Title
Pixel-level Crack Detection using U-Net
Abstract
In this paper, we proposed an automatic crack detection method based on deep convolutional neural network-U-Net [4]. Unlike existing machine learning based crack detection methods, we can process an image as a whole without patchifying, thanks to the encoder-decoder structure of U-Net. The segmentation result is output from the network as a whole, instead of aggregation from neighborhood patches. In addition, a new cost function based on distance transform is introduced to assign pixel-level weight according to the minimal distance to the ground truth segmentation. In experiments, we test the proposed method on two datasets of road crack images. The pixel-level segmentation accuracy is above 92% which outperforms other state-of-the-art methods significantly.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/tencon.2018.8650059
TENCON IEEE Region 10 Conference Proceedings
Keywords
Field
DocType
U-Net,convolutional neural network,crack detection,crack segmentation
Pattern recognition,Segmentation,Computer science,Convolutional neural network,Image segmentation,Electronic engineering,Distance transform,Ground truth,Pixel,Artificial intelligence
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2159-3442
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jierong Cheng112.07
Wei Xiong2236.75
Wenyu Chen3114.23
Ying Gu4229.45
Yusha Li502.03