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Evaluating Modern Visual Anomaly Detection Approaches in Semiconductor Manufacturing: A Comparative Study

Published: May 12, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2505.07576v1

By: Manuel Barusco , Francesco Borsatti , Youssef Ben Khalifa and more

Potential Business Impact:

Finds tiny flaws in computer chips automatically.

Business Areas:
Image Recognition Data and Analytics, Software

Semiconductor manufacturing is a complex, multistage process. Automated visual inspection of Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) images is indispensable for minimizing equipment downtime and containing costs. Most previous research considers supervised approaches, assuming a sufficient number of anomalously labeled samples. On the contrary, Visual Anomaly Detection (VAD), an emerging research domain, focuses on unsupervised learning, avoiding the costly defect collection phase while providing explanations of the predictions. We introduce a benchmark for VAD in the semiconductor domain by leveraging the MIIC dataset. Our results demonstrate the efficacy of modern VAD approaches in this field.

Country of Origin
🇮🇹 Italy

Page Count
8 pages

Category
Computer Science:
CV and Pattern Recognition