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Application of image analysis to the identification and rating of road surface distress
Rasse, Catherine; Leemans, Vincent; Destain, Marie-France et al.
2002In Correia; Branco (Eds.) Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields
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Keywords :
roads; image analysis; cracks; background correction
Abstract :
[en] Numerical image analysis is used to detect narrow cracks on bituminous pavement. This problem is complicated because of the variable road aspect, which depends on coarseness textures, changing ambient lighting, presence of humidity and because of the poor contrast of the cracks with regard to road texture. The paper presents algorithms suited to detect random cracks edges in a noisy environment in three stages. The pre-treatment consisted mainly in applying a background correction to eliminate the heterogeneity due to humidity, shade, ... In the treatment, a threshold value was applied to segment the 'object' from the rest of the image. As these objects may be cracks, part cracks, or some noise erroneously segmented as defect, a post-treatment was applied to appreciate more accurately if a pixel belonged to an object or to the background. It aimed also to assembly parts of the cracks in continuous structure. When compared to visual detection, efficient detection of cracks is obtained. Further work needs to be done to get an automatic detection of the cracks whatever the road texture.
Disciplines :
Civil engineering
Author, co-author :
Rasse, Catherine
Leemans, Vincent ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech > Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Destain, Marie-France ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech > Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Verbrugge, Jean-Claude ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech > Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech
Language :
English
Title :
Application of image analysis to the identification and rating of road surface distress
Publication date :
2002
Event name :
Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields, 2002
Event place :
Lisbon, Portugal
Event date :
June 24-26, 2002
Audience :
International
Main work title :
Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields
Editor :
Correia
Branco
Pages :
61-68
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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