scholarly journals Image-Based Concrete Crack Detection Using Convolutional Neural Network and Exhaustive Search Technique

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shengyuan Li ◽  
Xuefeng Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Crack Detection ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Smartphone Application ◽  
Concrete Surface ◽  
Search Technique ◽  
Concrete Crack ◽  
Learning Rates ◽  
Complex Image

Crack detection is important for the inspection and evaluation during the maintenance of concrete structures. However, conventional image-based methods need extract crack features using complex image preprocessing techniques, so it can lead to challenges when concrete surface contains various types of noise due to extensively varying real-world situations such as thin cracks, rough surface, shadows, etc. To overcome these challenges, this paper proposes an image-based crack detection method using a deep convolutional neural network (CNN). A CNN is designed through modifying AlexNet and then trained and validated using a built database with 60000 images. Through comparing validation accuracy under different base learning rates, 0.01 was chosen as the best base learning rate with the highest validation accuracy of 99.06%, and its training result is used in the following testing process. The robustness and adaptability of the trained CNN are tested on 205 images with 3120 × 4160 pixel resolutions which were not used for training and validation. The trained CNN is integrated into a smartphone application to mobile more public to detect cracks in practice. The results confirm that the proposed method can indeed detect cracks in images from real concrete surfaces.

scholarly journals Automatic Tunnel Crack Detection Based on U-Net and a Convolutional Neural Network with Alternately Updated Clique

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 717 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gang Li ◽  
Biao Ma ◽  
Shuanhai He ◽  
Xueli Ren ◽  
Qiangwei Liu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Crack Width ◽  
Crack Detection ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Learning Algorithm ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Fully Convolutional Networks ◽  
Deep Learning Algorithm ◽  
Mean Width

Regular crack inspection of tunnels is essential to guarantee their safe operation. At present, the manual detection method is time-consuming, subjective and even dangerous, while the automatic detection method is relatively inaccurate. Detecting tunnel cracks is a challenging task since cracks are tiny, and there are many noise patterns in the tunnel images. This study proposes a deep learning algorithm based on U-Net and a convolutional neural network with alternately updated clique (CliqueNet), called U-CliqueNet, to separate cracks from background in the tunnel images. A consumer-grade DSC-WX700 camera (SONY, Wuxi, China) was used to collect 200 original images, then cracks are manually marked and divided into sub-images with a resolution of 496   ×   496 pixels. A total of 60,000 sub-images were obtained in the dataset of tunnel cracks, among which 50,000 were used for training and 10,000 were used for testing. The proposed framework conducted training and testing on this dataset, the mean pixel accuracy (MPA), mean intersection over union (MIoU), precision and F1-score are 92.25%, 86.96%, 86.32% and 83.40%, respectively. We compared the U-CliqueNet with fully convolutional networks (FCN), U-net, Encoder–decoder network (SegNet) and the multi-scale fusion crack detection (MFCD) algorithm using hypothesis testing, and it’s proved that the MIoU predicted by U-CliqueNet was significantly higher than that of the other four algorithms. The area, length and mean width of cracks can be calculated, and the relative error between the detected mean crack width and the actual mean crack width ranges from −11.20% to 18.57%. The results show that this framework can be used for fast and accurate crack semantic segmentation of tunnel images.

A vision-based active learning convolutional neural network model for concrete surface crack detection

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (13) ◽  
pp. 2952-2964
Author(s):  
Zhen Wang ◽  
Guoshan Xu ◽  
Yong Ding ◽  
Bin Wu ◽  
Guoyu Lu
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Surface Crack ◽  
Crack Detection ◽  
Concrete Surface ◽  
Learning Ability ◽  
Training Method ◽  
And Training ◽  
New Framework

Concrete surface crack detection based on computer vision, specifically via a convolutional neural network, has drawn increasing attention for replacing manual visual inspection of bridges and buildings. This article proposes a new framework for this task and a sampling and training method based on active learning to treat class imbalances. In particular, the new framework includes a clear definition of two categories of samples, a relevant sliding window technique, data augmentation and annotation methods. The advantages of this framework are that data integrity can be ensured and a very large amount of annotation work can be saved. Training datasets generated with the proposed sampling and training method not only are representative of the original dataset but also highlight samples that are highly complex, yet informative. Based on the proposed framework and sampling and training strategy, AlexNet is re-tuned, validated, tested and compared with an existing network. The investigation revealed outstanding performances of the proposed framework in terms of the detection accuracy, precision and F1 measure due to its nonlinear learning ability, training dataset integrity and active learning strategy.

scholarly journals Deep Learning-Based Feature Silencing for Accurate Concrete Crack Detection

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (16) ◽  
pp. 4403
Author(s):  
Umme Hafsa Billah ◽  
Hung Manh La ◽  
Alireza Tavakkoli
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Crack Detection ◽  
Inspection System ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Feature Maps ◽  
Neural Network Architecture ◽  
Concrete Crack ◽  
Discriminative Feature

