Spatial Attention Supervision for Defect Localization: Exploiting Ground-Truth Masks as Training Signal in Diffusion-Augmented Defect Detection

Sajjad Rezvani Boroujeni, Muskan Saraf, Gnana Tulasi Makineni +2

Ground-truth defect masks in industrial inspection datasets are typically reserved for evaluation. This paper repurposes them as spatial supervision signals during training of clas…