Cracks play a crucial role in assessing the safety and durability of manufactured buildings. However, the long and sharp topological features and complex background of cracks make the task of crack segmentation extremely challenging. In this paper, we propose a novel convolutional-transformer network based on encoder-decoder architecture to solve this challenge. Particularly, we designed a Dilated Residual Block (DRB) and a Boundary Awareness Module (BAM). The DRB pays attention to the local detail of cracks and adjusts the feature dimension for other blocks as needed. And the BAM learns the boundary features from the dilated crack label. Furthermore, the DRB is combined with a lightweight transformer that captures global information to serve as an effective encoder. Experimental results show that the proposed network performs better than state-of-the-art algorithms on two typical datasets. Datasets, code, and trained models are available for research at https://github.com/HqiTao/CT-crackseg.
Shantou University（汕头大学）；Sapienza University of Rome（罗马大学）；Pusan National University（釜山国立大学）
Automated pavement crack detection and measurement are important road issues. Agencies have to guarantee the improvement of road safety. Conventional crack detection and measurement algorithms can be extremely time-consuming and low efficiency. Therefore, recently, innovative algorithms have received increased attention from researchers. In this paper, we propose an ensemble of convolutional neural networks (without a pooling layer) based on probability fusion for automated pavement crack detection and measurement. Specifically, an ensemble of convolutional neural networks was employed to iden…
National Institute of Technology Durgapur（杜尔加普尔国家理工学院）
Due to cyclic loading and fatigue stress cracks are generated, which affect the safety of any civil infrastructure. Nowadays machine vision is being used to assist us for appropriate maintenance, monitoring and inspection of concrete structures by partial replacement of human-conducted onsite inspections. The current study proposes a crack detection method based on deep convolutional neural network (CNN) for detection of concrete cracks without explicitly calculating the defect features. In the course of the study, a database of 3200 labelled images with concrete cracks has been created, where…
Unity-Drive Technology Inc（深圳一清科技有限公司）；Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）；National Engineering Research Center of Road Maintenance Technologies（道路养护技术国家工程研究中心）；University of Bristol（布里斯托大学）
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 …
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) are expected to replace human in hazardous tasks of surface inspection due to their flexibility in operating space and capability of collecting high quality visual data. In this study, we propose enhanced hierarchical convolutional neural networks (HCNN) to detect cracks from image data collected by UAVs. Unlike traditional HCNN, here a set of branch networks is utilised to reduce the obscuration in the down-sampling process. Moreover, the feature preserving blocks combine the current and previous terms from the convolutional blocks to provide input to the loss f…
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 capability of dealing with different pavement conditions. Specifically, a convolutional neural network (CNN) is used to learn the structure of the cracks from raw images, without any preprocessing. Small patches are extracted from crack images as inputs to generate a large training database, a CNN is trained and crack detection is modeled as a multi-label class…
Automated pavement crack image segmentation is challenging because of inherent irregular patterns, lighting conditions, and noise in images. Conventional approaches require a substantial amount of feature engineering to differentiate crack regions from non-affected regions. In this paper, we propose a deep learning technique based on a convolutional neural network to perform segmentation tasks on pavement crack images. Our approach requires minimal feature engineering compared to other machine learning techniques. We propose a U-Net-based network architecture in which we replace the encoder wi…
University of Southern Queensland（南昆士兰大学）；Kharazmi University（哈拉兹米大学）；California Polytechnic State University（加州州立理工大学）
Development of deep learning techniques to analyse image data is an expansive and emerging field. The benefits of tracking, identifying, measuring, and sorting features of interest from image data has endless applications for saving cost, time, and improving safety. Much research has been conducted on classifying cracks from image data using deep convolutional neural networks; however, minimal research has been conducted to study the efficacy of network performance when noisy images are used. This paper will address the problem and is dedicated to investigating the influence of image noise on …
