System and method for automated surface assessment
AssigneePalo Alto Research Center Incorporated
InventorRobert R. Price
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Abstract
Embodiments described herein provide a system for assessing the surface of an object for detecting contamination or other defects. During operation, the system obtains an input image indicating the contamination on the object and generates a synthetic image using an artificial intelligence (AI) model based on the input image. The synthetic image can indicate the object without the contamination. The system then determines a difference between the input image and the synthetic image to identify an image area corresponding to the contamination. Subsequently, the system generates a contamination map of the contamination by highlighting the image area based on one or more image enhancement operations.
Claims20
A method for mitigating contamination on surface of an object, comprising:
- determining contamination on the surface of the object from one or more images depicting the object;
- determining, using an artificial intelligence (AI) model, a contamination map indicating the contamination, wherein the contamination map comprises depth information of the object;
- projecting the contamination map on a three-dimensional representation of the object;
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- determining, based on the projection, a set of operations to mitigate the contamination from the surface of the object.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions that when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform a method for mitigating contamination on surface of an object, the method comprising:
- determining contamination on the surface of the object from one or more images depicting the object;
- determining, using an artificial intelligence (AI) model, a contamination map indicating the contamination, wherein the contamination map comprises depth information of the object;
- projecting the contamination map on a three-dimensional representation of the object;
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- determining, based on the projection, a set of operations to mitigate the contamination from the surface of the object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.