• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.49 no.2
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• pp.38-43
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• 2012

It is necessary to measure cracks on concrete slab surface accurately in concrete structure maintenance for the stability of the structure. However, in real world, the process is done by time consuming and ineffective manual inspection. Although there have been some studies to provide computerized inspection methods, they are vulnerable to rugged surface or noise due to the influence of the light or environmental reasons. In this paper, we propose a new method that extracts not only undistorted cracks but minute cracks that were often regarded as noise. We extract candidate crack areas by applying fuzzy method with R, G, and B channel values of concrete slab structure. Then further refinement processes are performed with SOM algorithm and density based cutoff to remove noise. Experiment verifies that the proposed method is sufficiently useful in various crack images.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.423-426
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• 2019

본 논문은 진공을 이용한 흡착방식과 바퀴형 이동방식을 사용하는 벽면이동로봇의 구성 및 벽면 균열 검출 알고리즘에 관한 연구로써, 카메라와 함께 임베디드 시스템을 구성하였으며 Convolutional Neural Network를 이용한 머신러닝 알고리즘을 통해 균열을 감지하고 검출된 균열의 영상과 위치정보를 서버(관리자 장치)로 전송하는 통신 환경을 구축하였다. 균열 검출 성능을 검증하기 위해 균열 데이터를 이용하여 실험하고 결과를 제시하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.9
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• pp.194-200
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a multi-scale crack detection method using scaling. It is based on morphology algorithm, crack features, and scaling. We use a morphology operator which extracts patterns of crack. It segments cracks and background using opening and closing operations. Morphology based segmentation is better than existing integration methods using subtraction in detecting a crack it has small width. However, morphology methods using only one structure element could detect only fixed width crack. Thus, we use a scaling method. We use bilinear interpolation for scaling. Our method calculates values of properties such as the number of pixels and the maximum length of the segmented region. We decide whether the segmented region belongs to cracks according to those data. Experimental results show that our proposed multi-scale crack detection method has better results than those of existing detection methods.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.23-29
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• 2019

Conventional crack detection methods have a problem of consuming a lot of labor, time and cost. To solve these problems, an automatic detection system is needed to detect cracks in images obtained by using vehicles or UAVs(unmanned aerial vehicles). In this paper, we have studied road crack detection with unmanned aerial photographs. Aerial images are generated through preprocessing and labeling to generate morphological information data sets of cracks. The generated data set was applied to the mask R-CNN model to obtain a new model in which various crack information was learned. Experimental results show that the cracks in the proposed aerial image were detected with an accuracy of 73.5% and some of them were predicted in a certain type of crack region.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.365-372
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 콘크리트 표면 균열 영상에서 균열의 특징들을 추출하기 위하여, 영상 처리 기법을 개선하여 균열의 특징(길이,폭,방향)들을 자동으로 추출 및 분석 할 수 있는 기법을 제안한다. 기존의 영상 처리 기법에서는 비교적 잡음이 적고 균열이 적은 영상을 대상으로 균열을 추출하는 알고리즘을 제시하였기 때문에 많은 잡음과 균열을 가지는 영상에 대해서는 균열 검출 성능이 떨어지는 경향이 있다. 따라서, 본 논문에서 제안한 균열 추출 및 분석 알고리즘은 컬러 영상에서 Histogram Stretching 기법을 적용하여 영상의 콘트라스트 특성을 향상 시킨 후, Robert 연산자를 다시 적용해 균열을 강조하고, 강조된 균열을 Multiple 연산을 이용하여 밝기 차이를 크게 한 후, 개선된 적응 이진화기법을 이용하여 균열의 후보 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 균열 후보 영역을 형상 분석과 위치 및 방향분석을 이용하여 잡음을 제거하고 균열의 특징을 분석한다. 실제 콘크리트 표면 균열 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 균열 검출 성능이 기존의 방법보다 본 논문에서 제안한 방법이 더 우수함을 확인하였다.

• Composites Research
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.9-14
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• 2009

This paper suggested the electric potential method with a bridge circuit concept for the detection of the location and crack growth of carbon fiber reinforced composites to reduce the measurement numbers. 2 pairs of electrodes were fabricated on the center cracked thin composite plates, and potential changes at one pair of adjacent electrodes were observed while external voltage input was applied to the other pair of adjacent electrodes. The effects of the size and interval of electrodes, location and propagating direction of center cracks were investigated by experiments and finite element analyses. Detectable crack size was influenced by the electrode interval rather than the electrode size, and crack detection was enhanced as the size and interval of electrodes were smaller. Besides, output potential changes were larger as the crack grew and was nearer the voltage input electrodes.

• Journal of the Korean Recycled Construction Resources Institute
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.593-599
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• 2022

In this study, a crack monitoring system capable of detecting cracks based on image processing techniques was developed to effectively check cracks, which are the main damage of concrete structures, and a program capable of imaging and analyzing cracks was developed using machine vision. This system provides objective and quantitative data by replacing the appearance inspection that checks cracks with the naked eye. The verification of the development system was applied to the construction site of a self-healing concrete water tank to monitor the crack and the amount of change in the crack width according to age. In the case of crack width detected by image analysis, the difference from the measured value using a digital microscope was up to 0.036 mm, and the crack healing effect of self-healing concrete could be confirmed through the reduction of crack width.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2019.01a
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• pp.303-304
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 자연재해나 노후화로 인해 많은 건물의 외벽에 균열(Crack)이 생기고 있고, YOLO 딥러닝 기법을 이용하여 텐서플로우(Tensorflow)기반 균열 데이터의 학습 과정을 거쳐 가중치 파일을 획득하고, 이를 기반으로 효율적으로 건물 관리를 할 수 있는 드론(Drone)에 장착된 카메라를 이용한 실시간 영상으로 건물 외벽 균열을 촬영하고 균열을 감지하여 사용자 모니터에 감지된 균열을 경계 상자를 통해 검출하고, 검출 사진과 위치를 기록하도록 시스템을 개발하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.1034-1037
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• 2019

본 논문은 진공을 이용한 흡착방식과 바퀴형 이동방식을 사용하는 벽면 이동로봇의 구성과 로봇 내부에서의 균열검출 및 처리 프로세스에 관한 연구이다. 임베디드 시스템에서 기계학습을 이용한 균열검출을 구현하기 위해 YOLO v3를 수정하여 구동하였으며, 검출된 균열의 영상을 저장하고 위치 정보를 추정하였다. 또한, 균열 정보를 수집하기 위해 고정 IP를 갖는 서버를 구축하고 각 기기 간의 효율적인 통신 네트워크를 구성하였다. 본 기술은 균열검출 작업뿐만 아니라 보수작업에도 활용될 수 있어, 대형 구조물과 건축물 등의 안전진단뿐만 아니라 안전성 향상에 이바지할 수 있을 것으로 예상한다.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.17 no.3 s.87
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• pp.361-368
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• 2005

This study proposes an algorithm for detection and analysis of cracks in digital image of concrete surface to automate the measurement process of crack characteristics such as width, length, and orientation based on image processing technique. The special features of algorithm are as follows: (1) application of morphology technique for shading correction, (2) improvement of detection performance based on enhanced binarization and shape analysis, (3) suggestion of calculation algorithms for width, length, and orientation. A MATLAB code was developed for the proposed algorithm, and then test was performed on crack images taken with digital camera to examine validity of the algorithm. Within the limited test in the present study, the proposed algorithm was revealed as accurately detecting and analyzing the cracks when compared to results obtained by a human and classical method.