Global Template Projection and Matching Method for Training-Free Analysis of Delayered IC Images

Pattern recognition algorithms have recently been pursued for automatic analysis of delayered IC images, i.e. the detection of circuit components. Wide experimentation on the existing training-based approaches are hampered by heavy data labeling, expensive model training, or long processing time. In this paper, we propose a global template projection and matching (GTPM) method that requires no training and a minimal amount of data labeling for circuit component detection. Our proposed GTPM method achieves a higher or comparable accuracy as the reported approaches while being more computationally efficient.

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