Bridges are an essential part of the transportation infrastructure and need to be monitored periodically. Visual inspections by dedicated teams have been one of the primary tools in structural health monitoring (SHM) of bridge structures. However, such conventional methods have certain shortcomings. Manual inspections may be challenging in harsh environments and are commonly biased in nature. In the last decade, camera-equipped unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used for visual inspections; however, the task of automatically extracting useful information from raw images is still …
Peking University（北京大学）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；Advanced Institute of Information Technology, Peking University（北京大学前沿信息研究院）；University of International Business and Economics（对外经济贸易大学）；Research Center on Fictitious Economy and Data Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院虚拟经济与数据科学研究中心）
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 continuity, and different sizes in length and width. However, most of the existing studies pay less attention to crack data under different situations. Meanwhile, recent algorithms based on deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) have promoted the development of cutting-edge models for crack detection. Nevertheless, they usually focus on complex models for good …
University of Technology Sydney（悉尼科技大学）；UTS - VNU Joint Technology and Innovation Research Centre（悉尼科技大学-越南国立大学联合技术创新研究中心）；University of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, Hanoi（河内越南国立大学工程技术大学）
Drone imagery is increasingly used in automated inspection for infrastructure surface defects, especially in hazardous or unreachable environments. In machine vision, the key to crack detection rests with robust and accurate algorithms for image processing. To this end, this paper proposes a deep learning approach using hierarchical convolutional neural networks with feature preservation (HCNNFP) and an intercontrast iterative thresholding algorithm for image binarization. First, a set of branch networks is proposed, wherein the output of previous convolutional blocks is half-sizedly concatena…
Georgia Institute of Technology（佐治亚理工学院）；Twentieth Century Fox（二十世纪福克斯公司）；Starfleet Academy（星际舰队学院）；Tyrell Inc.（泰伦公司）
Fully convolutional network is a powerful tool for per-pixel semantic segmentation/detection. However, it is problematic when coping with crack detection using partially accurate ground truths (GTs): the network may easily converge to the status that treats all the pixels as background (BG) and still achieves a very good loss, named "All Black" phenomenon, due to the unavailability of accurate GTs and the data imbalance. To tackle this problem, we propose crack-patch-only (CPO) supervised generative adversarial learning for end-to-end training, which forces the network to always produce crack-…
Advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) gives a great opportunity to develop an autonomous devices. The contribution of this work is an improved convolutional neural network (CNN) model and its implementation for the detection of road cracks, potholes, and yellow lane in the road. The purpose of yellow lane detection and tracking is to realize autonomous navigation of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) by following yellow lane while detecting and reporting the road cracks and potholes to the server through WIFI or 5G medium. The fabrication of own data set is a hectic and time-consuming task. …
Automatic crack detection on pavement surfaces is an important research field in the scope of developing an intelligent transportation infrastructure system. In this paper, a cost effective solution for road crack inspection by mounting commercial grade sport camera, GoPro, on the rear of the moving vehicle is introduced. Also, a novel method called ConnCrack combining conditional Wasserstein generative adversarial network and connectivity maps is proposed for road crack detection. In this method, a 121-layer densely connected neural network with deconvolution layers for multi-level feature fu…
Shantou University（汕头大学）；Sapienza University of Rome（罗马大学）；Pusan National University（釜山国立大学）
Inspired by the development of deep learning in computer vision and object detection, the proposed algorithm considers an encoder-decoder architecture with hierarchical feature learning and dilated convolution, named U-Hierarchical Dilated Network (U-HDN), to perform crack detection in an end-to-end method. Crack characteristics with multiple context information are automatically able to learn and perform end-to-end crack detection. Then, a multi-dilation module embedded in an encoder-decoder architecture is proposed. The crack features of multiple context sizes can be integrated into the mult…
Fraunhofer Institut für Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik（弗劳恩霍夫工业数学研究所）；Technische Universität Kaiserslautern（凯泽斯劳滕工业大学）
