arXiv:2606. 01023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual inspection remains the dominant quality-control practice in woven and tufted carpet production, yet it is slow, subjective, and inconsistent at the line speeds and widths of modern looms.
By Akbar Erkinov
arXiv:2604. 26633v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Industrial surface defect inspection suffers from a fundamental data bottleneck: defects are rare, annotations require expert knowledge, and collecting balanced training sets is slow and costly.
By Paul Julius K\"uhn, Mika Pommeranz, Arjan Kuijper, Saptarshi Neil Sinha
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.
arXiv:2607. 28126v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon steel-equipment inspection requires reasoning over heterogeneous records accumulated across repeated inspection cycles.
By Bingchen Liu, Yuanyuan Fang, Lei Liu, Guangyuan Dong, Xing Fu, Yuanyuan Gao, Shuyue Wei, Xin Li, Xiangtian Meng
arXiv:2606. 00052v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As Industry 4.
By MD Shafikul Islam, Jordan Carden
arXiv:2607. 16243v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal industrial anomaly inspection assistants are a critical component of next-generation smart factories, enabling interactive vision-language-based querying.
By Anushiya Arunan, Xin Li, Yan Qin, U-Xuan Tan, Nhu Khue Vuong, Xiaoli Li, Chau Yuen