The paper presents a multi‑modal deep learning model that uses temporal attention to detect internal welding defects such as porosity, lack of penetration, fusion, undercut, and cold lap in fillet joints during real‑time Gas Metal Arc Welding. Trained on images and sound data from an industrial collaborative welding robot, the model achieves an F1 score of 0.99. Explainable AI techniques are applied to interpret the model’s behavior, highlighting key image and sound spectrogram regions and the most effective modality for each defect type, thereby enhancing trust and reliability in AI‑driven welding inspection.
By Mobina Mobaraki, Mahyar Asadi, Klaske Van Heusden, Guy A. Dumont
The study evaluates automatic weld seam segmentation using RGB and polarimetric images, comparing convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformer architectures. In controlled RGB settings, CNNs achieve a mean mask mAP50 of up to 0.87, but performance drops significantly under uncontrolled conditions. Polarimetric imaging, combined with geometric augmentation, reaches a mean mask mAP50 of up to 093 even in uncontrolled settings, and transformer models, especially RF‑DETR, maintain high accuracy under viewpoint shifts while CNNs fail.
By Simone Garbin, Leonardo Venturoso, Marco Todescato
arXiv:2607. 06150v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reliable seam segmentation is essential for autonomous robotic welding in construction, where harsh illumination, specular reflections, and thin weld geometries often degrade segmentation performance.
By Keonvin Park, Yong Ann Voeurn, Hyeokjun Kweon, Doyun Lee
arXiv:2606. 23851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work investigates the implementation of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) for real-time monitoring in laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) additive manufacturing.
By Inioluwa Emmanuel, Zhuo Yang, Ho Yeung, Xinyao Zhang
arXiv:2607. 28695v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Here is the plain text version optimized for arXiv's submission form.
By Aryuemaan Kumar Chowdhury
arXiv:2608. 05744v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous workpiece localization is essential for traceability and process coordination in hot forging, but direct tracking is unreliable because of extreme temperatures, surface degradation, and irregular routing.
By Dohyeon Kong, Jaebong Cho, Hyunbo Cho
The article explores physics-informed and hybrid machine learning approaches for predicting bond quality and porosity in fused filament fabrication (FFF) parts. It examines three strategies—embedding physics constraints in the loss function, adding physics model outputs as inputs, and pre‑training with physics data—to enforce consistency with physical laws. Eight combinations of these strategies are tested, showing that integrating multiple approaches yields accurate predictions even with limited experimental data.
By Berkcan Kapusuzoglu, Sankaran Mahadevan
This paper presents the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2026 Grand Challenge on Cross-Scenario Defect Detection and Fine-Grained Severity Grading for High-Precision Manufacturing. The challenge is motivated by two key limitations of existing industrial defect inspection systems: (1) current deep learning-based methods often suffer significant performance degradation when deployed in unseen production scenarios, and (2) most benchmarks neglect severity-aware assessment, which is critical for risk control and yield optimization.
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OptiModNet is a lightweight UNet‑Transformer hybrid designed for optic disc and cup segmentation. It incorporates grouped‑query and channel attention across multiple stages, along with an Aggregated Pyramid Loss to improve gradient flow and structural consistency. Evaluated on the REFUGE2 dataset, it surpasses existing methods by over 2.5 % while using only 3.73 GFLOPs and 1.93 M parameters.
By Soumili Ghosh, Debapriya Roy, Aryan Das, Bikash Santra
The paper presents a deep‑learning crater detection algorithm (CDA) based on the OWLv2 Vision Transformer, fine‑tuned with Low‑Rank Adaptation on a manually labeled IMPACT dataset. It optimizes a combined loss of CIoU for localization and contrastive loss for classification, achieving a maximum recall of 92.6% and precision of 71.4% on lunar images. The method demonstrates reliable crater detection under varied illumination and rugged terrain, supporting safer lunar landings.
By Patrick Bauer, Marius Schwinning, Florian Renk, Andreas Weinmann, Hichem Snoussi
arXiv:2606. 19934v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current machine learning models commonly require large and well-annotated datasets.
By Marta Fernandez-Moreno, Margarita Guerrero, Rosalia Rementeria, Pablo Mesejo, Raul Moreno