scholarly journals A Novel Approach for Automatic Detection of Concrete Surface Voids Using Image Texture Analysis and History-Based Adaptive Differential Evolution Optimized Support Vector Machine

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Nhat-Duc Hoang ◽  
Quoc-Lam Nguyen

To inspect the quality of concrete structures, surface voids or bugholes existing on a concrete surface after the casting process needs to be detected. To improve the productivity of the inspection work, this study develops a hybrid intelligence approach that combines image texture analysis, machine learning, and metaheuristic optimization. Image texture computations employ the Gabor filter and gray-level run lengths to characterize the condition of a concrete surface. Based on features of image texture, Support Vector Machines (SVM) establish a decision boundary that separates collected image samples into two categories of no surface void (negative class) and surface void (positive class). Furthermore, to assist the SVM model training phase, the state-of-the-art history-based adaptive differential evolution with linear population size reduction (L-SHADE) is utilized. The hybrid intelligence approach, named as L-SHADE-SVM-SVD, has been developed and complied in Visual C#.NET framework. Experiments with 1000 image samples show that the L-SHADE-SVM-SVD can obtain a high prediction accuracy of roughly 93%. Therefore, the newly developed model can be a promising alternative for construction inspectors in concrete quality assessment.

Author(s):  
Miroslav Benco ◽  
Patrik Kamencay ◽  
Robert Hudec ◽  
Martina Radilova ◽  
Peter Sykora

Measurement ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 130-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samik Dutta ◽  
Kaustav Barat ◽  
Arpan Das ◽  
Swapan Kumar Das ◽  
A.K. Shukla ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (suppl_6) ◽  
pp. vi128-vi128
Author(s):  
Manabu Kinoshita ◽  
Hideyuki Arita ◽  
Toshiki Yoshimine ◽  
Masamichi Takahashi ◽  
Yoshitaka Narita ◽  
...  

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umasankar Kandaswamy ◽  
Donald A. Adjeroh ◽  
M. C. Lee

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Tuan Vu Dinh ◽  
Hieu Nguyen ◽  
Xuan-Linh Tran ◽  
Nhat-Duc Hoang

Soil erosion induced by rainfall is a critical problem in many regions in the world, particularly in tropical areas where the annual rainfall amount often exceeds 2000 mm. Predicting soil erosion is a challenging task, subjecting to variation of soil characteristics, slope, vegetation cover, land management, and weather condition. Conventional models based on the mechanism of soil erosion processes generally provide good results but are time-consuming due to calibration and validation. The goal of this study is to develop a machine learning model based on support vector machine (SVM) for soil erosion prediction. The SVM serves as the main prediction machinery establishing a nonlinear function that maps considered influencing factors to accurate predictions. In addition, in order to improve the accuracy of the model, the history-based adaptive differential evolution with linear population size reduction and population-wide inertia term (L-SHADE-PWI) is employed to find an optimal set of parameters for SVM. Thus, the proposed method, named L-SHADE-PWI-SVM, is an integration of machine learning and metaheuristic optimization. For the purpose of training and testing the method, a dataset consisting of 236 samples of soil erosion in Northwest Vietnam is collected with 10 influencing factors. The training set includes 90% of the original dataset; the rest of the dataset is reserved for assessing the generalization capability of the model. The experimental results indicate that the newly developed L-SHADE-PWI-SVM method is a competitive soil erosion predictor with superior performance statistics. Most importantly, L-SHADE-PWI-SVM can achieve a high classification accuracy rate of 92%, which is much better than that of backpropagation artificial neural network (87%) and radial basis function artificial neural network (78%).


2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 1636-1645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuaibing Li ◽  
Guoqiang Gao ◽  
Guangcai Hu ◽  
Bo Gao ◽  
Tianshan Gao ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Haotian Zhai ◽  
Hongbin Huang ◽  
Shaoyan He ◽  
Weiping Liu

Texture analysis plays an important role in image processing. In the field of texture analysis, the regular texture has been studied a lot, but the natural texture with complex backgrounds is less studied. This paper brings texture analysis into the study of rice paper's classification. First of all it shows the processing flow chart of rice paper classification. By comparing the different kinds of texture analysis methods it chooses the LAWS texture method and uncertainty texture spectrum method to achieve the rice paper classification. When it uses the two texture analysis methods separately, the classification accuracy of rice paper is lower, so it tries to combine the two texture analysis methods. The experimental results show that the classification result got with two combined texture analysis methods is better than that got with one single texture analysis method. The classification accuracy of rice paper has been distinctly improved after the combination of the two texture analysis methods.


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