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Digital twin generates synthetic data for C-SMC inspection

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Researchers have developed a process-informed, photorealistic digital twin to generate synthetic image data for the inline inspection of carbon-fiber Sheet Molding Compound (SMC) strip deposition. This digital twin simulates deposition kinematics and uses a physically grounded rendering model to produce realistic images with precise, synchronized labels, including oriented bounding boxes and polarization renderings. Trained exclusively on this synthetic data, the YOLOv11 and CSRNet models achieved high detection mAP50 scores, demonstrating the effectiveness of the synthetic-to-real transfer for improving quality assurance in manufacturing. AI

IMPACT Enables more efficient and accurate quality control in manufacturing through synthetic data generation for AI models.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing a new method for generating synthetic data for computer vision tasks. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Digital twin generates synthetic data for C-SMC inspection

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Patrick Flore, Fabian R\"oder, Kevin Chen, Andreas Gebhard ·

    A Process-Informed, Photorealistic Digital Twin for Vision-Based Inline Inspection of C-SMC Strip Deposition

    arXiv:2610.28050v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inline quality assurance for Sheet Molding Compound (SMC) manufacturing is hindered by the lack of large-scale, accurately labeled image datasets for training machine-learning models. This work presents a process-informed, photoreal…

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