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  1. Feature identification for parameter extraction and defect detection using machine learning

    Oct 5, 2026Yan Guo, Helda Pahlavani, Artem Khachaturiants +5Defect DetectionFeature Extraction

    Nearfield Instruments, B.V. (The Netherlands)

  2. VIEScore2: Unified Image Evaluation with Spatially Grounded Explanations

    Oct 1, 2026Xianda Du, Max Ku, Weiming Ren +5Multi-Image Editing BenchmarksSynthetic Image Detection

    University of Waterloo · National Taiwan University · Nanyang Technological University +1

  3. PCB-MC: Missing Component Analysis in Printed Circuit Boards

    Sep 30, 2026Betsy Villa Brochero, Ian Gibson, Estefania TalaveraPrinted Circuit BoardDefect Detection

    EEMCS-CS-DMB University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands · ET-DPM-AMSPES University of Twente Enschede, The Netherlands

  4. DCM-SAM: Defect-Conditioned Mixture of LoRA Experts for NPU-Deployed AM Defect Segmentation

    Sep 30, 2026Md Mushfiqur Rahaman, Md Mahedi Hasan, Imtiaz Ahmed +1Defect DetectionSlices

    Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV · School of Mathematical and Data Sciences West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV · Lane Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

  5. TEEP-RCNN: Texture-Enhanced Edge-aware Perception for Steel Surface Defect Detection via Improved Convolutional Block Attention in Faster R-CNN

    Sep 23, 2026Kirtan RajeshDefect DetectionConvolutional Block Attention Module

    Independent Researcher

  6. Leakage-Safe Machine Learning for Hydrogen Embrittlement Detection in 316L Stainless Steel: A Region-Held-Out Evaluation of Texture and Deep Features in SEM Micrographs

    Sep 23, 2026Muhammad Awais, Muhammad Yaseen, Abdul Shakoor +3Shape-Memory AlloyElectron Microscopy

    Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “G. Galilei”, Università di Padova, Italy · Institute of Physics, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan

  7. GenVoid: Uncertainty-Aware Learning of Subsurface Material Defects with an Experimentally Validated Physics-Informed Generative Model

    Sep 20, 2026Trishit Mondal, Prajwal Bharadwaj, Nikhil Karanjgaokar +1Subsurface ScatteringPhysics-Informed Learning

    Aerospace Engineering Department, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609, USA.

  8. IdeaAMBIG: Benchmarking Implementation-Critical Gaps in Research-Idea Specifications

    Sep 9, 2026Yiling Ma, Yilun Zhao, Sihong Wu +2ReproducibilityResearch Automation

    Yale University · TCS Research

  9. Positional task conditioning for scalable defect detection across product families in large product catalogs

    Sep 9, 2026Soham Satyadharma, Gabriel Roccabruna, Suleiman A. KhanDefect DetectionLarge Language Model Pipelines

    Amazon Catalog AI

  10. Explainable Temporal Attention-based Defect Detection For Fillet Joints in Real-Time Gas Metal Arc Welding Based on Multi-modal Data

    Sep 7, 2026Mobina Mobaraki, Mahyar Asadi, Klaske Van Heusden +1Defect DetectionDefect

    University of British Columbia- Vancouver campus, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, V6T 1Z4, British Columbia, Canada · Novarc Technologies Inc., 1225 E Keith Rd, North Vancouver, V7J 1J3, British Columbia, Canada · University of British Columbia, Kelowna campus, 3333 University Way, Kelowna, V1V 1V7, British Columbia, Canada

  11. SafeRestore: Detector-Relative Risk Certificates for Selective Industrial Image Restoration

    Sep 3, 2026Shaoliang Yang, Jun WangImage RestorationRestoration

    Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA 95053, USA

  12. Integrated Laser Scanning and Image-Based Topology Optimization Techniques for Detection and Quantification of Visible and Subsurface Structural Defects

    Sep 1, 2026Mehrdad Shafiei Dizaji, Devin HarrisDefect DetectionSubsurface Scattering

    Department of Engineering Systems and Environment, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

  13. SAM3-LoRA: Parameter-Efficient Adaptation of a Concept-Promptable Foundation Model for Multi-Class Structural Defect Segmentation

