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I generated a "stress test" of 200 rare defects from 7 real photos

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Hello HN,I work on vision systems for structural inspection. A common pain point is usually that while we have a lot of "healthy" images, we often lack a reliable "Golden Set" of rare failures (like shattered porcelain) to validate our models before deployment.You can't trust your model's recall if your test set only has 5 examples of the failure mode for example.So to fix this, I built a pipeline to generate datasets. In this example, I took 7 real-world defect samples, extracted their topology/texture, and procedurally generated 200 hard-to-detect variations across different lighting and backgrounds.I’m releasing this batch of broken insulators (CC0) specifically to help teams benchmark their model's recall on rare classes:https://www.silera.ai/blog/free-200-broken-insulators-datase...- Input: 7 real samples.- Output: 200 fully labeled evaluation images (COCO/YOLO).- Use Case: Validation / Test Set (not full training).How do you guys currently validate recall for "1 in 10,000" edge cases?Jérôme

HN · launched Feb 12, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 72%) · 0 views

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Category and tags

  • Manufacturing
  • Content generation
  • B2B
  • AI-native
  • Commercial product

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Could you build this?

Partial Building a script to prompt diffusion models is trivial, but producing photorealistic, physically accurate, domain-specific structural defects for training and validating industrial computer vision systems requires specialized generative CV pipelines and synthetic data control.

What it would actually take: The architecture relies on fine-tuned diffusion models (e.g., Stable Diffusion XL or Flux) using LoRA or ControlNet conditioned on depth maps, edge detection, and material properties. The hard part is generating photorealistic, physically plausible defect textures (fractures, spalling, microcracks) that match the precise optical characteristics of real industrial inspection cameras without domain drift or synthetic artifacts, requiring expertise in CV data synthesis and quality auditing.

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Concerns raised: Requires registration and credit purchase to download free dataset, Data access feels like email trap/spam collection, Broken 'Get Dataset' button after signup page navigation

Feature requests: Direct download link instead of registration requirement, Track downloads via server logs

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