semantic_scholare-Journal of Nondestructive Testing2026-08-01
Traversing blades and where to find them in visual-language latent landscapes: Exploring contextual computer-vision domains and model compression for tower-radar rotor monitoring
Christian Kexel, Sercan Alipek, Jochen Moll
TL;DR: This article focuses on the radar-only computer-vision task of classifying rotors without complementary costly instrumentation, and measured radargrams from field experiments are complemented with the novel synthetic dataset SiWiRoRa as well as further open imagery.
Tower-radar computer vision (TRCV) represents an emerging application-oriented field of study. Here, image-type measurements are acquired from radar transceivers bound to the mast of wind power turbines and these radargrams subsequently get analyzed using data-driven algorithms.…