    Aug 31, 2026P. Malaisree, S. Youwai, S. Janrungautai +3Few-Shot SegmentationWireless Foundation Models

    MAA Consultants Co., Ltd. · AI Research Group, Department of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut´s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT). · School of Engineering, University of Phayao. +2

  14. SePArate: Segmenting Patterns from Defects in Wafer Manufacturing Using Weak Supervision

    Aug 31, 2026Dain Kwon, Changmin Shin, Sunjong Park +5Defect DetectionSemiconductor Manufacturing

    Seoul National University · SK Hynix

  15. A Generative Approach for Improving Multi-Label Defect Classification in Photovoltaic Modules

    Aug 13, 2026Abdul Mueez, Yogesh S. Rawat, Shruti VyasDefect DetectionPhotovoltaic

    Institute of Artificial Intelligence, University of Central Florida, 4356 Scorpius St., Orlando, FL 32816, United States of America

  16. RMR-Net: Degradation-Evidence-Guided Road-Image Restoration for Defect Detection

    Aug 9, 2026Amir Ghorbani, Amirali K. Gostar, WeiQin Chuah +3PavementImage Restoration

    School of Engineering, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia

  17. RobustDefect-LLM: Explainable and Robustness-Aware Industrial Surface Defect Classification with Decision Support and AI-Assisted Reporting

    Aug 9, 2026Nazlıcan Düşünmez, Halûk GümüşkayaDefect DetectionInspection

    Department of Computer Engineering, İstanbul Arel University, 34537 Istanbul, Türkiye

  18. Machine-Learning-Based Diagnostic Framework for Passive Ultrasonic Detection of Railway Wheel Defects

    Aug 8, 2026Aashish Shaju, Steve Southward, Mehdi AhmadianDefect DetectionRobotic Ultrasound

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

  19. From Benchmark Performance to Tool Deployment: Human-in-the-Loop Anomaly Detection

    Aug 7, 2026Mike Szklarzewski, CJ George, Gavin Smithson +10Multimodal Industrial Anomaly DetectionGraph Anomaly Detection

    Department of Computing Sciences, Coastal Carolina University, Conway, SC, USA · High Performance Computing Design, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA · Academy of Arts Science and Technology, Horry County School District, Myrtle Beach, SC, USA +3

  20. STC-Net: Electroluminescence-Based Solar Cell Crack Segmentation for Power Loss Estimation

    Aug 3, 2026Shanaka Ramesh Gunasekara, Akila Eranda Devanarayana, Imasha Guruge +2PhotovoltaicDefect Detection

    RMIT University Melbourne, Australia · University of Jaffna Jaffna, Sri Lanka · Clean Energy Council Melbourne, Australia

  21. BladeYOLO: Wind Turbine Blade Defect Detection with Limited Annotations and Weak-Saliency Awareness

    Jul 30, 2026Yabin Xu, Fangtao Zhang, Fan Wang +5Defect DetectionYolo26

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China · Department of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Zhejiang Energy Digital Technology Co., Ltd, Hangzhou 311100, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China +1

  22. ScratchSim: A Procedural Synthetic Data Pipeline for Surface Scratch Detection

    Jul 29, 2026Paul Julius Kühn, Saptarshi Neil Sinha, Tiago Kleist +3Defect DetectionSynthetic Training Data

    Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt, Germany · Fraunhofer IGD, Darmstadt Germany · Fraunhofer IGD & TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany +1

  23. Synthetic data generation framework for quality control automation in gravure printing

    Jul 23, 2026Korota Arsène Coulibaly, Mohamed Hamlich, Khalid Hmali +1Defect DetectionSynthetic Image Detection

    LCCPS Lab, ENSAM, Hassan II University of Casablanca, 150 Bd du Nil, Casablanca, 20670, , Morocco · Plastima, Commune Chellalat, Route Secondaire 3002, Mohammedia, Casablanca, , , Morroco

  24. SPDCN: Strip-based Deformable Convolutional Network for Steel Surface Defect Segmentation

    Jul 23, 2026Zhongming Liu, Bingbing Jiang, Guangxin Wan +1Defect DetectionDeformable Cnn

