Latest Research in Industrial Defect Monitoring

Top Research Topics in Industrial Defect Monitoring

• Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring — 54 papers
• Industrial Vision Systems and Defect Detection — 32 papers
• Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 25 papers
• Advanced Neural Network Applications — 19 papers
• Welding Techniques and Residual Stresses — 6 papers
• Ultrasonics and Acoustic Wave Propagation — 4 papers
• Textile materials and evaluations — 3 papers
• Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes — 3 papers
• Wind Energy Research and Development — 2 papers
• Machine Learning — 2 papers

Highest-Cited Papers

1. Evaluating YOLO26s for Multi-Class Pavement Crack Detection: A Lightweight Approach for Sustainable Edge Deployment
2. Automated detection of edge trimming-induced delamination in GFRPs using SIFT-based image registration and differencing
3. Instance Segmentation of Underground Roadway Fractures Based on an Improved YOLOv13n-Seg
4. YOLOv13-ADR: An Adaptive Deformable Convolution and Neighborhood-Aware Recombination Network for Wind Turbine Blade Defect Detection
5. Image-Only Automated Garment Sorting for Textile Reuse and Recycling Using a Multi-Model AI Framework
6. Rendering Synthetic Defects for Learning‐Based Industrial Inspection
7. Morphology-aware supervision improves real-time wind turbine blade defect localization in unstructured natural environments
8. Automated Detection and Segmentation of Cracks in Urban Underground Structures Based on YOLOv8-SAM2
9. Automated Borehole Core Analysis with Report-Derived Weak Labels and Supervised Crack Segmentation
10. Learnable Residual Local Binary Patterns: A Pretraining-Preserving Architecture for Cotton Percentage Estimation in RGB Fabric Images
11. An optimized YOLOv11-based model for surface defect detection on valve stems in refrigeration equipment
12. XrayCLIP: A VLM-Based X-Ray Security Inspection System for Railway Safety
13. Vision-based automated optical inspection for real-time quality control: hybrid single-camera deep-learning AOI for mixed-SKU bottling lines
14. Physics-guided label-free ultrasonic testing of high-speed rail wheels with diffusion models
15. HGNetV2-YOLO: An Efficient and Lightweight Framework for Mechanical Component Detection in Industrial Scenes
16. Classical Computer Vision for Automated Quality Inspection: A Reproducible Study Integrating SPC and Process Capability
17. A lightweight multi-scale selective detector for UAV-based building facade defect detection
18. Classical Computer Vision for Automated Quality Inspection: A Reproducible Study Integrating SPC and Process Capability
19. Pseudo defect guided meta calibration for few shot industrial defect segmentation
20. Semantic segmentation and quantitative analysis of tunnel cracks and water leakage using a TransUNet framework

Sub-Regions

• Automated Visual Quality Inspection — 114 papers
• Structural Integrity Surface Assessment — 55 papers
• Public Infrastructure Defect Monitoring — 19 papers
• Industrial Safety and Technical Pedagogy — 10 papers