Synthetic data for damage assessment in aircraft turbines

This paper discusses possible ways to generate synthetic data and its use cases for damage assessment in aircraft turbines. Synthetic data has many advantages such as exact ground truth and scalable data sets. Using SLAM and SfM, which are 3D construction tools, 3D models can be constructed from 2D monocular borescope videos. A 3D reconstruction of parts of the engine allows us to measure the damage if it exists. But when is the synthetic data "good"? Using the methods SLAM and SfM synthetic data could possibly be evaluated by comparing it to real data. Using Blender, synthetic borescope videos are generated and the performance of SLAM and SfM on these videos is compared to the real videos. In general, there are many different use cases for synthetic data in damage assessment and there are multiple ways to generate the right data set. Evaluating synthetic data shows that synthetic data that qualitatively looks closer to real data does not perform closer when running SfM or SLAM on it.CSE3000 Research ProjectComputer Science and Engineerin