Systems and methods for identifying damage and theft in an aircraft cargo bay

A method for monitoring an aircraft cargo bay, comprising:

• receiving, by an aircraft interface device, image data from a camera in a cargo bay of an aircraft;
• detecting, by the aircraft interface device, movement in the cargo bay;
• directing, by the aircraft interface device, the camera to activate, wherein the camera is configured to capture the image data of the cargo bay;
• processing, by the aircraft interface device, the captured image data for event detection and event classification, including:
• performing, by the aircraft interface device, image segmentation and representation;
• performing, by the aircraft interface device, image extraction based on localization and segmentation techniques to generate an extracted image from the captured image data;
• processing, by the aircraft interface device, the extracted image through a trained deep neural network for an object classification;
• evaluating, by the aircraft interface device, a confidence of the object classification;
• and
• receiving, by the aircraft interface device, feedback including additional images, videos, and/or scans in response to the confidence being low;
• generating, by the aircraft interface device, an alarm based on a theft event classification;
• commanding, by the aircraft interface device, the camera to record video based on the theft event classification;
• and
• marking, by the aircraft interface device, the recording as an event in response to determining that a pre-configured time interval has passed since recording began.