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<bold>Intelligent Defect Detection of Design Materials Based on Edge AI </bold>

Jiayu

16607443387@163.com

Liu

Mengyu

daimou971231@naver.com

Department of Art and Design, Beijing City University, Shunyi District, Beijing, China

22 09 2026

27 57

Received: 1672026

2026

Jiayu Du, Mengyu Liu (Author)

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Edge AI; Defect detection; Lightweight network; Multi-scale attention fusion; Adaptive inference

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