Concrete is the standard construction material for buildings, bridges, and roads. As safety plays a central role in the design, monitoring, and maintenance of such constructions, it is important to understand the cracking behavior of concrete. Computed tomography captures the microstructure of building materials and allows to study crack initiation and propagation. Manual segmentation of crack surfaces in large 3d images is not feasible. In this paper, automatic crack segmentation methods for 3d images are reviewed and compared. Classical image processing methods (edge detection filters, templ…
Topology-aware Mamba for Crack Segmentation in Structures
School of Computer Science and Engineering, Jiangsu University of Science and Technology（江苏科技大学计算机科学与工程学院）；School of Electronic and Informatics Engineering, Jiangsu University（江苏大学电子与信息工程学院）；School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Oklahoma State University（俄克拉荷马州立大学土木与环境工程学院）
The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；Minjiang University（闽江学院）
Automatic crack detection and segmentation play a significant role in the whole system of unmanned aerial vehicle inspections. In this paper, we have implemented a deep learning framework for crack detection based on classical network architectures including Alexnet, VGG, and Resnet. Moreover, inspired by the feature pyramid network architecture, a hierarchical convolutional neural network (CNN) deep learning framework which is efficient in crack segmentation is also proposed, and its performance of it is compared with other state-of-the-art network architecture. We have summarized the existin…
Compared with contact detection techniques, pavement crack identification with visual images via deep learning algorithms has the advantages of not being limited by the material of object to be detected, fast speed and low cost. The fundamental frameworks and typical model architectures of transfer learning (TL), encoder-decoder (ED), generative adversarial networks (GAN), and their common modules were first reviewed, and then the evolution of convolutional neural network (CNN) backbone models and GAN models were summarized. The crack classification, segmentation performance, and effect were t…
EfficientCrackNet: A Lightweight Model for Crack Segmentation
Aligarh Muslim University（阿里格尔穆斯林大学）；University of Massachusetts Amherst（马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校）；Chengdu University（成都大学）；Monash University Malaysia（莫纳什大学马来西亚分校）；Tohoku University（东北大学）
Staircase Cascaded Fusion of Lightweight Local Pattern Recognition and Long-Range Dependencies for Structural Crack Segmentation
Engineering Research Center of Learning-Based Intelligent System (Ministry of Education)（基于学习的智能系统工程研究中心（教育部））；Key Laboratory of Computer Vision（计算机视觉重点实验室）；Tianjin Key Laboratory of Civil Structure Protection（天津建筑物结构保护重点实验室）；Tianjin Chengjian University（天津城建大学）
Semantic video segmentation is a key challenge for various applications. This paper presents a new model named Noisy-LSTM, which is trainable in an end-to-end manner, with convolutional LSTMs (ConvLSTMs) to leverage the temporal coherency in video frames. We also present a simple yet effective training strategy, which replaces a frame in video sequence with noises. This strategy spoils the temporal coherency in video frames during training and thus makes the temporal links in ConvLSTMs unreliable, which may consequently improve feature extraction from video frames, as well as serve as a regula…
Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学）；Imperial College London（帝国理工学院）
Airway segmentation on CT scans is critical for pulmonary disease diagnosis and endobronchial navigation. Manual extraction of airway requires strenuous efforts due to the complicated structure and various appearance of airway. For automatic airway extraction, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) based methods have recently become the state-of-the-art approach. However, there still remains a challenge for CNNs to perceive the tree-like pattern and comprehend the connectivity of airway. To address this, we propose a voxel-connectivity aware approach named AirwayNet for accurate airway segmentat…
Nanjing University of Science and Technology（南京理工大学）
Graph convolutional neural network (GCN) has effectively boosted the multi-label image recognition task by introducing label dependencies based on statistical label co-occurrence of data. However, in previous methods, label correlation is computed based on statistical information of data and therefore the same for all samples, and this makes graph inference on labels insufficient to handle huge variations among numerous image instances. In this paper, we propose an instance-aware graph convolutional neural network (IA-GCN) framework for multi-label classification. As a whole, two fused branche…
