Detection of Surface Crack in Building Structures Using Image Processing Technique with an Improved Otsu Method for Image Thresholding

The detection of cracks is a crucial task in monitoring structural health and ensuring structural safety. The manual process of crack detection is painstakingly time-consuming and suffers from subjective judgments of inspectors. This study establishes an intelligent model based on image processing techniques for automatic crack recognition and analyses. In the new model, a gray intensity adjustment method, called Min-Max Gray Level Discrimination (M2GLD), is proposed to preprocess the image thresholded by the Otsu method. The goal of this gray intensity adjustment method is to meliorate the accuracy of the crack detection results. Experimental results point out that the integration of M2GLD and the Otsu method, followed by other shape analysis algorithms, can successfully detect crack defects in digital images. Therefore, the constructed model can be a useful tool for building management agencies and construction engineers in the task of structure maintenance.

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Review on Buildings Health Monitoring System by Using Hybrid Data Optimization Based on Machine Learning Algorithm

International Journal of Advanced Research in Science, Communication and Technology ◽

10.48175/ijarsct-857 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 25-29

Author(s):

Shweta D Shenmare

Keyword(s):

Crack Detection ◽

Learning Algorithm ◽

Structural Safety ◽

Adjustment Method ◽

Building Management ◽

Otsu Method ◽

Hybrid Data ◽

Gray Intensity ◽

Processing Techniques ◽

Intelligent Model

The detection of cracks is a crucial task in monitoring structural health and ensuring structural safety. The manual process of crack detection is pains takingly time-consuming and suﬀers from subjective judgments of inspectors. This study establishes an intelligent model based on image processing techniques for automatic crack recognition and analyses. In the new model, a gray intensity adjustment method, called Min-Max Gray Level Discrimination (M2GLD), is proposed to preprocess the image thresholded by the Otsu method. The goal of this gray intensity adjustment method is to meliorate the accuracy of the crack detection results. Experimental results point out that the integration of M2GLD and the Otsu method, followed by other shape analysis algorithms, can successfully detect crack defects in digital images. Therefore, the constructed model can be a useful tool for building management agencies and construction engineers in the task of structure maintenance.

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Development of Image Processing for Crack Detection on Concrete Structures through Terrestrial Laser Scanning Associated with the Octree Structure

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app8122373 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (12) ◽

pp. 2373 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Soojin Cho ◽

Seunghee Park ◽

Gichun Cha ◽

Taekeun Oh

Keyword(s):

Image Processing ◽

Laser Scanning ◽

Crack Detection ◽

Surface Condition ◽

Terrestrial Laser Scanning ◽

Processing Technique ◽

Image Processing Technique ◽

Morphological Operations ◽

Cloud Data ◽

Remote Sensing Technique

Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) provides a rapid remote sensing technique to model 3D objects but can also be used to assess the surface condition of structures. In this study, an effective image processing technique is proposed for crack detection on images extracted from the octree structure of TLS data. To efficiently utilize TLS for the surface condition assessment of large structures, a process was constructed to compress the original scanned data based on the octree structure. The point cloud data obtained by TLS was converted into voxel data, and further converted into an octree data structure, which significantly reduced the data size but minimized the loss of resolution to detect cracks on the surface. The compressed data was then used to detect cracks on the surface using a combination of image processing algorithms. The crack detection procedure involved the following main steps: (1) classification of an image into three categories (i.e., background, structural joints and sediments, and surface) using K-means clustering according to color similarity, (2) deletion of non-crack parts on the surface using improved subtraction combined with median filtering and K-means clustering results, (3) detection of major crack objects on the surface based on Otsu’s binarization method, and (4) highlighting crack objects by morphological operations. The proposed technique was validated on a spillway wall of a concrete dam structure in South Korea. The scanned data was compressed up to 50% of the original scanned data, while showing good performance in detecting cracks with various shapes.

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A Study of Methods using Image Processing Technique in Crack Detection

2020 2nd International Conference on Innovative Mechanisms for Industry Applications (ICIMIA) ◽

10.1109/icimia48430.2020.9074966 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

S. Agnes Shifani ◽

P. Thulasiram ◽

K. Narendran ◽

D.R. Sanjay

Keyword(s):

Image Processing ◽

Crack Detection ◽

Processing Technique ◽

Image Processing Technique

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A New Image Processing Technique for STEM

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100052171 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 32 ◽

pp. 432-433

Author(s):

Yasushi Kokubo ◽

Hirotami Koike ◽

Teruo Someya

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Image Processing ◽

Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽

Elastic Scattering ◽

Field Emission ◽

Processing Technique ◽

Image Processing Technique ◽

Energy Analyzer ◽

Scanning Microscope ◽

Scanning Electron

One of the advantages of scanning electron microscopy is the capability for processing the image contrast, i.e., the image processing technique. Crewe et al were the first to apply this technique to a field emission scanning microscope and show images of individual atoms. They obtained a contrast which depended exclusively on the atomic numbers of specimen elements (Zcontrast), by displaying the images treated with the intensity ratio of elastically scattered to inelastically scattered electrons. The elastic scattering electrons were extracted by a solid detector and inelastic scattering electrons by an energy analyzer. We noted, however, that there is a possibility of the same contrast being obtained only by using an annular-type solid detector consisting of multiple concentric detector elements.

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A Comparative Study of Ant and Genetic Algorithms in Digital Mammography

International Journal of Scientific Research in Computer Science Engineering and Information Technology ◽

10.32628/cseit183863 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 194-200

Author(s):

J. Magelin Mary ◽

Chitra K. ◽

Y. Arockia Suganthi

Keyword(s):

Genetic Algorithm ◽

Image Processing ◽

Medical Image ◽

Medical Image Processing ◽

Processing Technique ◽

Input Image ◽

Image Processing Technique ◽

Computational Time ◽

Image Mining ◽

The Individual

Image processing technique in general, involves the application of signal processing on the input image for isolating the individual color plane of an image. It plays an important role in the image analysis and computer version. This paper compares the efficiency of two approaches in the area of finding breast cancer in medical image processing. The fundamental target is to apply an image mining in the area of medical image handling utilizing grouping guideline created by genetic algorithm. The parameter using extracted border, the border pixels are considered as population strings to genetic algorithm and Ant Colony Optimization, to find out the optimum value from the border pixels. We likewise look at cost of ACO and GA also, endeavors to discover which one gives the better solution to identify an affected area in medical image based on computational time.

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An Enhanced Technique for Classification of Fruits using Shape Color and Texture Features

International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering ◽

10.23956/ijarcsse/v7i7/0107 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 7 (7) ◽

pp. 408

Author(s):

Yashpal Jitarwal ◽

Tabrej Ahamad Khan ◽

Pawan Mangal

Keyword(s):

Image Processing ◽

Texture Features ◽

Automatic Classification ◽

Processing Technique ◽

Image Processing Technique ◽

Advance Technique ◽

Time Required ◽

Fruit Sorting ◽

Human Inspection

In earlier times fruits were sorted manually and it was very time consuming and laborious task. Human sorted the fruits of the basis of shape, size and color. Time taken by human to sort the fruits is very large therefore to reduce the time and to increase the accuracy, an automatic classification of fruits comes into existence.To improve this human inspection and reduce time required for fruit sorting an advance technique is developed that accepts information about fruits from their images, and is called as Image Processing Technique.

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