Vehicular Mini-LED backlight display inspection based on residual global context mechanism

Abstract

Mini-LED backlight has emerged as a promising technology for high performance LCDs, yet the massive detection of dead pixels and precise LEDs placement are constrained by the miniature scale of the Mini-LEDs. The high-resolution network (Hrnet) with mixed dilated convolution and dense upsampling convolution (MDC-DUC) module and a residual global context attention (RGCA) module has been proposed to detect the quality of vehicular Mini-LED backlights. The proposed model outperforms the baseline networks of Unet, Pspnet, Deeplabv3+, and Hrnet, with a mean intersection over union (Miou) of 86.91%. Furthermore, compared to the four baseline detection networks, our proposed model has a lower root-mean-square error (RMSE) when analyzing the position and defective count of Mini-LEDs in the prediction map by canny algorithm. This work incorporates deep learning to support production lines improve quality of Mini-LED backlights.Graphical abstract