Automated Underwater Pipeline Damage Detection using Neural Nets

Pipeline inspection is a very human intensive taskand automation could improve efficiencies significantly. We propose a system that could allow an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV), to detect pipeline damage in a stream of images.Our classifiers were based on transfer learning from pre-trained convolutional neural networks (CNN). This allows us to achieve good results despite relatively few training examples of damage. We test the approach using data from an actual pipeline inspection.QC 20190827