SMU Assistant Professor of Computer Science Pang Guansong’s latest cutting-edge project, Leveraging Foundation Models for Aircraft Surface Inspection in Open Environments, aims to achieve safer flying at lower maintenance costs. Asst Prof Pang's research proposal noted that the project's “solutions will help… enhance the inspection performance in sophisticated practical application environments”. He highlighted that the project uses knowledge from current large vision-language models (LVLMs) and that the techniques will also be able to adapt to changing conditions. Asst Prof Pang said that the third part of the project aims to utilise in-context images to instantly adapt the models to the ongoing maintenance scenes.
