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Automated structural health monitoring is essential to prevent catastrophic infrastructure failures. Precise, pixel-level defect segmentation is needed to accurately assess structural integrity, but progress in defect segmentation for civil…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Nicola Farronato , Niccolo Avogaro , Thomas Frick , Mattia Rigotti , Rizwan Ullah Khan , Michele Magno , Konrad Schindler , Cristiano Malossi , Florian Scheidegger

This research assesses the performance of two deep learning models, SAM and U-Net, for detecting cracks in concrete structures. The results indicate that each model has its own strengths and limitations for detecting different types of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Mohsen Ahmadi , Ahmad Gholizadeh Lonbar , Hajar Kazemi Naeini , Ali Tarlani Beris , Mohammadsadegh Nouri , Amir Sharifzadeh Javidi , Abbas Sharifi

Automated pavement crack detection is a challenging task that has been researched for decades due to the complicated pavement conditions in real world. In this paper, a supervised method based on deep learning is proposed, which has the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Zhun Fan , Yuming Wu , Jiewei Lu , Wenji Li

This paper addresses the critical need for automated crack detection in the preservation of cultural heritage through semantic segmentation. We present a comparative study of U-Net architectures, using various convolutional neural network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Andrea Ranieri , Giorgio Palmieri , Silvia Biasotti

Flexible road pavements deteriorate primarily due to traffic and adverse environmental conditions. Cracking is the most common deterioration mechanism; the surveying thereof is typically conducted manually using internationally defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Hermann Tapamo , Anna Bosman , James Maina , Emile Horak

Crack segmentation is crucial in civil engineering, particularly for assessing pavement integrity and ensuring the durability of infrastructure. While deep learning has advanced RGB-based segmentation, performance degrades under adverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Ruiqiang Xiao , Xiaohu Chen

Large-scale foundation models have become the mainstream deep learning method, while in civil engineering, the scale of AI models is strictly limited. In this work, a vision foundation model is introduced for crack segmentation. Two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Kang Ge , Chen Wang , Yutao Guo , Yansong Tang , Zhenzhong Hu , Hongbing Chen

Monitoring surface cracks in infrastructure is crucial for structural health monitoring. Automatic visual inspection offers an effective solution, especially in hard-to-reach areas. Machine learning approaches have proven their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Florent Forest , Hugo Porta , Devis Tuia , Olga Fink

Crack detection has become an indispensable, interesting yet challenging task in the computer vision community. Specially, pavement cracks have a highly complex spatial structure, a low contrasting background and a weak spatial continuity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Junbiao Pang , Baocheng Xiong , Jiaqi Wu

Supervised and semi-supervised semantic segmentation algorithms require significant amount of annotated data to achieve a good performance. In many situations, the data is either not available or the annotation is expensive. The objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Ram Krishna Pandey , Akshit Achara

Crack detection, particularly from pavement images, presents a formidable challenge in the domain of computer vision due to several inherent complexities such as intensity inhomogeneity, intricate topologies, low contrast, and noisy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Abid Hasan Zim , Aquib Iqbal , Zaid Al-Huda , Asad Malik , Minoru Kuribayash

Crowdsourcing annotations has created a paradigm shift in the availability of labeled data for machine learning. Availability of large datasets has accelerated progress in common knowledge applications involving visual and language data.…

Computational solid mechanics has become an indispensable approach in engineering, and numerical investigation of fracture in composites is essential as composites are widely used in structural applications. Crack evolution in composites is…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-09-26 Hao Xu , Wei Fan , Ambrose C. Taylor , Dongxiao Zhang , Lecheng Ruan , Rundong Shi

Tunnels are essential elements of transportation infrastructure, but are increasingly affected by ageing and deterioration mechanisms such as cracking. Regular inspections are required to ensure their safety, yet traditional manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Andreas Sjölander , Valeria Belloni , Robel Fekadu , Andrea Nascetti

Pixel-level road crack detection has always been a challenging task in intelligent transportation systems. Due to the external environments, such as weather, light, and other factors, pavement cracks often present low contrast, poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Kai Li , Jie Yang , Siwei Ma , Bo Wang , Shanshe Wang , Yingjie Tian , Zhiquan Qi

Automated crack inspection is increasingly recognized as a critical component of infrastructure monitoring; however, cracks continue to be reported primarily as binary segmentation masks by many current vision-based systems. While…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Sri Surya Pravallika Ajjarapu , S. M. Mallikarjunaiah

The existence of cracks and other damages pose a significant threat to the safe operation of transportation infrastructure. Traditional manual detection and ultrasound equipment testing consume a lot of time and resources. With the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yuwei Duan

In this study, we consider the problem of detecting cracks from the image of a concrete surface for automated inspection of infrastructure, such as bridges. Its overall accuracy is determined by how accurately thin cracks with sub-pixel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Liang Xu , Taro Hatsutani , Xing Liu , Engkarat Techapanurak , Han Zou , Takayuki Okatani

Crack segmentation on edge devices can support continuous infrastructure monitoring and maintenance and thereby help to preserve public safety. Furthermore, autonomous infrastructure monitoring by using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Matthias Tschope , Mohamed Moursi , Vladimir Rybalkin , Bo Zhou , Norbert Wehn , Paul Lukowicz

Conveyor belts are important equipment in modern industry, widely applied in production and manufacturing. Their health is much critical to operational efficiency and safety. Cracks are a major threat to belt health. Currently, considering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jianghong Huang , Luping Ji , Xin Ma , Mao Ye