We present recent results on the inspection of a first diffraction-limited hard X-ray Kirkpatrick-Baez (KB) mirror pair for the Coherent X-ray Imaging (CXI) instrument at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). The full KB system - mirrors and holders - was under inspection by use of high resolution slope measuring deflectometry. The tests confirmed that KB mirrors of 350mm aperture length char...

Automatic verbatim coding technology is essential in many contexts in which, either because of the sheer size of the dataset we need to code, or because of demanding time constraints, or because of cost-effectiveness issues, manual coding is not a viable option. However, in some of these contexts the accuracy standards imposed by the customer may be too high for today’s automated verbatim codin...

In this study we investigate the idea to automatically evaluate newly created pronunciation encodings for being correct or containing a potential error. Using a cascaded triphone detector and phonotactical n-gram modeling with an optimal Bayesian threshold we classify unknown pronunciation transcripts into the classes ’probably faulty’ or ’probably correct’. Transcripts tagged ’probably faulty’...

Expert inspection methods provide a means of evaluating interactive systems for error throughout the design lifecycle. Experts have a wide variety of methods available to them for detecting either potential user errors or usability problems that will provoke error; however, the data on what types of errors are detected by each method is very thin. This paper, presents the results of a study int...

This paper presents an effective and general purpose search algorithm for alignment, and we applied it to IC printed mark quality inspection. The search procedure is based on normalized cross correlation, and we improve the method with hierarchical resolution pyramid, dynamic programming, subpixel accuracy, multiple target search, and automatic model selection. The proposed search method can be...

Model complexity in neural-network learning is investigated using tools from nonlinear approximation and integration theory. Estimates of network complexity are obtained from inspection of upper bounds on convergence of minima of error functionals over networks with an increasing number of units to their global minima. The estimates are derived using integral transforms induced by computational...

Defect inspection is an important issue in the field of industrial automation. In general, defect-inspection methods can be categorized into supervised and unsupervised methods. When learning applied to defect inspection, large variation patterns make data coverage incomplete for model training, which introduce problem low detection accuracy. Therefore, this paper focuses on construction a syst...

This paper explores the problem of identifying sentence boundaries in the transcriptions produced by automatic speech recognition systems. An experiment which determines the level of human performance for this task is described as well as a memorybased computational approach to the problem. 1 T h e P r o b l e m This paper addresses the problem of identifying sentence boundaries in the transcri...

Machine vision technology improves productivity and quality management and provides a competitive advantage to industries that employ this technology. In this article, visual inspection and quality control theory are combined to develop a robust inspection system with manufacturing applications. The inspection process might be defined as the one used to determine if a given product fulfills a p...

A thorough requirements analysis is indispensable for developing and implementing safety-critical software systems such as nuclear power plant (NPP) software systems because a single error in the requirements can generate serious software faults. However, it is very difficult to completely analyze system requirements. In this paper, an effective technique for the software requirements analysis ...