A Survey of Defect Detection Applications Based on Generative Adversarial Networks.

With the development of science and technology and the progress of the times, automation and intelligence have been popularized in manufacturing in all walks of life. With the progress of productivity, product defect detection has become an indispensable part. However, in practical scenarios, the application of supervised deep learning algorithms in the field of defect detection is limited due to the difficulty and unpredictability of obtaining defect samples. In recent years, semi-supervised and unsupervised deep learning algorithms have attracted more and more attention in various defect detection tasks. Generative adversarial networks (GAN), as an unsupervised learning algorithm, has been widely used in defect detection tasks in various fields due to its powerful generation ability. In order to provide some inspiration for the researchers who intend to use GAN for defect detection research. In this paper, the theoretical basis, technical development and practical application of GAN based defect detection are reviewed. This paper also discusses the current outstanding problems of GAN and GAN-based defect detection, and makes a detailed prediction and analysis of the possible future research directions. This paper summarizes the relevant literature on the research progress and application status of GAN based defect detection, which provides certain technical information for researchers who are interested in researching GAN and hope to apply it to defect detection tasks.