Automatic Crack Detection using Mask R-CNN

In order to avoid possible failures and prevent damage in civil infrastructures, such as tunnels and bridges, inspection should be done on a regular basis. Cracks are one of the earliest indications of degradation, hence, their detection allows preventive measures to be taken to avoid further damage...

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Published in:2019 11th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA) pp. 152 - 157
Main Authors: Attard, Leanne, Debono, Carl James, Valentino, Gianluca, Di Castro, Mario, Masi, Alessandro, Scibile, Luigi
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 01.09.2019
Subjects:
crack detection
Feature extraction
Inspection
mask r-cnn
object detection
Pipelines
Signal processing
Surface cracks
Surface morphology
Training
vision-based inspection
ISSN:1849-2266
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Summary:In order to avoid possible failures and prevent damage in civil infrastructures, such as tunnels and bridges, inspection should be done on a regular basis. Cracks are one of the earliest indications of degradation, hence, their detection allows preventive measures to be taken to avoid further damage. In this paper, we demonstrate that Mask R-CNN can be used to localize cracks on concrete surfaces and obtain their corresponding masks to aid extract other properties that are useful for inspection. Such a tool can help mitigate the drawbacks of manual inspection by automating crack detection, lowering time consumption in executing this task, reducing costs and increasing the safety of the personnel. To train Mask R-CNN for crack detection we built a groundtruth database of masks on images from a subset of a standard crack dataset. Tests on the trained model achieved a precision value of 93.94 % and a recall of 77.5 %.
ISSN:1849-2266
DOI:10.1109/ISPA.2019.8868619