Benchmarking Feature Extractors for Reinforcement Learning-Based Semiconductor Defect Localization
Year: 2023
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: As semiconductor patterning dimensions shrink, more advanced Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) image-based defect inspection techniques are needed. Recently, many Machine Learning (ML)-based approaches have been proposed for defect localization and have shown impressive results. These methods often rely on feature extraction from a full SEM image and possibly a number of regions of interest. In this study, we propose a deep Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based approach to defect localization which iteratively extracts features from increasingly smaller regions of the input image. We compare the results of 18 agents trained with different feature extractors. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of different feature extractors as well as the RL-based framework in general for semiconductor defect localization.
Source: International Symposium ELMAR
Language: English
Subfield: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4386919869