulong Shan , Jianjun Shi

Surface anomaly detection plays an important quality control role in many manufacturing industries to reduce scrap production. Machine-based visual inspections have been utilized in recent years to conduct this task instead of human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Tareq Tayeh , Sulaiman Aburakhia , Ryan Myers , Abdallah Shami

Makeup transfer aims to apply the makeup style of a reference portrait to a source portrait while preserving identity and background. Early methods formulate this task as unsupervised image-to-image translation, relying on surrogate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yue Yu , Jiayu Wang , Jiajia Shi , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Detecting and evaluating surface coating defects is important for marine vessel maintenance. Currently, the assessment is carried out manually by qualified inspectors using international standards and their own experience. Automating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Li Yu , Kareem Metwaly , James Z. Wang , Vishal Monga

Early detection of illnesses and pest infestations in fruit cultivation is critical for maintaining yield quality and plant health. Computer vision and robotics are increasingly employed for the automatic detection of such issues,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Ionut Marian Motoi , Valerio Belli , Alberto Carpineto , Daniele Nardi , Thomas Alessandro Ciarfuglia

Artifact detectors have been shown to enhance the performance of image-generative models by serving as reward models during fine-tuning. These detectors enable the generative model to improve overall output fidelity and aesthetics. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Dennis Menn , Feng Liang , Diana Marculescu

This work is addressing the problem of defect anomaly detection based on a clean reference image. Specifically, we focus on SEM semiconductor defects in addition to several natural image anomalies. There are well-known methods to create a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Nati Ofir , Yotam Ben Shoshan , Ran Badanes , Boris Sherman

In the past utilities relied on in-field inspections to identify asset defects. Recently, utilities have started using drone-based inspections to enhance the field-inspection process. We consider a vast repository of drone images, providing…

Although mainstream unsupervised anomaly detection (AD) (including image-level classification and pixel-level segmentation)algorithms perform well in academic datasets, their performance is limited in practical application due to the ideal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Chengjie Wang , Xi Jiang , Bin-Bin Gao , Zhenye Gan , Yong Liu , Feng Zheng , Lizhuang Ma

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