An autonomous concrete crack inspection system is necessary for preventing hazardous incidents arising from deteriorated concrete surfaces. In this paper, we present a concrete crack detection framework to aid the process of automated inspection. The proposed approach employs a deep convolutional neural network architecture for crack segmentation, while addressing the effect of gradient vanishing problem. A feature silencing module is incorporated in the proposed framework, capable of eliminating non-discriminative feature maps from the network to improve performance. Experimental results support the benefit of incorporating feature silencing within a convolutional neural network architecture for improving the network’s robustness, sensitivity, and specificity. An added benefit of the proposed architecture is its ability to accommodate for the trade-off between specificity (positive class detection accuracy) and sensitivity (negative class detection accuracy) with respect to the target application. Furthermore, the proposed framework achieves a high precision rate and processing time than the state-of-the-art crack detection architectures.

scholarly journals Vision-Based Autonomous Crack Detection of Concrete Structures Using a Fully Convolutional Encoder–Decoder Network

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (19) ◽  
pp. 4251 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Manjurul Islam ◽  
Jong-Myon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Crack Detection ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Semantic Segmentation ◽  
Civil Infrastructure ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Concrete Crack ◽  
Common Trend ◽  
Convolutional Encoder

The visual inspection of massive civil infrastructure is a common trend for maintaining its reliability and structural health. However, this procedure, which uses human inspectors, requires long inspection times and relies on the subjective and empirical knowledge of the inspectors. To address these limitations, a machine vision-based autonomous crack detection method is proposed using a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) technique. It consists of a fully convolutional neural network (FCN) with an encoder and decoder framework for semantic segmentation, which performs pixel-wise classification to accurately detect cracks. The main idea is to capture the global context of a scene and determine whether cracks are in the image while also providing a reduced and essential picture of the crack locations. The visual geometry group network (VGGNet), a variant of the DCCN, is employed as a backbone in the proposed FCN for end-to-end training. The efficacy of the proposed FCN method is tested on a publicly available benchmark dataset of concrete crack images. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method is highly effective for concrete crack classification, obtaining scores of approximately 92% for both the recall and F1 average.

scholarly journals Deep Learning Based Feature Silencing for Accurate Concrete Crack Detection

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umme Billah ◽  
Hung La ◽  
Alireza Tavakkoli
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Crack Detection ◽  
Inspection System ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Feature Maps ◽  
Neural Network Architecture ◽  
Concrete Crack ◽  
Positive Class

An autonomous concrete crack inspection system is necessary for preventing hazardous incidents arising from deteriorated concrete surfaces. In this paper, we represent a concrete crack detection framework to aid the process of automated inspection. The proposed approach employs a deep convolutional neural network architecture for crack segmentation from concrete image. The proposed network alleviates the effect of gradient vanishing problem present in deep neural network architectures. A feature silencing module is incorporated in the crack detection framework, for eliminating unnecessary feature maps from the network. The overall performance of the network significantly improves as a result. Experimental results support the benefit of incorporating feature silencing within a convolutional neural network architecture for improving the network’s robustness, sensitivity, and specificity. An added benefit of the proposed architecture is its ability to accommodate for the trade-off between specificity (positive class detection accuracy) and sensitivity (negative class detection accuracy) with respect to the target application. Furthermore, the proposed framework achieves a high precision rate and processing time than crack detection architectures present in literature.

scholarly journals Exploring the Detection Accuracy of Concrete Cracks Using Various CNN Models

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Mohammed Ameen Mohammed ◽  
Zheng Han ◽  
Yange Li
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Crack Detection ◽  
Detection Accuracy ◽  
Neural Network Architecture ◽  
Low Loss ◽  
Comparison Result ◽  
Concrete Crack ◽  
Comprehensive Comparison

Automatic crack detection with the least amount of workforce has become a crucial task in the inspection and evaluation of the performances of concrete structure in civil engineering. Recently, although many concrete crack detection models based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been developed, the accuracy of the proposed models varies. Up-to-date, the issue regarding the convolutional neural network architecture with best performance for detecting concrete cracks is still debated in many previous studies. In this paper, we choose three established open-source CNN models (Model1, Model2, and Model3) which have been well-illustrated and verified in previous studies and test them for the purpose of crack detection of concrete structures. The chosen three models are trained using a concrete crack dataset containing 40,000 images those with 227 × 227-pixel in size. The performance of three different convolutional neural network (CNN) models was then evaluated. The comprehensive comparison result indicates that Model2 which used batch normalization is capable of the best performance amongst the three models as selected for concrete cracks detection, with recording the highest classification accuracy and low loss. In a conclusion, we recommend Model2 for a concrete crack detection task.

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