Journal
STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 1428-1442Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1475921720917227
Keywords
SrcNet; super resolution; digital image; automated crack detection; deep learning; in situ bridge test; climbing robot; unmanned aerial vehicle
Funding
- Technology Advancement Research Program (TARP) - Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of the Korea Government [19CTAP-C152120-01]
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This article introduces a new deep learning approach, SrcNet, which improves crack detection by enhancing the resolution of raw digital images. Experimental results show a 24% improvement in crack detection compared to using raw images.
This article proposes a new end-to-end deep super-resolution crack network (SrcNet) for improving computer vision-based automated crack detectability. The digital images acquired from large-scale civil infrastructures for crack detection using unmanned robots often suffer from motion blur and lack of pixel resolution, which may degrade the corresponding crack detectability. The proposed SrcNet is able to significantly enhance the crack detectability by augmenting the pixel resolution of the raw digital image through deep learning. SrcNet basically consists of two phases: phase I-deep learning-based super resolution (SR) image generation and phase II-deep learning-based automated crack detection. Once the raw digital images are obtained from a target bridge surface, phase I of SrcNet generates the corresponding SR images to the raw digital images. Then, phase II automatically detects cracks from the generated SR images, making it possible to remarkably improve the crack detectability. SrcNet is experimentally validated using the digital images obtained using a climbing robot and an unmanned aerial vehicle from in situ concrete bridges located in South Korea. The validation test results reveal that the proposed SrcNet shows 24% better crack detectability compared to the crack detection results using the raw digital images.
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