Project Description 

In industrial manufacturing processes, quality assurance is an important topic. It is one of the top priorities for Industry 4.0 with a good reason. Defect detection improves the quality, efficiency, and saves lots of money. It is about to become more accessible however this problem faces  a number of unique challenges:

1. It is often difficult to obtain a large amount of anomalous data
2. The difference between a normal sample and an anomalous sample can be very small
3. The type of anomalies is not always known beforehand

For this use-case, we want to explore anomaly detection methods which use anomaly-free training data combined with probabilistic AI to detect anomalies. The goal is that all a new client has to do is provide us with a dataset containing non-defective samples and we can build a custom anomaly detection solution for their use case. Recently Intel released the Anomalib library which implements a couple of the current state-of-the-art methods. Some initial exploration of the library has been done by ML6, however there is much more work to be done before we can use it for a client.

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Methodology / Tasks

You can take a headstart when working on this project, as some work has already been done. An actively developed library is available called Anomalib which contains implementations of the current state-of-the-art. However, there is still a gap to be bridged before we can use it in practice. An initial comparison of three algorithms was done however multiple interesting algorithms were excluded. 

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During this internship you will:

• Explore multiple state-of-the-art anomaly detection algorithms
• Deploy the models to a Jetson Xavier and create an initial pipeline
• Create a full anomaly detection setup from start to finish.

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Profile / Required skills

• Strong analytical abilities, knowledge of different statistical methods, not scared by mathematics and a familiarity with research studies.
• Strong interest in Computer Vision [preferred]
• Familiarity with statistical analysis languages and tools like Python.
• Excellent verbal and written communication in English.
• You are currently pursuing a degree in computer science or related field.

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Internship Duration

The duration of the internship can be flexible and depends on the candidate preference and the project requirements. The typical duration is 6 to 8 weeks. The preferred duration for this specific project is 6 weeks.

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