This work utilizes a MobileNetV2 Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for fast, mobile detection of satellites, and rejection of stars, in cluttered unresolved space imagery. First, a custom database is created using imagery from a synthetic satellite image program and labeled with bounding boxes over satellites for "satellite-positive" images. The CNN is then trained on this database and the inference is validated by checking the accuracy of the model on an external dataset constructed of real telescope imagery. In doing so, the trained CNN provides a method of rapid satellite identification fo…
Tsinghua-Berkeley Shenzhen Institute（清华-伯克利深圳学院）；University of California, Berkeley（加州大学伯克利分校）；Affiliated Eye Hospital of Nanchang University（南昌大学附属眼科医院）
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is an abnormal blood vessel development in the retina of a prematurely-born infant or an infant with low birth weight. ROP is one of the leading causes for infant blindness globally. Early detection of ROP is critical to slow down and avert the progression to vision impairment caused by ROP. Yet there is limited awareness of ROP even among medical professionals. Consequently, dataset for ROP is limited if ever available, and is in general extremely imbalanced in terms of the ratio between negative images and positive ones. In this study, we formulate the proble…
University of South Carolina（南卡罗来纳大学）；University of Central Florida（中佛罗里达大学）；Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center（先进材料加工与分析中心）
In this paper, we utilize deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to classify the morphology of through-silicon via (TSV) extrusion in three dimensional (3D) integrated circuits (ICs). TSV extrusion is a crucial reliability concern which can deform and crack interconnect layers in 3D ICs and cause device failures. Herein, the white light interferometry (WLI) technique is used to obtain the surface profile of the extruded TSVs. We have developed a program that uses raw data obtained from WLI to create a TSV extrusion morphology dataset, including TSV images with 54x54 pixels that are labeled …
SPDCN: Strip-based Deformable Convolutional Network for Steel Surface Defect Segmentation
School of Artificial Intelligence, Jiangxi Normal University（江西师范大学人工智能学院）；Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing and Affective Computing（江西省智能信息处理与情感计算重点实验室）
We present a new four-pronged approach to build firefighter's situational awareness for the first time in the literature. We construct a series of deep learning frameworks built on top of one another to enhance the safety, efficiency, and successful completion of rescue missions conducted by firefighters in emergency first response settings. First, we used a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) system to classify and identify objects of interest from thermal imagery in real-time. Next, we extended this CNN framework for object detection, tracking, segmentation with a Mask RCNN framework, an…
For future traffic scenarios, we envision interconnected traffic participants, who exchange information about their current state, e.g., position, their predicted intentions, allowing to act in a cooperative manner. Vulnerable road users (VRUs), e.g., pedestrians and cyclists, will be equipped with smart device that can be used to detect their intentions and transmit these detected intention to approaching cars such that their drivers can be warned. In this article, we focus on detecting the initial movement of cyclist using smart devices. Smart devices provide the necessary sensors, namely ac…
Maybe you don't need a U-Net: convolutional feature upsampling for materials micrograph segmentation
Department of Materials, Imperial College London（材料系，帝国理工学院伦敦分校）；Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London（设计工程学院，帝国理工学院伦敦分校）；Finden ltd（Finden公司）；Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus（拉瑟福德-苹果顿实验室，哈罗尔德科学与创新校园）
Mustapha Stambouli University of Mascara（马斯卡拉穆斯塔法·斯坦布利大学）；University of Orleans（奥尔良大学）；Université Paris Saclay（巴黎萨克雷大学）；Univ Evry（埃夫里大学）
This paper investigates the usage of kernel functions at the different layers in a convolutional neural network. We carry out extensive studies of their impact on convolutional, pooling and fully-connected layers. We notice that the linear kernel may not be sufficiently effective to fit the input data distributions, whereas high order kernels prone to over-fitting. This leads to conclude that a trade-off between complexity and performance should be reached. We show how one can effectively leverage kernel functions, by introducing a more distortion aware pooling layers which reduces over-fittin…
For vehicle autonomy, driver assistance and situational awareness, it is necessary to operate at day and night, and in all weather conditions. In particular, long wave infrared (LWIR) sensors that receive predominantly emitted radiation have the capability to operate at night as well as during the day. In this work, we employ a polarised LWIR (POL-LWIR) camera to acquire data from a mobile vehicle, to compare and contrast four different convolutional neural network (CNN) configurations to detect other vehicles in video sequences. We evaluate two distinct and promising approaches, two-stage det…
