AI for Bridge Inspection with IBM Inspecto

Abstract

We present our research innovation in enterprise visual inspection for civil infrastructures. We train and adapt AI foundation models to work on high resolution images collected by drones for detecting and segmenting very small defects in wide areas and with high precision. Further, we provide support to reliability engineers by measuring defects with computer vision and by providing additional information that is required to assess damage severity and plan maintenance interventions. Throughout the talk we present a live DEMO of IBM One Click Learning (OCL). IBM OCL is a research-industry platform developed by IBM Research that leverages deep learning and advanced computer vision methods to fully digitalize the visual inspection process, accelerating and improving accuracy in critical inspection tasks. In the demo we present visual inspection results on the Storebælt bridge in collaboration with Sund and Bælt, as well as on other applications.