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Pavement cracks is one of the most important reasons that affects the road capacity. Nowadays, China has the longest highway mileage in the world, thus using traditional manual methods to detect pavement cracks is both time and labor…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-07 Meng Wang

Surface cracks are a common sight on public infrastructure nowadays. Recent work has been addressing this problem by supporting structural maintenance measures using machine learning methods. Those methods are used to segment surface cracks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Jacob König , Mark Jenkins , Mike Mannion , Peter Barrie , Gordon Morison

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

Lane detection in driving scenes is an important module for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver assistance systems. In recent years, many sophisticated lane detection methods have been proposed. However, most methods focus on detecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Qin Zou , Hanwen Jiang , Qiyu Dai , Yuanhao Yue , Long Chen , Qian Wang

Models based on deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) have significantly improved the performance of semantic segmentation. However, learning these models requires a large amount of training images with pixel-level labels, which are very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Linwei Ye , Zhi Liu , Yang Wang

During the last half decade, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have triumphed over semantic segmentation, which is one of the core tasks in many applications such as autonomous driving and augmented reality. However, to train CNNs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Yang Zhang , Philip David , Hassan Foroosh , Boqing Gong

Compared to NDT and health monitoring method for cracks in engineering structures, surface crack detection or identification based on visible light images is non-contact, with the advantages of fast speed, low cost and high precision.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Kailiang Lu

Various contextual information has been employed by many approaches for visual detection tasks. However, most of the existing approaches only focus on specific context for specific tasks. In this paper, GMC, a general framework is proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xuan Wang , Hao Tang , Zhigang Zhu

Regular pavement inspection plays a significant role in road maintenance for safety assurance. Existing methods mainly address the tasks of crack detection and segmentation that are only tailored for long-thin crack disease. However, there…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Yujia Zhang , Qianzhong Li , Xiaoguang Zhao , Min Tan

Mid-level visual element discovery aims to find clusters of image patches that are both representative and discriminative. In this work, we study this problem from the prospective of pattern mining while relying on the recently popularized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Yao Li , Lingqiao Liu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Cracks provide an essential indicator of infrastructure performance degradation, and achieving high-precision pixel-level crack segmentation is an issue of concern. Unlike the common research paradigms that adopt novel artificial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zhili He , Wang Chen , Jian Zhang , Yu-Hsing Wang

While deep neural networks have led to human-level performance on computer vision tasks, they have yet to demonstrate similar gains for holistic scene understanding. In particular, 3D context has been shown to be an extremely important cue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Yinda Zhang , Mingru Bai , Pushmeet Kohli , Shahram Izadi , Jianxiong Xiao

Context modeling is crucial for visual recognition, enabling highly discriminative image representations by integrating both intrinsic and extrinsic relationships between objects and labels in images. A limitation in current approaches is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Mingyuan Jiu , Hailong Zhu , Wenchuan Wei , Hichem Sahbi , Rongrong Ji , Mingliang Xu

In this paper, we propose a novel deep neural network framework embedded with low-level features (LCNN) for salient object detection in complex images. We utilise the advantage of convolutional neural networks to automatically learn the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-18 Hongyang Li , Huchuan Lu , Zhe Lin , Xiaohui Shen , Brian Price

Tunnel lining crack is a crucial indicator of tunnels' safety status. Aiming to classify and segment tunnel cracks with enhanced accuracy and efficiency, this study proposes a two-step deep learning-based method. An automatic tunnel image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yong Feng , Xiaolei Zhang , Shijin Feng , Yong Zhao , Yihan Chen

Due to the varying intensity of pavement cracks, the complexity of topological structure, and the noise of texture background, image classification for asphalt pavement cracking has proven to be a challenging problem. Fatigue cracking, also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Zhen Wang , Dylan G. Ildefonzo , Linbing Wang

Salient object detection is a fundamental problem and has been received a great deal of attentions in computer vision. Recently deep learning model became a powerful tool for image feature extraction. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Fen Xiao , Wenzheng Deng , Liangchan Peng , Chunhong Cao , Kai Hu , Xieping Gao

Varying density of point clouds increases the difficulty of 3D detection. In this paper, we present a context-aware dynamic network (CADNet) to capture the variance of density by considering both point context and semantic context.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Yonglin Tian , Lichao Huang , Xuesong Li , Kunfeng Wang , Zilei Wang , Fei-Yue Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been used extensively for computer vision tasks and produce rich feature representation for objects or parts of an image. But reasoning about scenes requires integration between the low-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-05 Syed Ashar Javed , Anil Kumar Nelakanti

Semantic segmentation of raw 3D point clouds is an essential component in 3D scene analysis, but it poses several challenges, primarily due to the non-Euclidean nature of 3D point clouds. Although, several deep learning based approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Saqib Ali Khan , Yilei Shi , Muhammad Shahzad , Xiao Xiang Zhu