• DocumentCode
    285214
  • Title

    A fractal dimension feature extraction technique for detecting flaws in silicon wafers

  • Author

    Stubbendieck, Gregg T. ; Oldham, William J B

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas Tech. Univ., Lubbock, TX, USA
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    1992
  • fDate
    7-11 Jun 1992
  • Firstpage
    717
  • Abstract
    The authors present a feature extraction method for detecting flaws in silicon wafers based on the idea of fractal dimension. They begin by discussing why fractal dimension is a good way to model wafer surface images. They then describe how to calculate the fractal dimension of a computer image of a wafer and how the results of such a calculation can be used for fault detection and image segmentation. The results of the application of this process to some wafer images are included
  • Keywords
    automatic optical inspection; feature extraction; flaw detection; fractals; image segmentation; integrated circuit testing; quality control; semiconductor technology; computer image; fault detection; feature extraction; fractal dimension; image segmentation; silicon wafers; wafer surface images; Data mining; Feature extraction; Fractals; Humans; Image segmentation; Inspection; Neural networks; Pattern recognition; Quality control; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Neural Networks, 1992. IJCNN., International Joint Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-0559-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IJCNN.1992.227067
  • Filename
    227067