Trained 1CH VAE model from 6/8/24

Code available at https://github.com/sandialabs/pvcracks/

• This VAE model is for the one channel version, it only uses the crack masks of the Electroluminescence images.
• The purpose is to parametrize the crack masks and compress the information into latent vectors.
• Latent space visualization can be used to cluster the images in categories according to severity of damage.
• Visualization can also be used to generate new crack masks within a certain cluster.
• Latent vectors can also be used to correlate to power loss using the additional model in the pvcracks repo.