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China · Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing and Affective Computing, School of Artificial Intelligence, Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, 330022, China

  25. XCT-SAM: Sequential Parameter-Efficient Domain Adaptation of SAM for Industrial XCT Defect Segmentation

    Jul 15, 2026Md Mahedi Hasan, Md Mushfiqur Rahaman, Alan Pachkovskiy +3Defect DetectionDomain Adaptation

    Lane Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV · Department of Industrial and Management Engineering West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV · School of Mathematical and Data Sciences West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

  26. A Masked Autoencoder Approach to Unsupervised Steel Surface Defect Recognition

    Jul 14, 2026Shrey PatelDefect Detection3D Masked Autoencoders

    University of Maryland, College Park · United States of America

  27. Rough Path Signature-Guided Geometry Augmentation for Few-Shot Industrial Surface Defect Detection

    Jul 14, 2026Jiaqi KuangDefect DetectionYolo26

    Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research, University of Oxford Suzhou, China

  28. ScratNet: A Swin-Based Multi-Scale Dilated Network with Precision Refinement for Semiconductor Scratch Segmentation

    Jul 11, 2026Sachin Ranjan, Hoon KimMulti-Scale ConvolutionDefect Detection

    Machine Intelligence and Data Science (MINDS) Lab and the M.S. Program in Electronics Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, South Korea · Machine Intelligence and Data Science (MINDS) Lab and the Department of Electronics Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, South Korea

  29. FedTR: Federated Learning Framework with Transfer Learning for Industrial Visual Inspection

    Jul 9, 2026Vikash Sathiamoorthy, Shuo Huai, Hao Kong +7Federated LearningTransfer Learning

    HP-NTU Digital Manufacturing Corporate Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway +2

  30. Multi-Conditioned Diffusion Synthesis of Sand Boils for Low-Resource Earthen-Levee Inspection

    Jul 8, 2026Padam Jung Thapa, Abdullah Bin Naeem, Ayon Dey +2Synthetic Image DetectionText-Conditioned Diffusion Model

    University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, LA, USA · Department of Computer Science, Louisiana State University New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA

  31. ICME 2026 Grand Challenge on Cross-Scenario Defect Detection and Fine-Grained Severity Grading for High-Precision Manufacturing

    Jul 6, 2026Wei Sun, Weixia Zhang, Linhan Cao +30Defect DetectionPixel-Level Annotation

    East China Normal University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, and Universit´e de Nantes.

  32. An Integrated Hardware-Software Design for Low-Data Spatial Defect Detection in Robotic Visual Inspection with Hybrid Optoelectronic Neural Networks

    Jun 24, 2026Chaoqing Tang, Jiaxuan Li, Huanze Zhuang +4Defect DetectionFeature Extraction

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China · China Belt and Road Joint Lab on Measurement and Control, Wuhan, 430074, China · School of Electric and Electrical Engineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing, 400054, China +1

  33. Visual Quality Score Assessment of Large White Goods in Remanufacture with Multi-View Deformable-DETR

    Jun 12, 2026Paul Koch, Vivek ChavanDefect DetectionInspection

    Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik (IPK), Pascalstraße 8-9, 10587 Berlin, Germany

  34. Context-Aware Deep Learning for Defect Classification in Atomic-Resolution STEM

    Jun 8, 2026Jiadong Dan, Cheng Zhang, Leyi Loh +5Electron MicroscopyDefect Detection

    Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore · Centre for BioImaging Sciences (CBIS), National University of Singapore, Singapore · Department of Materials Science and Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, China +5

  35. Failure-Aware Refinement of Vision-Language Model for Lithography Defect Detection

    Jun 8, 2026Pangyun Jeong, Jiyeong Kong, Yuehua Hu +2Defect DetectionLithography

    1HYU-KITECH Joint Department, Hanyang University, Ansan, 15588, Korea · 4Korea Institute of Industrial Technology, Ansan, 15588, Korea · 2Micro/Nano System Department, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea +1

