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Automatic Pixel-Level Pavement Crack Recognition Using a Deep Feature Aggregation Segmentation Network with a scSE Attention Mechanism Module

Pavement crack detection is essential for safe driving. The traditional manual crack detection method is highly subjective and time-consuming. Hence, an automatic pavement crack detection system is needed to facilitate this progress. However, this is still a challenging task due to the complex topol...

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Autores principales: Qiao, Wenting, Liu, Qiangwei, Wu, Xiaoguang, Ma, Biao, Li, Gang
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8122701/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33919128
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21092902
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author Qiao, Wenting
Liu, Qiangwei
Wu, Xiaoguang
Ma, Biao
Li, Gang
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Liu, Qiangwei
Wu, Xiaoguang
Ma, Biao
Li, Gang
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description Pavement crack detection is essential for safe driving. The traditional manual crack detection method is highly subjective and time-consuming. Hence, an automatic pavement crack detection system is needed to facilitate this progress. However, this is still a challenging task due to the complex topology and large noise interference of crack images. Recently, although deep learning-based technologies have achieved breakthrough progress in crack detection, there are still some challenges, such as large parameters and low detection efficiency. Besides, most deep learning-based crack detection algorithms find it difficult to establish good balance between detection accuracy and detection speed. Inspired by the latest deep learning technology in the field of image processing, this paper proposes a novel crack detection algorithm based on the deep feature aggregation network with the spatial-channel squeeze & excitation (scSE) attention mechanism module, which calls CrackDFANet. Firstly, we cut the collected crack images into 512 × 512 pixel image blocks to establish a crack dataset. Then through iterative optimization on the training and validation sets, we obtained a crack detection model with good robustness. Finally, the CrackDFANet model verified on a total of 3516 images in five datasets with different sizes and containing different noise interferences. Experimental results show that the trained CrackDFANet has strong anti-interference ability, and has better robustness and generalization ability under the interference of light interference, parking line, water stains, plant disturbance, oil stains, and shadow conditions. Furthermore, the CrackDFANet is found to be better than other state-of-the-art algorithms with more accurate detection effect and faster detection speed. Meanwhile, our algorithm model parameters and error rates are significantly reduced.
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spelling pubmed-81227012021-05-16 Automatic Pixel-Level Pavement Crack Recognition Using a Deep Feature Aggregation Segmentation Network with a scSE Attention Mechanism Module Qiao, Wenting Liu, Qiangwei Wu, Xiaoguang Ma, Biao Li, Gang Sensors (Basel) Article Pavement crack detection is essential for safe driving. The traditional manual crack detection method is highly subjective and time-consuming. Hence, an automatic pavement crack detection system is needed to facilitate this progress. However, this is still a challenging task due to the complex topology and large noise interference of crack images. Recently, although deep learning-based technologies have achieved breakthrough progress in crack detection, there are still some challenges, such as large parameters and low detection efficiency. Besides, most deep learning-based crack detection algorithms find it difficult to establish good balance between detection accuracy and detection speed. Inspired by the latest deep learning technology in the field of image processing, this paper proposes a novel crack detection algorithm based on the deep feature aggregation network with the spatial-channel squeeze & excitation (scSE) attention mechanism module, which calls CrackDFANet. Firstly, we cut the collected crack images into 512 × 512 pixel image blocks to establish a crack dataset. Then through iterative optimization on the training and validation sets, we obtained a crack detection model with good robustness. Finally, the CrackDFANet model verified on a total of 3516 images in five datasets with different sizes and containing different noise interferences. Experimental results show that the trained CrackDFANet has strong anti-interference ability, and has better robustness and generalization ability under the interference of light interference, parking line, water stains, plant disturbance, oil stains, and shadow conditions. Furthermore, the CrackDFANet is found to be better than other state-of-the-art algorithms with more accurate detection effect and faster detection speed. Meanwhile, our algorithm model parameters and error rates are significantly reduced. MDPI 2021-04-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8122701/ /pubmed/33919128 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21092902 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Automatic Pixel-Level Pavement Crack Recognition Using a Deep Feature Aggregation Segmentation Network with a scSE Attention Mechanism Module
title Automatic Pixel-Level Pavement Crack Recognition Using a Deep Feature Aggregation Segmentation Network with a scSE Attention Mechanism Module
title_full Automatic Pixel-Level Pavement Crack Recognition Using a Deep Feature Aggregation Segmentation Network with a scSE Attention Mechanism Module
title_fullStr Automatic Pixel-Level Pavement Crack Recognition Using a Deep Feature Aggregation Segmentation Network with a scSE Attention Mechanism Module
title_full_unstemmed Automatic Pixel-Level Pavement Crack Recognition Using a Deep Feature Aggregation Segmentation Network with a scSE Attention Mechanism Module
title_short Automatic Pixel-Level Pavement Crack Recognition Using a Deep Feature Aggregation Segmentation Network with a scSE Attention Mechanism Module
title_sort automatic pixel-level pavement crack recognition using a deep feature aggregation segmentation network with a scse attention mechanism module
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8122701/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33919128
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21092902
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