SEP 5, 2026 · PREPRINT
Spatial Attention Supervision for Defect Localization: Exploiting Ground-Truth Masks as Training Signal in Diffusion-Augmented Defect Detection
arXiv
A single-benchmark computational study on synthetic defect data with modest improvements in a surrogate endpoint (localization), unreviewed preprint without peer-reviewed publication, limited to one industrial dataset and showing architecture-dependent effects.
Reported
Pixel-AUROC improvement (Efficien…+18.0%
p-value (EfficientNetB0)0.005
Cohen's d (EfficientNetB0)2.6