Accurate crack assessment in electroluminescence (EL) images is important for photovoltaic (PV) reliability analysis, yet existing segmentation methods often fail to capture the thin, elongated, and structurally constrained nature of crack defects. This paper proposes a Solar Topology Crack Network (STC-Net) that incorporates edge priors, spectral priors, and a boundary-topology refinement module to improve crack continuity and boundary preservation.
Automated solar filament detection using deep learning faces several challenges. Semantic segmentation of solar filaments is a complicated multiscale feature extraction task with long-tail distribution.
arXiv:2607. 08794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sand boils on earthen levees are safety-critical defects, but pixel-level detection is limited by scarce annotations.
The precise pixel-level localization of 2D material flakes is crucial for high-throughput screening. However, traditional fully supervised methods rely on dense annotations, which are costly and time-consuming, severely limiting the practical deployment of segmentation models.
arXiv:2606. 08908v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semiconductor lithography inspection requires reliable detection of small pattern defects such as bridge, burr, pinch, and contamination.
Steel surface defect segmentation is critical for industrial quality inspection, yet existing methods struggle with elongated, anisotropic defects such as cracks and scratches due to the isotropic receptive fields of standard convolutions and rigid sampling grids that cannot adapt to irregular defect boundaries. To address these limitations, we propose Strip-based Predictor for Deformable Convolutional Networks (SPDCN) with two key innovations.
arXiv:2606. 03069v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generalized segmentation of medical images prevents performance degradation when different imaging devices and clinical protocols are used across multiple domains.
Despite generating increasingly photorealistic images, text-to-image (T2I) models still exhibit localized, subtle, and structurally complex failures. Diagnosing these failures requires instance-level feedback that answers where a defect occurs, what type it is, why it is defective, and its importance to overall image quality.
arXiv:2604. 23814v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Urban environments contain many imaging sensors built for specific purposes, including ATM, body-worn, CCTV, and dashboard cameras.
arXiv:2606. 09419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artificial intelligence is rapidly advancing materials characterization, yet most applications in electron microscopy rely solely on image contrast, overlooking the chemical and experimental context that shapes image formation.
arXiv:2607. 09382v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work aims to develop a fast and physically consistent surrogate model for real-time structural health monitoring of fractured elastic domains.
arXiv:2506. 01678v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) is a powerful technique for imaging surfaces with atomic resolution, providing insight into physical and chemical processes at the level of single atoms and molecules.
arXiv:2607. 04188v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Intelligent industrial maintenance critically relies on reliable fault diagnosis of rotating machinery.