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Routine visual inspections of concrete structures are imperative for upholding the safety and integrity of critical infrastructure. Such visual inspections sometimes happen under low-light conditions, e.g., checking for bridge health. Crack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Zhen Yao , Jiawei Xu , Shuhang Hou , Mooi Choo Chuah

Segmentation of 3D micro-Computed Tomographic uCT) images of rock samples is essential for further Digital Rock Physics (DRP) analysis, however, conventional methods such as thresholding, watershed segmentation, and converging active…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-18 Ying Da Wang , Mehdi Shabaninejad , Ryan T. Armstrong , Peyman Mostaghimi

Over the past decade, automated methods have been developed to detect cracks more efficiently, accurately, and objectively, with the ultimate goal of replacing conventional manual visual inspection techniques. Among these methods, semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Nachuan Ma , Rui Fan , Lihua Xie

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

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformers have shown advanced accuracy in crack detection under certain conditions. Yet, the fixed local attention can compromise the generalisation of CNNs, and the quadratic complexity of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Zhaohui Chen , Elyas Asadi Shamsabadi , Sheng Jiang , Luming Shen , Daniel Dias-da-Costa

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

Achieving accurate material segmentation for 3-channel RGB images is challenging due to the considerable variation in a material's appearance. Hyperspectral images, which are sets of spectral measurements sampled at multiple wavelengths,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yuwen Heng , Yihong Wu , Jiawen Chen , Srinandan Dasmahapatra , Hansung Kim

In this paper, five different approaches for reduced-order modeling of brittle fracture in geomaterials, specifically concrete, are presented and compared. Four of the five methods rely on machine learning (ML) algorithms to approximate…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-06-07 A. Hunter , B. A. Moore , M. K. Mudunuru , V. T. Chau , R. L. Miller , R. B. Tchoua , C. Nyshadham , S. Karra , D. O. Malley , E. Rougier , H. S. Viswanathan , G. Srinivasan

Crack segmentation can play a critical role in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) by enabling accurate identification of crack size and location, which allows to monitor structural damages over time. However, deploying deep learning models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Yuxuan Zhang , Ye Xu , Luciano Sebastian Martinez-Rau , Quynh Nguyen Phuong Vu , Bengt Oelmann , Sebastian Bader

The accurate detection and segmentation of pavement distresses, particularly tiny and small cracks, are critical for early intervention and preventive maintenance in transportation infrastructure. Traditional manual inspection methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Blessing Agyei Kyem , Joshua Kofi Asamoah , Armstrong Aboah

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

Deep learning has been a successful model which can effectively represent several features of input space and remarkably improve image recognition performance on the deep architectures. In our research, an adaptive structural learning…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Shin Kamada , Takumi Ichimura

Computer vision for detecting building pathologies has interested researchers for quite some time. Vision-based crack detection is a non-destructive assessment technique, which can be useful especially for Cultural Heritage (CH) where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Panagiotis Agrafiotis , Anastastios Doulamis , Andreas Georgopoulos

This paper investigates the application of deep convolutional neural networks with prohibitively small datasets to the problem of macular edema segmentation. In particular, we investigate several different heavily regularized architectures.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-12 Jonathan Frawley , Chris G. Willcocks , Maged Habib , Caspar Geenen , David H. Steel , Boguslaw Obara

This work investigates the production of high-resolution images of typical support elements in concrete structures by means of muon tomography (muography). By exploiting detailed Monte Carlo radiation-matter simulations, we demonstrate the…

Deep learning based image segmentation methods have achieved great success, even having human-level accuracy in some applications. However, due to the black box nature of deep learning, the best method may fail in some situations. Thus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Leixin Zhou , Wenxiang Deng , Xiaodong Wu

The image classification problem has been deeply investigated by the research community, with computer vision algorithms and with the help of Neural Networks. The aim of this paper is to build an image classifier for satellite images of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Jonas Bokstaller , Yihang She , Zhehan Fu , Tommaso Macrì

Anomaly detection and localization is an important vision problem, having multiple applications. Effective and generic semantic segmentation of anomalous regions on various different surfaces, where most anomalous regions inherently do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Hrishikesh Sharma , Prakhar Pradhan , Balamuralidhar P

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

There is an increasing interest in applying deep learning to 3D mesh segmentation. We observe that 1) existing feature-based techniques are often slow or sensitive to feature resizing, 2) there are minimal comparative studies and 3)…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-02-09 David George , Xianghua Xie , Gary KL Tam