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Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
12-2021
Abstract
Foreign Object Debris (FOD) detection has attracted increased attention in the area of machine learning and computer vision. However, a robust and publicly available image dataset for FOD has not been initialized. To this end, this paper introduces an image dataset of FOD, named FOD in Airports (FOD-A). FOD-A object categories have been selected based on guidance from prior documentation and related research by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). In addition to the primary annotations of bounding boxes for object detection, FOD-A provides labeled environmental conditions. As such, each annotation instance is further categorized into three light level categories (bright, dim, and dark) and two weather categories (dry and wet). Currently, FOD-A has released 31 object categories and over 30,000 annotation instances. This paper presents the creation methodology, discusses the publicly available dataset extension process, and demonstrates the practicality of FOD-A with widely used machine learning models for object detection.
Recommended Citation
Munyer, Travis; Huang, Pei-Chi; Huang, Chenyu; and Zhong, Xin, "FOD-A: A Dataset for Foreign Object Debris in Airports" (2021). Aviation Institute Faculty Proceedings & Presentations. 5.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/aviationfacproc/5
Comments
This is the accepted manuscript of a paper accepted for publication by 20th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications. The copyright is with the IEEE (2021).
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2110.03072