Vision-based defect detection method for fine-pitch surface-mounted devices

Arthur J. Na; Dongming Zhao; Malayappan Shridhar

doi:10.1117/12.205496

27 March 1995 Vision-based defect detection method for fine-pitch surface-mounted devices

Arthur J. Na, Dongming Zhao, Malayappan Shridhar

Proceedings Volume 2423, Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection III; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.205496
Event: IS&T/SPIE's Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, 1995, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The inspection of fine pitch surface-mounted devices by comparison of defect-free and defective packages is a promising area of research. The types of defects considered include missing pins, bent pins, broken pins, and bad solder connections on mounted packages. The detection algorithm includes morphological image processing operations followed by a neural network. The feature extraction steps include morphological filtering for thresholding, skeletonization, and centroid determination. The centroids are used as inputs to a backpropagation neural network for determining the presence of defects. The neural network compares the input data against data representing defect-free packages and produces a measure of how closely the two data sets match. The accuracy of the network in identifying both good and defective packages is discussed with output values interpreted both incorporating and not incorporating rejection on the bases of a minimal threshold for output values and a minimal separation between output values. The algorithm performance is evaluated based on its performance in correctly identifying the presence or absence of a number of frequently found defect types. Evaluation is also based on the neural network performance with different training parameters. The neural network is shown to identify defects over 70% of the time without rejection and often 100% of the time with rejection.

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Arthur J. Na, Dongming Zhao, and Malayappan Shridhar "Vision-based defect detection method for fine-pitch surface-mounted devices", Proc. SPIE 2423, Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection III, (27 March 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.205496

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