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Image‐Based Crack Detection for Real Concrete Surfaces
Author(s) -
Yamaguchi Tomoyuki,
Nakamura Shingo,
Saegusa Ryo,
Hashimoto Shuji
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
ieej transactions on electrical and electronic engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.254
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1931-4981
pISSN - 1931-4973
DOI - 10.1002/tee.20244
Subject(s) - computer science , noise (video) , image (mathematics) , artificial intelligence , percolation (cognitive psychology) , computer vision , fidelity , noise reduction , scalability , brightness , texture (cosmology) , structural engineering , engineering , optics , database , telecommunications , physics , neuroscience , biology
In this paper, we introduce a novel image‐based approach to detect cracks in concrete surfaces. Crack detection is important for the inspection, diagnosis, and maintenance of concrete structures. However, conventional image‐based approaches cannot achieve precise detection since the image of the concrete surface contains various types of noise due to different causes such as concrete blebs, stain, insufficient contrast, and shading. In order to detect the cracks with high fidelity, we assume that they are composed of thin interconnected textures and propose an image‐based percolation model that extracts a continuous texture by referring to the connectivity of brightness and the shape of the percolated region, depending on the length criterion of the scalable local image processing techniques. Additionally, noise reduction based on the percolation model is proposed. We evaluated the validity of the proposed technique by using precision recall and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis by means of some experiments with actual concrete surface images. Copyright © 2007 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.