Automated imaging systems, critical in domains like medical imaging, autonomous driving, and security, experience noise from camera sensors and electronic circuits in bad or dark lighting conditions. This impacts downstream tasks, including object detection. However, an analysis of strategies combining denoising and object detection is lacking. This study addresses this gap by analyzing diverse strategies for optimizing both image quality and detection performance. Results reveal that isolating denoiser network optimization and training a detector on its outputs yields the best overall performance. Combining detection and denoising enhances detection outcomes. The results offer valuable insights to make educated decisions on how to combine denoising and detection in modern imaging systems.

3D modeling techniques can be used to automate processes such as damage assessment in aircraft engines. Aircraft engines often have shiny and non-textured surfaces, where these modeling techniques often have poor performance. This paper gives more insight into the performance of interest detection/matching algorithms on shiny and non-textured surfaces as found in aircraft engine borescope inspection videos. These algorithms are often used in 3D modeling techniques. Three interest point detection/matching algorithms are executed on different test videos, and various metrics are calculated for each algorithm. This paper is the first paper that compares both recent and traditional computer vision interest point detection/matching algorithms in these specific settings, and contributes to a better understanding of the usability of feature-based 3D reconstruction techniques. The results show that more recent neural network-based approaches outperform traditional approaches.