UniPCB: A Generation-Assisted Detection Framework for PCB Defect Inspection

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Main Authors: Zhang, Huan, Tan, Lianghong, Xu, Yichu, Su, Zishan, Cao, Jiangzhong, Wu, Huanqi, Zhu, Linwei, Zhang, Xu
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author Zhang, Huan
Tan, Lianghong
Xu, Yichu
Su, Zishan
Cao, Jiangzhong
Wu, Huanqi
Zhu, Linwei
Zhang, Xu
author_facet Zhang, Huan
Tan, Lianghong
Xu, Yichu
Su, Zishan
Cao, Jiangzhong
Wu, Huanqi
Zhu, Linwei
Zhang, Xu
contents In the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), enabling intelligent, real-time Printed Circuit Board (PCB) defect inspection is critical for ensuring product reliability. However, existing IIoT-based visual inspection systems face two compounding challenges: scarce and imbalanced defect samples that limit model training, and insufficient feature representation under complex circuit backgrounds. Existing generation methods rely on single-modality conditions with coarse structural control, while detection methods improve architectures without addressing the data bottleneck. To resolve both challenges jointly, we propose a generation-assisted PCB defect inspection framework that integrates controlled defect synthesis with task-specific defect detection within an IIoT-enabled pipeline. On the generation side, a Multi-modal Condition Generator extracts complementary edge, depth, and text conditions in parallel. A ScaleEncoder then embeds these conditions into the diffusion U-Net at four resolutions, and a Condition Modulation applies FiLM-style spatially-adaptive modulation at each scale, enabling structurally aligned and defect-aware sample synthesis to augment the scarce IIoT dataset. On the detection side, an Inverted Residual Shift Attention couples self-attention with shift-wise convolution to jointly capture global context and local texture, and a Cross-level Complementary Fusion Block generates pixel-level gates for selective cross-level feature fusion. The synthesized samples directly enrich the detection training set, so that improvements in generation compound with improvements in detection. Extensive experiments on DsPCBSD+ demonstrate that UniPCB achieves mAP@0.5 of 98.0% and mAP@0.5:0.95 of 61.8% on defect detection, surpassing all compared methods, while the generation branch attains an FID of 129.61 and SSIM of 0.619, outperforming existing conditional generation approaches.
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spellingShingle UniPCB: A Generation-Assisted Detection Framework for PCB Defect Inspection
Zhang, Huan
Tan, Lianghong
Xu, Yichu
Su, Zishan
Cao, Jiangzhong
Wu, Huanqi
Zhu, Linwei
Zhang, Xu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
In the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), enabling intelligent, real-time Printed Circuit Board (PCB) defect inspection is critical for ensuring product reliability. However, existing IIoT-based visual inspection systems face two compounding challenges: scarce and imbalanced defect samples that limit model training, and insufficient feature representation under complex circuit backgrounds. Existing generation methods rely on single-modality conditions with coarse structural control, while detection methods improve architectures without addressing the data bottleneck. To resolve both challenges jointly, we propose a generation-assisted PCB defect inspection framework that integrates controlled defect synthesis with task-specific defect detection within an IIoT-enabled pipeline. On the generation side, a Multi-modal Condition Generator extracts complementary edge, depth, and text conditions in parallel. A ScaleEncoder then embeds these conditions into the diffusion U-Net at four resolutions, and a Condition Modulation applies FiLM-style spatially-adaptive modulation at each scale, enabling structurally aligned and defect-aware sample synthesis to augment the scarce IIoT dataset. On the detection side, an Inverted Residual Shift Attention couples self-attention with shift-wise convolution to jointly capture global context and local texture, and a Cross-level Complementary Fusion Block generates pixel-level gates for selective cross-level feature fusion. The synthesized samples directly enrich the detection training set, so that improvements in generation compound with improvements in detection. Extensive experiments on DsPCBSD+ demonstrate that UniPCB achieves mAP@0.5 of 98.0% and mAP@0.5:0.95 of 61.8% on defect detection, surpassing all compared methods, while the generation branch attains an FID of 129.61 and SSIM of 0.619, outperforming existing conditional generation approaches.
title UniPCB: A Generation-Assisted Detection Framework for PCB Defect Inspection
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.04635