Initialisation of Autonomous Aircraft Visual Inspection Systems via CNN-Based Camera Pose Estimation

Xueyan Oh,Leonard Loh,Shaohui Foong,Zhong Bao Andy Koh,Kow Leong Ng,Poh Kang Tan,Pei Lin Pearlin Toh,U-Xuan Tan,Xueyan Oh,Leonard Loh,Shaohui Foong,Zhong Bao Andy Koh,Kow Leong Ng,Poh Kang Tan,Pei Lin Pearlin Toh,U-Xuan Tan

General Visual Inspection is a manual inspection process regularly used to detect and localise obvious damage on the exterior of commercial aircraft. There has been increasing demand to perform this process at the boarding gate to minimize the downtime of the aircraft and automating this process is desired to reduce the reliance on human labour. This automation typically requires the first step of...