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New AI framework enhances aero-engine blade defect detection

Researchers have developed a new framework called the Aero-engine Blade Defect Detector (ABDD) to improve the accuracy of visual inspections in aero-engine blade manufacturing. This system uses a Dual-Alignment Strategy to adapt to variations in production lines and imaging conditions, addressing challenges posed by domain shifts. ABDD incorporates an Uncertainty-aware Box Filtering mechanism to mitigate errors from unreliable predictions and a Sparse Dilated Mona module for efficient parameter tuning. Experimental results on benchmark datasets and an industrial platform demonstrate ABDD's enhanced robustness under domain shifts. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Zhaoyang Wang, Haiyong Chen, Dongying Li, Yining Wang, Huapeng Wu, Xinwei Lv, Atik Shahariar ·

    Robust Online Aero-Engine Blade Defect Detection via Dual-Alignment Test-Time Adaptation

    arXiv:2610.00067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable visual inspection is essential for quality assurance in aero-engine blade manufacturing, where defect appearance may vary across production lines, imaging conditions, blade poses, and surface backgrounds. Such domain shifts…