University of California, Santa Cruz（加州大学圣克鲁兹分校）；NOAA National Ocean Service（美国国家海洋和大气管理局国家海洋局）
This paper presents a machine learning approach for the automatic identification of rip currents with breaking waves. Rip currents are dangerous fast moving currents of water that result in many deaths by sweeping people out to sea. Most people do not know how to recognize rip currents in order to avoid them. Furthermore, efforts to forecast rip currents are hindered by lack of observations to help train and validate hazard models. The presence of web cams and smart phones have made video and still imagery of the coast ubiquitous and provide a potential source of rip current observations. Thes…
Visual defect assessment is a form of anomaly detection. This is very relevant in finding faults such as cracks and markings in various surface inspection tasks like pavement and automotive parts. The task involves detection of deviation/divergence of anomalous samples from the normal ones. Two of the major challenges in supervised anomaly detection are the lack of labelled training data and the low availability of anomaly instances. Semi-supervised methods which learn the underlying distribution of the normal samples and then measure the deviation/divergence from the estimated model as the an…
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（北京邮电大学）；Zhejiang Lab（之江实验室）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）；University of Science and Technology Beijing（北京科技大学）
Limited by the locality of convolutional neural networks, most existing local features description methods only learn local descriptors with local information and lack awareness of global and surrounding spatial context. In this work, we focus on making local descriptors "look wider to describe better" by learning local Descriptors with More Than just Local information (MTLDesc). Specifically, we resort to context augmentation and spatial attention mechanisms to make our MTLDesc obtain non-local awareness. First, Adaptive Global Context Augmented Module and Diverse Local Context Augmented Modu…
aHead Research ETS（aHead研究ETS）；Sapienza University of Rome（罗马大学）
Quality control of apparel items is mandatory in modern textile industry, as consumer's awareness and expectations about the highest possible standard is constantly increasing in favor of sustainable and ethical textile products. Such a level of quality is achieved by checking the product throughout its life cycle, from raw materials to boxed stock. Checks may include color shading tests, fasteners fatigue tests, fabric weigh tests, contamination tests, etc. This work deals specifically with the automatic detection of contaminations given by small parts in the finished product such as raw mate…
Population growth in the last decades has resulted in the production of about 2.01 billion tons of municipal waste per year. The current waste management systems are not capable of providing adequate solutions for the disposal and use of these wastes. Recycling and reuse have proven to be a solution to the problem, but large-scale waste segregation is a tedious task and on a small scale it depends on public awareness. This research used convolutional neural networks and computer vision to develop a tool for the automation of solid waste sorting. The Fotini10k dataset was constructed, which has…
National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所模式识别国家重点实验室）；School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学人工智能学院）
Point cloud analysis is very challenging, as the shape implied in irregular points is difficult to capture. In this paper, we propose RS-CNN, namely, Relation-Shape Convolutional Neural Network, which extends regular grid CNN to irregular configuration for point cloud analysis. The key to RS-CNN is learning from relation, i.e., the geometric topology constraint among points. Specifically, the convolutional weight for local point set is forced to learn a high-level relation expression from predefined geometric priors, between a sampled point from this point set and the others. In this way, an i…
Awareness detection technologies have been gaining traction in a variety of enterprises; most often used for driver fatigue detection, recent research has shifted towards using computer vision technologies to analyze user attention in environments such as online classrooms. This paper aims to extend previous research on distraction detection by analyzing which visual features contribute most to predicting awareness and fatigue. We utilized the open source facial analysis toolkit OpenFace in order to analyze visual data of subjects at varying levels of attentiveness. Then, using a Support-Vecto…
