drone-defect-detection

This repo has code related to the drone-defect-detection Project repository. It is an embedded video frame-classification model that can accurately classify surface defects. The model is lightweight and capable of running on edge devices on-device. To overcome the challenge of limited real-world data, a photo-realistic simulation using Unreal Engine and harnessed OpenCV for synthetic data generation.

Model detects surface defects with accuracy of 96%, well balanced for sensitivity / precision. Its architecture is now expanded to include a convolutional-RNN to capture temporal information between video frames. It features YOLO object detection, LSTM, automated hyperparameter tuning, and GPU optimization.

Project Setup

To get started with this project, you will need the following:

Python 3.7 or higher
TensorFlow 2.x
OpenCV Library
Unreal Engine (for simulation)
Access to high-performance computing resources for training (preferably with a CUDA-compatible GPU)

Clone the repository using:

git clone https://github.com/HoomanRamezani/drone-defect-detection
cd drone-defect-detection
drone-defect-detection

Install the required Python dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Model Training

To train the model:

Set up your dataset by following the instructions in dataset_setup.md. Configure your training parameters in config.json.

Start the training process using:

python main.py --dataset_dir ./data --epochs 50 --batch_size 32 --learning_rate 0.001

You can monitor the training progress via TensorBoard:

tensorboard --logdir=path/to/log-files

Evaluation

After training, evaluate your model's performance using the evaluate.py script, ensuring that it meets our target accuracy of 96% for image classification and object detection tasks.

python evaluate.py --model_dir path/to/saved_model --data_dir path/to/evaluation_data --batch_size 32