  36. Attention-Guided Autoencoder Fusion for Insulator Defect Detection Using UAV Transmission-Line Imaging

    Jun 3, 2026Malak Allam, Khaled Shaban, Ali HamdiDefect DetectionYolo26

    Faculty of Computer Science MSA University Giza, Egypt · Department of Computer Science and Engineering Qatar University Doha, Qatar

  37. Structure-Guided Mixed Masked Pretraining and Spatial Continuity Regularization for Printed Circuit Board Defect Detection

    Jun 2, 2026Peitong Wang, Nuo Wang, Enxin Qin +3Defect DetectionPrinted Circuit Board

    School of Big Data and Statistics, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei, 230601, China · School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, China +1

  38. Improving Combined Detection and Classification of TEM Defects via Mask-Conditioned Latent Diffusion Augmentation

    Jun 1, 2026Ni Li, Nuohao Liu, Ryan Jacobs +5Defect DetectionMedical Image Generation

    University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI · University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI

  39. Contrastive Augmented Transformer with Domain-specific Enhancement for Robust Multi-scenario Metal Surface Defect Detection

    Jun 1, 2026Yiyao Liu, Wenxiao He, Liyuan Ren +1Defect DetectionFeature Pyramid

    Glasgow College, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China · Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing, China · Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

  40. RefDiffNet: Learning to Expose Subtle PCB Defects Before Detection

    May 30, 2026Vinay Edula, Nilesh Badwe, Priyanka BagadeDefect DetectionPrinted Circuit Board

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur, India · Department of Materials Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur Kanpur, India

  41. Low-Magnification SEM May Suffice: Interpretable Deep Learning for Multi-Scale Fracture-Cause Classification in Zirconia-Toughened Alumina

    May 28, 2026Julian Schmid, Pawel Astankow, Tom Vater +3Electron MicroscopyDefect Detection

    CeramTec GmbH, CeramTec-Platz 1–9, 73207 Plochingen, Germany · CeramTec

  42. NL-MambaXCT: Self-Supervised Nested-Learning Mamba for Nomex Honeycomb X-ray CT Defect Classification

    May 25, 2026Ghaleb Aldoboni, Lobna Nassar, Fakhri Karray +1Defect DetectionCone-Beam Computed Tomography

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK), Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates · Department of Machine Learning, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates · Centre for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada +1

  43. A Universal Cliff and a Design Fingerprint: Cross-Section Defect Detection Under LLM Orchestration

    May 25, 2026Hiroki FukuiDefectLarge Language Model Workflows

    Research Institute of Criminal Psychiatry · Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University

  44. From Full Boards to Tiny Defects: Scale-Aware Tile Inference with Topology-Aware Merging for High-Resolution PCB Defect Detection

    May 23, 2026Mohammad Alijanpour Shalmani, Alale Rezvani Boroujeni, Ali Amini +1Defect DetectionPrinted Circuit Board

    Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando, FL 32816 · Dept. of Marketing, 4000 Central Florida Blvd., Orlando, FL 32816 · Centre of Real Time Computer Systems, Faculty of Informatics, Kaunas University of Technology, K. Donelaičio g. 73, Kaunas, Lithuania, 44249

  45. FDDet: Achieving Data-Efficient Food Defect Detection Under Real-World Scenarios

    May 23, 2026Ruihao Xu, Yong Liu, Yansong TangDefect DetectionUnsupervised Detection

    Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University

  46. Interpretable Computer Vision for Defect Detection in X-ray Tomography of Aerospace SiC/SiC Composites

    May 19, 2026Antonio Peña Corredor, Julien Lesseur, Romain Nunez +2Defect DetectionCone-Beam Computed Tomography

    SES · 1IRT Saint Exup´ery, Toulouse, France · 2Safran Ceramics, Le Haillan, France +1

  47. Network Knowledge Prior Guided Learning for Data-Efficient Surface Defect Detection

    May 18, 2026Hang-Cheng Dong, Guodong Liu, Dong Ye +1Defect DetectionInterpretability

    School of Instrumentation Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China · Harbin Institute of Technology Suzhou Research Institute, Suzhou, China

