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New geometry augmentation boosts few-shot industrial defect detection

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Researchers have developed a new method called rough path signature-guided geometry augmentation (RPS-GA) to improve few-shot industrial surface defect detection. This technique treats Canny edge contours as planar paths and uses their signature responses to highlight boundary structures. When tested with an unmodified YOLOv8n detector on NEU-DET and PCB-Defect datasets, RPS-GA significantly boosted performance, particularly in low-data scenarios, outperforming baselines and enabling detection even when standard methods failed. AI

IMPACT This method could improve the efficiency of industrial quality control by enabling accurate defect detection with fewer labeled examples.

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Jiaqi Kuang ·

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

    arXiv:2607.12245v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Few-shot industrial defect detection remains difficult for standard supervised detectors, which achieve poor performance on boundary-dominated industrial defects. This paper proposes rough path signature-guided geometry augmentati…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Jiaqi Kuang ·

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

    Few-shot industrial defect detection remains difficult for standard supervised detectors, which achieve poor performance on boundary-dominated industrial defects. This paper proposes rough path signature-guided geometry augmentation (RPS-GA), a geometry-aware approach in which Ca…

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