Simon Kiefhaber, Jan-Martin O. Steitz, Julia Grabinski +5cs.CV
Measuring the mass of powder, including falling particles, is a common task in industrial applications. While scales are effective for static measurements, many applications require contactless sensing, where existing solutions are often costly, application-specific, and technically complex. In this work, we investigate computer vision as a practical alternative for contactless mass estimation. As an accessible real-world case study, we focus on coffee grinding and introduce \emph{Doppio}, a novel video dataset capturing videos of falling ground coffee, paired with precise, per-frame ground-truth weight measurements. To demonstrate contactless measuring, we evaluate deep learning-based approaches ranging from purely spatial feed-forward networks to recurrent spatio-temporal models. These models are analyzed with respect to their predictive accuracy and computational trade-offs. We demonstrate that deep learning-based computer vision models accurately estimate the cumulative weight of falling particles, establishing a solid foundation for future vision-based contactless measurement solutions.
Nicolas Valot, Ammar Mechouche, Benjamin Lesage +2cs.LG cs.AI
This paper focuses on the implementation of a novel supervised Machine Learning model for estimating helicopter weight during takeoff, utilizing extensive datasets from Airbus's global in-service fleet. The study details a learning assurance process aligned with the EASA concept paper for machine learning application, and with the on-going Eurocae ED-324. We propose a set of Machine Learning Requirements, a Machine Learning Model Description, and its implementation for a long short-term memory recurrent neural network. Finally, we verify the requirements on the implementation. Demonstrated on legacy avionics computers, the implementation is suitable for the deployment of the developed Machine Learning Model weight estimator on airborne targets for critical functions such as on-board alerting.