Concrete crack pixel-level segmentation : a comparison of scene illumination angle of incidence
Dow, Hamish and Perry, Marcus and McAlorum, Jack and Pennada, Sanjeetha (2024) Concrete crack pixel-level segmentation : a comparison of scene illumination angle of incidence. e-Journal of Nondestructive Testing, EWSHM 202. ISSN 1435-4934 (https://doi.org/10.58286/29683)
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Abstract
Previous research has demonstrated how angled and directional lighting can enhance the detection of concrete cracks in low-light environments and outperform diffused lighting alternatives. This paper investigates the effect of different angles of incidence of directional lighting for concrete crack pixel-level segmentation. Five directional lighting datasets of cracked concrete slabs were captured, each using an angle of incidence of 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 degrees, respectively. A directional lighting crack segmentation algorithm was applied to each lighting angle dataset. Algorithm output comparisons with ground truths revealed that the directional lighting method performed best on the 50-degree lighting dataset, obtaining a recall, precision, and F1 score of 68%, 81%, and 74%, respectively. However, qualitative analysis of the segmentation outputs on a sub-image scale revealed that towards the edges of the images, the segmentation performance of 30-degree lighting was significantly better, with results closely matching those of the ground truth. This research highlights that the lighting angle of incidence can increase the performance of directional lighting concrete crack segmentation depending on defect position. The results from this work have the potential to improve low-light environment concrete crack detection and monitoring.
ORCID iDs
Dow, Hamish ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1431-7063, Perry, Marcus ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9173-8198, McAlorum, Jack ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8348-9945 and Pennada, Sanjeetha;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 90066 Dates: DateEvent1 July 2024Published30 January 2024AcceptedSubjects: Technology > Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Department: Faculty of Engineering > Civil and Environmental Engineering Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 26 Jul 2024 15:06 Last modified: 02 Oct 2024 13:22 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/90066