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Defects are unavoidable in casting production owing to the complexity of the casting process. While conventional human-visual inspection of casting products is slow and unproductive in mass productions, an automatic and reliable defect…

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Overhead line inspection greatly benefits from defect recognition using visible light imagery. Addressing the limitations of existing feature extraction techniques and the heavy data dependency of deep learning approaches, this paper…

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Industrial surface defect inspection for sample-wise quality control (QC) must simultaneously decide whether a given sample contains defects and localize those defects spatially. In real production lines, extreme foreground-background…

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Image segmentation is a challenging task influenced by multiple sources of uncertainty, such as the data labeling process or the sampling of training data. In this paper we focus on binary segmentation and address these challenges using…

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Surface defect detection of steel, especially the recognition of multi-scale defects, has always been a major challenge in industrial manufacturing. Steel surfaces not only have defects of various sizes and shapes, which limit the accuracy…

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The industry increasingly relies on deep learning (DL) technology for manufacturing inspections, which are challenging to automate with rule-based machine vision algorithms. DL-powered inspection systems derive defect patterns from labeled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Altaf Allah Abbassi , Houssem Ben Braiek , Foutse Khomh , Thomas Reid

Deep learning methods have proven to outperform traditional computer vision methods in various areas of image processing. However, the application of deep learning in industrial surface defect detection systems is challenging due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Dominik Martin , Simon Heinzel , Johannes Kunze von Bischhoffshausen , Niklas Kühl

Fasteners play a critical role in securing various parts of machinery. Deformations such as dents, cracks, and scratches on the surface of fasteners are caused by material properties and incorrect handling of equipment during production…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Manjeet Kaur , Krishan Kumar Chauhan , Tanya Aggarwal , Pushkar Bharadwaj , Renu Vig , Isibor Kennedy Ihianle , Garima Joshi , Kayode Owa

Obtaining high-quality labels for large datasets is expensive, requiring massive annotations from human experts. While AI models offer a cost-effective alternative by predicting labels, their label quality is compromised by the unavoidable…

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Although two-stage object detectors have continuously advanced the state-of-the-art performance in recent years, the training process itself is far from crystal. In this work, we first point out the inconsistency problem between the fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Hongkai Zhang , Hong Chang , Bingpeng Ma , Naiyan Wang , Xilin Chen

Transforming a design into a high-quality product is a challenge in metal additive manufacturing due to rare events which can cause defects to form. Detecting these events in-situ could, however, reduce inspection costs, enable corrective…

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The early and robust detection of anomalies occurring in discrete manufacturing processes allows operators to prevent harm, e.g. defects in production machinery or products. While current approaches for data-driven anomaly detection provide…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Benjamin Maschler , Thi Thu Huong Pham , Michael Weyrich

Automating the quality control of shot-blasted steel surfaces is crucial for improving manufacturing efficiency and consistency. This study presents a dataset of 1654 labeled RGB images (512x512) of steel surfaces, classified as either…

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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

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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Ensuring software quality in embedded firmware is critical, especially in safety-critical domains where compliance with functional safety standards (ISO 26262) requires strong guarantees of software reliability. While machine learning-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Marco De Luca , Domenico Amalfitano , Anna Rita Fasolino , Porfirio Tramontana

Surface defect detection is significant in industrial production. However, detecting defects with varying textures and anomaly classes during the test time is challenging. This arises due to the differences in data distributions between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yiran Song , Qianyu Zhou , Lizhuang Ma

Detecting faults in steel plates is crucial for ensuring the safety and reliability of the structures and industrial equipment. Early detection of faults can prevent further damage and costly repairs. This chapter aims at diagnosing and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Salar Farahmand-Tabar , Tarik A. Rashid

Semantic segmentation is an important task that helps autonomous vehicles understand their surroundings and navigate safely. During deployment, even the most mature segmentation models are vulnerable to various external factors that can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Quazi Marufur Rahman , Niko Sünderhauf , Peter Corke , Feras Dayoub

Utilizing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), our system introduces an innovative approach to defect detection in manufacturing. This technology excels in…

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