Deep Domain Adaptation for Detecting Bomb Craters in Aerial Images
This work addresses the problem of reducing manual analysis costs and time for bomb crater detection, which is crucial for safety and environmental cleanup, but it is incremental as it applies existing domain adaptation methods to a specific domain.
The paper tackles automated bomb crater detection in aerial images to improve unexploded ordnance disposal, using domain adaptation with moon surface images to address limited training data constraints, achieving a solution that demonstrates usability and challenges with synthetic images.
The aftermath of air raids can still be seen for decades after the devastating events. Unexploded ordnance (UXO) is an immense danger to human life and the environment. Through the assessment of wartime images, experts can infer the occurrence of a dud. The current manual analysis process is expensive and time-consuming, thus automated detection of bomb craters by using deep learning is a promising way to improve the UXO disposal process. However, these methods require a large amount of manually labeled training data. This work leverages domain adaptation with moon surface images to address the problem of automated bomb crater detection with deep learning under the constraint of limited training data. This paper contributes to both academia and practice (1) by providing a solution approach for automated bomb crater detection with limited training data and (2) by demonstrating the usability and associated challenges of using synthetic images for domain adaptation.