AI-BASED DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION OF PROTECTIVE COATING DEFECTS IN DEFENCE PLATFORMS : A Standards-Aligned Survey and Proposed Framework
Protective coatings are the first line of defence against corrosion on naval, aerospace and land defence platforms, yet their condition is still judged largely by human visual inspection, which is subjective, difficult to audit and hard to scale across a fleet. Recent deep-learning studies automate corrosion and coatin...