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However, existing deep learning-based methods struggle with the extreme variations in defect morphology and scale, while labeled training data remains scarce due to the high cost of expert annotation. To address these challenges, we propose a twofold solution. First, we introduce MSAdaNet, a Multi-Scale Adaptive Defect Detection Network, which integrates three novel modules: a Parallel Multi-Scale Feature Aggregation (PMSFA) backbone, a Focusing Diffusion Pyramid Network (FDPN) neck, and a Scale-Adaptive Shared Detection (SASD) head. Second, to combat data scarcity, we propose a novel data generation pipeline, creating the synthetic Smartphone Camera Bezel Dataset (SCBD) of 4936 images. Extensive experiments on both real-world and synthetic datasets validate our approach. On the challenging public SSGD, MSAdaNet achieves a state-of-the-art mAP@0.5 of 54.8%, outperforming prominent frameworks and improving upon the strong YOLOv11m baseline by +10.6 points in mAP@0.5 and +18.3 points in recall. Furthermore, on our synthetic SCBD, the model achieves an impressive 94.0% mAP@0.5, confirming the quality of our data generation pipeline and the robustness of our architecture across different data distributions. 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