Quality Inspection of Printed Circuit Board Pin Insertion via Semantic Segmentation and Board-Level Feature Extraction

📅 2026-08-24
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本文提出了一种基于U-Net语义分割和轮廓特征提取的方法,用于自动检测印刷电路板上的错误插入引脚,提高了质量控制的准确性。
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Quality control during printed circuit board (PCB) assembly is a critical step in ensuring reliable electronic products. Detecting misaligned pins during or after pin insertion remains a particularly challenging inspection task. This paper presents an automated defect detection method for identifying incorrectly inserted pins on PCBs. The proposed pipeline combines semantic segmentation using a U-Net architecture with contour-based feature extraction and logistic regression for board-level pass/fail classification. Segmentation masks are used to derive contour representations of individual pins, from which board-level features -such as average contour size- are extracted and used to train a logistic regression classifier. We evaluate the method on two datasets: an industrial collection of real-world PCB images, and a publicly available PCB pin-inspection dataset with substantially different visual characteristics. To assess the effectiveness of the proposed approach, a comparison against PatchCore, an anomaly detection technique new to be applied to pin inspection, as well as instance segmentation-based pin detection is made. The developed method achieved Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve (ROC-AUC) values of 0.990 on a random test set split from the industrial data and 1.000 on the public dataset indicating strong separation between pass and fail boards. The results indicate that the proposed approach is a promising candidate for automated pin inspection in industrial environments and achieves strong performance on datasets with substantially different visual characteristics after dataset-specific training.
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Quality Control
Printed Circuit Board
Pin Insertion
Defect Detection
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Semantic Segmentation
U-Net
Contour-based Feature Extraction
Logistic Regression
Pin Insertion
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