Crack detection of UAV concrete surface images

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
DongYeob Han
Keyword(s):  
Crack Detection ◽  
Concrete Surface ◽  
Surface Images

scholarly journals A Hybrid Image Enhancement Algorithm for Effective Concrete Surface Crack Classification

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (09) ◽  
pp. 1283-1297
Author(s):  
Sheerin Sitara Noor Mohamed ◽  
◽  
Kavitha Srinivasan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Image Enhancement ◽  
Surface Crack ◽  
Crack Detection ◽  
Wiener Filter ◽  
Concrete Surface ◽  
Morphological Operations ◽  
Low Contrast ◽  
Crack Classification ◽  
Value Decomposition ◽  
Surface Images

Huge number of images are acquired and analysed every day for a range of applications in civil infrastructure. One such application is the identification of cracks in concrete surface images, which is a challenge owing to their low contrast and resolution, blurriness, noise and information loss. Existing image enhancement algorithms improve either contrast or resolution to a rather limited extent. This paper proposes a Hybrid Image Enhancement (HIE) algorithm to improve both the contrast and resolution of concrete surface images using the Wavelet transform and Singular Value Decomposition (SVM). The enhanced concrete surface crack images are classified into specific crack types. The classification comprises preprocessing, crack detection, feature extraction and crack classification. The images are initially preprocessed using the Wiener filter to remove blurriness, following which cracks are detected using morphological operations and discontinuities in the segmented crack regions eliminated using the K-Dimensional Tree algorithm. Features are extracted from the segmented regions using statistical and geometric features. The image is classified thereafter into specific crack types using algorithms from three different neural network, kernel and tree based categories. The proposed HIE algorithm is validated using quantitative metrics and the results obtained are compared with those from State-of-the-Art methods and datasets. The results have shown that the HIE algorithm offers significantly improved accuracy of between 6% and 10% in the classification of concrete surface images.

scholarly journals DEEP LEARNING AND RANDOM FOREST BASED CRACK DETECTION FROM AN IMAGE OF CONCRETE SURFACE

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (2) ◽  
pp. I_297-I_307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pang-jo CHUN ◽  
Yuri SHIMAMOTO ◽  
Kazuaki OKUBO ◽  
Chihiro MIWA ◽  
Mitao OHGA
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Random Forest ◽  
Crack Detection ◽  
Concrete Surface

scholarly journals Concrete Cracks Detection Based on FCN with Dilated Convolution

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (13) ◽  
pp. 2686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianming Zhang ◽  
Chaoquan Lu ◽  
Jin Wang ◽  
Lei Wang ◽  
Xiao-Guang Yue
Keyword(s):  
Crack Detection ◽  
Receptive Fields ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Concrete Surface ◽  
Input Image ◽  
Feature Maps ◽  
Test Set ◽  
Dilated Convolution ◽  
Fully Convolutional Networks ◽  
Segmentation Task

In civil engineering, the stability of concrete is of great significance to safety of people’s life and property, so it is necessary to detect concrete damage effectively. In this paper, we treat crack detection on concrete surface as a semantic segmentation task that distinguishes background from crack at the pixel level. Inspired by Fully Convolutional Networks (FCN), we propose a full convolution network based on dilated convolution for concrete crack detection, which consists of an encoder and a decoder. Specifically, we first used the residual network to extract the feature maps of the input image, designed the dilated convolutions with different dilation rates to extract the feature maps of different receptive fields, and fused the extracted features from multiple branches. Then, we exploited the stacked deconvolution to do up-sampling operator in the fused feature maps. Finally, we used the SoftMax function to classify the feature maps at the pixel level. In order to verify the validity of the model, we introduced the commonly used evaluation indicators of semantic segmentation: Pixel Accuracy (PA), Mean Pixel Accuracy (MPA), Mean Intersection over Union (MIoU), and Frequency Weighted Intersection over Union (FWIoU). The experimental results show that the proposed model converges faster and has better generalization performance on the test set by introducing dilated convolutions with different dilation rates and a multi-branch fusion strategy. Our model has a PA of 96.84%, MPA of 92.55%, MIoU of 86.05% and FWIoU of 94.22% on the test set, which is superior to other models.

A vision-based active learning convolutional neural network model for concrete surface crack detection

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (13) ◽  
pp. 2952-2964
Author(s):  
Zhen Wang ◽  
Guoshan Xu ◽  
Yong Ding ◽  
Bin Wu ◽  
Guoyu Lu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Surface Crack ◽  
Crack Detection ◽  
Concrete Surface ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Training Method ◽  
And Training ◽  
New Framework

Concrete surface crack detection based on computer vision, specifically via a convolutional neural network, has drawn increasing attention for replacing manual visual inspection of bridges and buildings. This article proposes a new framework for this task and a sampling and training method based on active learning to treat class imbalances. In particular, the new framework includes a clear definition of two categories of samples, a relevant sliding window technique, data augmentation and annotation methods. The advantages of this framework are that data integrity can be ensured and a very large amount of annotation work can be saved. Training datasets generated with the proposed sampling and training method not only are representative of the original dataset but also highlight samples that are highly complex, yet informative. Based on the proposed framework and sampling and training strategy, AlexNet is re-tuned, validated, tested and compared with an existing network. The investigation revealed outstanding performances of the proposed framework in terms of the detection accuracy, precision and F1 measure due to its nonlinear learning ability, training dataset integrity and active learning strategy.

scholarly journals Concrete Cracks Detection Using Convolutional NeuralNetwork Based on Transfer Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Chao Su ◽  
Wenjun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Transfer Learning ◽  
Crack Detection ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Concrete Surface ◽  
Surface Cracks ◽  
Generalization Capability ◽  
Detection Model ◽  
Neural Architecture ◽  
Efficient Detection

Crack plays a critical role in the field of evaluating the quality of concrete structures, which affects the safety, applicability, and durability of the structure. Due to its excellent performance in image processing, the convolutional neural network is becoming the mainstream choice to replace manual crack detection. In this paper, we improve the EfficientNetB0 to realize the detection of concrete surface cracks using the transfer learning method. The model is designed by neural architecture search technology. The weights are pretrained on the ImageNet. Supervised learning uses Adam optimizer to update network parameters. In the testing process, crack images from different locations were used to further test the generalization capability of the model. By comparing the detection results with the MobileNetV2, DenseNet201, and InceptionV3 models, the results show that our model greatly reduces the number of parameters while achieving high accuracy (0.9911) and has good generalization capability. Our model is an efficient detection model, which provides a new option for crack detection in areas with limited computing resources.

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