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Structural health monitoring (SHM) tasks like damage detection are crucial for decision-making regarding maintenance and deterioration. For example, crack detection in SHM is crucial for bridge maintenance as crack progression can lead to…

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Studying porous rock materials with X-Ray Computed Tomography (XRCT) has been established as a standard procedure for the non-destructive visualization of flow and transport in opaque porous media. Despite the recent advances in the field…

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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

Aerial robots such as drones have been leveraged to perform bridge inspections. Inspection images with both recognizable structural elements and apparent surface defects can be collected by onboard cameras to provide valuable information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Chenyu Zhang , Muhammad Monjurul Karim , Zhaozheng Yin , Ruwen Qin

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation is increasingly used to support clinical diagnosis and develop new treatment strategies. However, model performance remains limited by the scarcity of high-quality annotated data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Nathan Molinier , Hendrik Möller , Thomas Dagonneau , Anna Curto-Vilalta , Robert Graf , Matan Atad , Daniel Rueckert , Jan S. Kirschke , Julien Cohen-Adad

Automating visual inspection for capturing defects based on civil structures appearance is crucial due to its currently labour-intensive and time-consuming nature. An important aspect of automated inspection is image acquisition, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Zehao Ye , Lucy Lovell , Asaad Faramarzi , Jelena Ninic

Increasing the degree of digitisation and automation in the concrete production process can play a crucial role in reducing the CO$_2$ emissions that are associated with the production of concrete. In this paper, a method is presented that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Max Meyer , Amadeus Langer , Max Mehltretter , Dries Beyer , Max Coenen , Tobias Schack , Michael Haist , Christian Heipke

The identification of structural damages takes a more and more important role within the modern economy, where often the monitoring of an infrastructure is the last approach to keep it under public use. Conventional monitoring methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Frank Wuttke , Hao Lyu , Amir S. Sattari , Zarghaam H. Rizvi

Structures suffer from the emergence of cracks, therefore, crack detection is always an issue with much concern in structural health monitoring. Along with the rapid progress of deep learning technology, image semantic segmentation, an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Fangzheng Lin , Jiesheng Yang , Jiangpeng Shu , Raimar J. Scherer

Concrete workability measure is mostly determined based on subjective assessment of a certified assessor with visual inspections. The potential human error in measuring the workability and the resulting unnecessary adjustments for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Litao Yu , Jian Zhang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Xiaojun Chang , Vute Sirivivatnanon , Ali Nezhad

In medical image segmentation tasks, the scarcity of labeled training data poses a significant challenge when training deep neural networks. When using U-Net-style architectures, it is common practice to address this problem by pretraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Gábor Hidy , Bence Bakos , András Lukács

Accurate segmentation of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) lesions in longitudinal MRI scans is crucial for monitoring disease progression and treatment efficacy. Although changes across time are taken into account when assessing images in clinical…

Medical Imagings are considered one of the crucial diagnostic tools for different bones-related diseases, especially bones fractures. This paper investigates the robustness of pre-trained deep learning models for classifying bone fractures…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Robby Hoover , Nelly Elsayed , Zag ElSayed , Chengcheng Li

Geohazards such as landslides have caused great losses to the safety of people's lives and property, which is often accompanied with surface cracks. If such surface cracks could be identified in time, it is of great significance for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Yuting Yang , Gang Mei

Data-driven method for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), that mine the hidden structural performance from the correlations among monitored time series data, has received widely concerns recently. However, missing data significantly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Fan Deng , Xiaoming Tao , Pengxiang Wei , Shiyin Wei

With the widespread application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in bridge structural health monitoring, deep learning-based automatic crack detection has become a major research focus. However, practical UAV inspections still face four…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Wei Li , Haisheng Li , Weijie Li , Jiandong Wang , Kaichen Ma , Luming Yang

Visual-Spatial Systems has become increasingly essential in concrete crack inspection. However, existing methods often lacks adaptability to diverse scenarios, exhibits limited robustness in image-based approaches, and struggles with curved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Pengru Deng , Jiapeng Yao , Chun Li , Su Wang , Xinrun Li , Varun Ojha , Xuhui He

This paper presents a few comprehensive experimental studies for automated Structural Damage Detection (SDD) in extreme events using deep learning methods for processing 2D images. In the first study, a 152-layer Residual network (ResNet)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yongsheng Bai , Bing Zha , Halil Sezen , Alper Yilmaz

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

Deep learning methods have surpassed the performance of traditional techniques on a wide range of problems in computer vision, but nearly all of this work has studied consumer photos, where precisely correct output is often not critical. It…

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