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Are Foundation Models Ready for Industrial Defect Recognition? A Reality Check

2 days ago
  • #Foundation Models
  • #Industrial Defect Recognition
  • #Automated Quality Inspection
  • Foundation Models (FMs) demonstrate strong generalization in text and image tasks.
  • Potential application in automated quality inspection for manufacturing to reduce labeling efforts.
  • FMs tested on real-world industrial data perform poorly despite success on public benchmarks.
  • Supervised AI models require labeled data and are application-specific, unlike FMs.