  48. Hybrid Quantum-MambaVision: A Quantum-enhanced State Space Model for Calibrated Mixed-type Wafer Defect Detection

    May 13, 2026Satwik Sai Prakash Sahoo, Jyoti Prakash Sahoo, Ting Wang +1Hybrid Quantum-Classical PipelineDefect Detection

    Odisha University of Technology and Research, Bhubaneswar, India · National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan · East China Normal University, Shanghai, China +1

  49. Understanding Generalization through Decision Pattern Shift

    May 13, 2026Huiqi Deng, Yibo Li, Quanshi Zhang +3Improved GeneralizationIntra-Class

    Xi’an Jiaotong University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

  50. Contour-Native Bridge Defect Detection and Compact Digital Archiving with Frequency-Supervised Fourier Contours

    May 9, 2026Jin Liu, Wang Wang, Hongxu Pu +4Defect DetectionContours

    State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China · Sustainability X-Lab, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · Department of Cyber Security, Southeast University, No. 2, Southeast University Road, Nanjing, 211102, China +2

  51. UniPCB: A Generation-Assisted Detection Framework for PCB Defect Inspection

    May 6, 2026Huan Zhang, Lianghong Tan, Yichu Xu +5Defect DetectionInspection

    School of Information Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China · School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China

  52. Training-Free Tunnel Defect Inspection and Engineering Interpretation via Visual Recalibration and Entity Reconstruction

    Apr 30, 2026Shipeng Liu, Liang Zhao, Dengfeng Chen +1Defect DetectionInspection

    Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, School of mechanical and electrical engineering, Xi’an, 710055, Shaanxi, China · Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, School of Information and Control Engineering, Xi’an, 710055, Shaanxi, China · Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology, School of Civil Engineering, Xi’an, 710055, Shaanxi, China

  53. SynSur: An end-to-end generative pipeline for synthetic industrial surface defect generation and detection

    Apr 29, 2026Paul Julius Kühn, Mika Pommeranz, Arjan Kuijper +1Defect DetectionSynthetic Data

    Fraunhofer IGD, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany

  54. Defective Task Descriptions in LLM-Based Code Generation: Detection and Analysis

    Apr 27, 2026Amal Akli, Mike Papadakis, Maxime Cordy +1Code GenerationLarge Language Model Generation

    University of Luxembourg Luxembourg

  55. SolarFCD: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Solar Fault Classification in Photovoltaic Systems

    Apr 26, 2026Misbah Ijaz, Saif Ur Rehman Khan, Abd Ur Rehman +4PhotovoltaicDefect Detection

    Department of Computer Science, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, 51700,2026 Pakistan. · Department of Computer Science, Rhineland-Palatinate TechnicalApr University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern, 67663, Germany. · 3German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Kaiserslautern, 67663, Germany.

  56. Accelerating New Product Introduction for Visual Quality Inspection via Few-Shot Diffusion-Based Defect Synthesis

    Apr 22, 2026Serkan Hamdi Güğül, Kemal Levi, Burak AcarDefect DetectionInspection

    Relimetrics, Inc.

  57. Feature Perturbation Pool-based Fusion Network for Unified Multi-Class Industrial Defect Detection

    Apr 21, 2026Yuanchan Xu, Wenjun Zang, Ying WuDefect DetectionFeature Pyramid

    School of Information Engineering, Sichuan University, China

  58. Industrial Surface Defect Detection via Diffusion Generation and Asymmetric Student-Teacher Network

    Apr 21, 2026Shuo Feng, Runlin Zhou, Yuyang Li +1Defect DetectionDenoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model

    School of Automation, Southeast University, Nanjing, China

  59. When Can We Trust Deep Neural Networks? Towards Reliable Industrial Deployment with an Interpretability Guide

    Apr 21, 2026Hang-Cheng Dong, Yuhao Jiang, Yibo Jiao +5Trustworthy Artificial IntelligenceDefect Detection

  60. DeltaSeg: Tiered Attention and Deep Delta Learning for Multi-Class Structural Defect Segmentation

    Apr 20, 2026Enrique Hernandez Noguera, Md Meftahul Ferdaus, Elias Ioup +1U-NetDefect Detection

    University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA · Center for Geospatial Sciences, Naval Research Laboratory, Hancock County, MS, USA