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Road Crack Detection Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network and Adaptive Thresholding
Crack is one of the most common road distresses which may pose road safety
hazards. Generally, crack detection is performed by either certified inspectors
or structural engineers. This task is, however, time-consuming, subjective and
labor-intensive. In this paper, we propose a novel road crack detection
algorithm based on deep learning and adaptive image segmentation. Firstly, a
deep convolutional neural network is trained to determine whether an image
contains cracks or not. The images containing cracks are then smoothed using
bilateral filtering, which greatly minimizes the number of noisy pixels.
Finally, we utilize an adaptive thresholding method to extract the cracks from
road surface. The experimental results illustrate that our network can classify
images with an accuracy of 99.92%, and the cracks can be successfully extracted
from the images using our proposed thresholding algorithm.Comment: 6 pages, 8 figures, 2019 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposiu
Iteratively Optimized Patch Label Inference Network for Automatic Pavement Disease Detection
We present a novel deep learning framework named the Iteratively Optimized
Patch Label Inference Network (IOPLIN) for automatically detecting various
pavement diseases that are not solely limited to specific ones, such as cracks
and potholes. IOPLIN can be iteratively trained with only the image label via
the Expectation-Maximization Inspired Patch Label Distillation (EMIPLD)
strategy, and accomplish this task well by inferring the labels of patches from
the pavement images. IOPLIN enjoys many desirable properties over the
state-of-the-art single branch CNN models such as GoogLeNet and EfficientNet.
It is able to handle images in different resolutions, and sufficiently utilize
image information particularly for the high-resolution ones, since IOPLIN
extracts the visual features from unrevised image patches instead of the
resized entire image. Moreover, it can roughly localize the pavement distress
without using any prior localization information in the training phase. In
order to better evaluate the effectiveness of our method in practice, we
construct a large-scale Bituminous Pavement Disease Detection dataset named
CQU-BPDD consisting of 60,059 high-resolution pavement images, which are
acquired from different areas at different times. Extensive results on this
dataset demonstrate the superiority of IOPLIN over the state-of-the-art image
classification approaches in automatic pavement disease detection. The source
codes of IOPLIN are released on \url{https://github.com/DearCaat/ioplin}.Comment: Revision on IEEE Trans on IT
Analytical study of computer vision-based pavement crack quantification using machine learning techniques
Image-based techniques are a promising non-destructive approach for road pavement condition evaluation. The main objective of this study is to extract, quantify and evaluate important surface defects, such as cracks, using an automated computer vision-based system to provide a better understanding of the pavement deterioration process. To achieve this objective, an automated crack-recognition software was developed, employing a series of image processing algorithms of crack extraction, crack grouping, and crack detection. Bottom-hat morphological technique was used to remove the random background of pavement images and extract cracks, selectively based on their shapes, sizes, and intensities using a relatively small number of user-defined parameters. A technical challenge with crack extraction algorithms, including the Bottom-hat transform, is that extracted crack pixels are usually fragmented along crack paths. For de-fragmenting those crack pixels, a novel crack-grouping algorithm is proposed as an image segmentation method, so called MorphLink-C. Statistical validation of this method using flexible pavement images indicated that MorphLink-C not only improves crack-detection accuracy but also reduces crack detection time. Crack characterization was performed by analysing imagerial features of the extracted crack image components. A comprehensive statistical analysis was conducted using filter feature subset selection (FSS) methods, including Fischer score, Gini index, information gain, ReliefF, mRmR, and FCBF to understand the statistical characteristics of cracks in different deterioration stages. Statistical significance of crack features was ranked based on their relevancy and redundancy. The statistical method used in this study can be employed to avoid subjective crack rating based on human visual inspection. Moreover, the statistical information can be used as fundamental data to justify rehabilitation policies in pavement maintenance. Finally, the application of four classification algorithms, including Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Decision Tree (DT), k-Nearest Neighbours (kNN) and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) is investigated for the crack detection framework. The classifiers were evaluated in the following five criteria: 1) prediction performance, 2) computation time, 3) stability of results for highly imbalanced datasets in which, the number of crack objects are significantly smaller than the number of non-crack objects, 4) stability of the classifiers performance for pavements in different deterioration stages, and 5) interpretability of results and clarity of the procedure. Comparison results indicate the advantages of white-box classification methods for computer vision based pavement evaluation. Although black-box methods, such as ANN provide superior classification performance, white-box methods, such as ANFIS, provide useful information about the logic of classification and the effect of feature values on detection results. Such information can provide further insight for the image-based pavement crack detection application
Segmentation of surface cracks based on a fully convolutional neural network and gated scale pooling
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