System and method for performing visual inspection using synthetically generated images

A method comprising:

• receiving one or more images of a manufactured component assembly;
• receiving one or more images of sub-components of the component assembly;
• virtually assembling models for different sub-components of the component assembly;
• rendering the sub-component models into images of various component assembly variants;
• and
• collecting the images of the various component assembly variants into a training dataset to train a machine learning system.

A system comprising:

• a data processor;
• an image receiver in data communication with the data processor, the image receiver configured to receive one or more images of a compliant manufactured component, the image receiver also configured to receive images of component defects;
• and
• a synthetic training data generation system executable by the data processor, the synthetic training data generation system configured to:
• use the images of component defects to produce a variety of different synthetically-generated images of defects;
• combine the synthetically-generated images of defects with the one or more images of the compliant manufactured component to produce synthetically-generated images of a non-compliant manufactured component;
• and
• collect the one or more images of the compliant manufactured component with the synthetically-generated images of the non-compliant manufactured component into a training dataset to train a machine learning system.

A method comprising:

• receiving one or more images of a compliant manufactured component;
• receiving images of component defects;
• using the images of component defects to produce a variety of different synthetically-generated images of defects;
• combining the synthetically-generated images of defects with the one or more images of the compliant manufactured component to produce synthetically-generated images of a non-compliant manufactured component;
• and
• collecting the one or more images of the compliant manufactured component with the synthetically-generated images of the non-compliant manufactured component into a training dataset to train a machine learning system.

A system comprising:

• a data processor;
• an image receiver in data communication with the data processor, the image receiver configured to receive one or more images of features of a manufactured component;
• and
• a synthetic training data generation system executable by the data processor, the synthetic training data generation system configured to:
• use the images of component features to produce a variety of different synthetically-generated images of component features;
• collect the different synthetically-generated images of component features into a training dataset to train a machine learning system.

A method comprising:

• receiving one or more images of features of a manufactured component;
• using the images of component features to produce a variety of different synthetically-generated images of component features;
• and
• collecting the different synthetically-generated images of component features into a training dataset to train a machine learning system.