A crack detection system of subway tunnel based on image processing

For the images of crack defects of subway tunnel, traditional image processing algorithms is hardly effective for dealing with problems existing in the image like uneven illumination or severe noise interference. Based on pixel-level processing, an improved crack detection algorithm is proposed usin...

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Main Authors: Liu, X. (Author), Wang, Y. (Author), Yu, Z. (Author), Zhu, L. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publications Ltd 2022
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245 1 0 |a A crack detection system of subway tunnel based on image processing 
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520 3 |a For the images of crack defects of subway tunnel, traditional image processing algorithms is hardly effective for dealing with problems existing in the image like uneven illumination or severe noise interference. Based on pixel-level processing, an improved crack detection algorithm is proposed using structural analysis for improving the quality of tunnel images. Firstly, image preprocessing transforms the raw images of tunnel surface into binary images containing crack pixels and noise pixels. To extract crack information from binary images, three kinds of interference components are removed by structural analysis. With few interference components remaining in the image, the width of crack can be calculated according to the mean and standard deviation of the local area of the crack. Based on the algorithm, a crack detection system is designed, and a tunnel inspection experiment is conducted in a subway tunnel to capture tunnel surface images. Compared with popular image processing method, the crack recognition rate of the proposed method is 91.15% which is approximately 10% higher than others, and the measurement result of crack width based on the proposed method is closer to the ground truth. The experiment result indicates that the proposed method shows a better performance in crack detection. © The Author(s) 2022. 
650 0 4 |a Binary images 
650 0 4 |a Computer vision 
650 0 4 |a Crack defects 
650 0 4 |a crack detection 
650 0 4 |a Crack detection 
650 0 4 |a Crack detection system 
650 0 4 |a image acquisition 
650 0 4 |a Image acquisition 
650 0 4 |a Image analysis 
650 0 4 |a Image enhancement 
650 0 4 |a image processing 
650 0 4 |a Image processing algorithm 
650 0 4 |a Images processing 
650 0 4 |a Interference components 
650 0 4 |a machine vision 
650 0 4 |a Machine-vision 
650 0 4 |a Noise interference 
650 0 4 |a Pixels 
650 0 4 |a Processing 
650 0 4 |a Railroads 
650 0 4 |a Structural analysis 
650 0 4 |a subway tunnel 
650 0 4 |a Subway tunnels 
650 0 4 |a Tunnel surface 
650 0 4 |a Uneven illuminations 
700 1 0 |a Liu, X.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Wang, Y.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Yu, Z.  |e author 
700 1 0 |a Zhu, L.  |e author 
773 |t Measurement and Control (United Kingdom) 
856 |z View Fulltext in Publisher  |u https://doi.org/10.1177/00202940211062015