Machine Learning based scratches on printed paper detection, in high-speed printing systems [Dataset]

Printing industry rapidly is adopting digital technologies and the requirements in terms of speed and print quality are also becoming more demanding. The is a wide range of possible quality defects in printed paper. This makes it impossible to have humans inspect the printed paper for such a big amount of possible quality defects at the high-speeds the printouts are produced.

Printing industry is not taking advantage of the Artificial Intelligence to detect defects in printed paper at speed without human intervention. It is possible to generate millions of images (captures) with printed content from a printing system every day. Most of these images will not have any defect but some other will and can be used to generate a data set to be used in a machine learning system.

The intention of this research work is to find ways artificial intelligence can help on automatically detecting defects on printed paper in a printing system and classifying them, without human intervention. Focusing on scratches, I’ve explored what are the actual proposals and solutions, and how machine learning can help improving them by using datasets with different techniques, implementing possible solutions and comparing the obtained results.