Construction of Accurate Crack Identification on Concrete Structure using Hybrid Deep Learning Approach

Abstract

In general, several conservative techniques are available for detecting cracks in concrete bridges but they have significant limitations, including low accuracy and efficiency. Due to the expansion of the neural network method, the performance of digital image processing based crack identification has recently diminished. Many single classifier approaches are used to detect the cracks with high accuracy. The classifiers are not concentrating on random fluctuation in the training dataset and also it reflects in the final output as an over-fitting phenomenon. Though this model contains many parameters to justify the training data, it fails in the residual variation. These residual variations are frequent in UAV recorded photos as well as many camera images. To reduce this challenge, a noise reduction technique is utilized along with an SVM classifier to reduce classification error. The proposed technique is more resourceful by performing classification via SVM approach, and further the feature extraction and network training has been implemented by using the CNN method. The captured digital images are processed by incorporating the bending test through reinforced concrete beams. Moreover, the proposed method is determining the widths of the crack by employing binary conversion in the captured images. The proposed model outperforms conservative techniques, single type classifiers, and image segmentation type process methods in terms of accuracy. The obtained results have proved that, the proposed hybrid method is more accurate and suitable for crack detection in concrete bridges especially in the unmanned environment.

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