Optical microscopy images of cast iron alloys defects

The dataset comprises two subdatasets, featuring images of carbon defects based on cast iron samples adhering to European standards. The images are in .png format and are divided into training and test sets, with an additional split into 5 folds for reproducibility.The first sub-dataset contains images with only one type of defect per image. The second sub-dataset combines defects from consecutive categories to more closely represent real-world scenarios. Additionally, the second sub-dataset includes the corresponding semantic segmentation masks (MASK) as well as pre-trained models (.h5) for classification purposes.