AN ALGORITHM FOR CONCRETE CRACK

EXTRACTION AND IDENTIFICATION

BASED ON MACHINE VISION
GUIDED BY:- Dr.D.REGAN

presented by
M.sandhya yamini
P.lakshmi devi
K.venkata rani
 CONTENTS
 INTRODUCTION
 ABSTRACT
 PROBLEM STATEMENT
 EXISTING SYSTEM
 PROPOSED WORK
 SOFTWARE TOOLS
 PROPOSED SYSTEM
 BLOCK DIAGRAM
 PROBLEMS FACED
 MEASURES TAKEN
 REFERENCES
 Introduction

Firstly, we collect a large number of road surface images of 3

different conditions including transverse crack, longitudinal
crack and turtle crack separately to construct road surface
conditions library.

Secondly, deal the road damaged image with gray, gray

transform and image smoothing. Then, use mathematical
morphology method to deal with crack image and projection to
identify crack category.

Finally, develop the pavement crack recognition software

based Machine Vision
 ABSTRACT
 The proposed algorithm will provide a solutions for the
difficulty of identification and existing in crack processing.

 The first solution entails that it will provide difference

between crack and back ground by using the OTSU
algorithm.

 The second solution is to improve the crack image by

applying crack characterstics using the support vector
machine (svm) for extracting and identification of cracks.
MOTIVATION TOWARDS THE WORK

 Now a days increase of more number of vehicles and

speed driving system accidents are increasing
because of unfavourable road conditions using of low
cost materials used in the construction of roads.
 In order to prevent the accidents this project is very
useful to identified the cracks by using this machine
vision technology.
 LITEATURE SURVEY

 We have searched in internet about how we can

predict the concrete cracks by machine vision
technology.
 This article conducts in depth research on concrete
cracks features as input, enabling better identification
and classification of crack images.
 EXISTING SYSTEM

Pavement crack damage is one of the most common diseases in the

road destruction phenomena[1], the way to detect road conditions
mainly relies on people and instruments at present.

The Earth technology companies in the United States developed a

pavement condition evaluation system (PCES) that uses threshold
segmentation to extract damaged information of the road surface.

Japan's consortium developed a Komatsu system which

implemented the data of various pavement disease detection, such as
rut, cracks and section.
 Disadvantages Of
EXISTING SYSTEM
1.) Not accurate.

2.)Highly complex.

3.) Efficiency is very less.

4.)Poor Performance under noisy conditions.

5.)Requires huge hardware.

6.) High processing time.

7.)Crack or pavement detection is not reliable.

8.)Consumes huge power .

9.) High Operational and maintenance cost.

 Proposed METHOD:

Concrete crack images are often characterized as having low color

saturation, low contrast, and a complex background composition.

Therefore, ideal results cannot be easily obtained with traditional

algorithms, such as threshold segmentation.

The OTSU algorithm, i.e., the maximum interclass variance method,

can separate the image into two classes (background and object)
according to the grayscale feature of the image
 SOFTWARE REQUIRMENTS

 Matlab R2013a
 Image Processing Toolbox
 PROPOSED SYSTEM
 The high frequency domain of the image focuses on the details,
false contour and noise, but the most effective image
information is mainly concentrated in the low frequency
domain.

Global threshold method is a method that chooses a threshold

to divide the whole image into two areas, and the choice of
segmentation threshold is based on the histogram of the image.

These two areas are color-coded, and the typical color is black
and white, color images can also be divided into red, green or
any other color that has quite different hue.
 BLOCK DIAGRAM
Edge
Crack PPre Binarization Morphological
detection
imagerc processing rc analysisrc

Extract crack
Classification Morphological
Resultsrc boundaries and
(SVM)c filling
features

Databasec

Fig(1):- Schematic Block Overview of the proposed system.

 Proposed System
The schematic block overview of the proposed crack recognition
and identification system is shown in fig(1).

The proposed system first creates a data base with all features of
different crack types and patterns .

 The created database is deployed as a reference for classifying the

concrete crack patterns.

Now after deploying the system, during operation the system first
considers the crack image and performs preprocessing operation on
it to enhance its visual clarity and quality.

Next an Edge Detection operation is performed to extract all edge

patterns of the test crack image.
 Proposed system
After extracting the edge and structural features from the test
crack image, all these edge patterns are binarized first to bring them
into two levels.

Next to isolate the unwanted road portions and to highlight the

required crack patterns we perform the morphological erosion and
dilation operations.

After highlighting the crack patterns with morphological filling

operations, we draw rectangular bounding boxes around the crack
and extract them to compare and classify with data base features
through SVM classifier.
 Proposed System

Based on the classification results, the type of the crack, size

of the crack and its impact will be estimated and predicted.

All these crack recognition and classification results will be

displayed on the screen.
 Advantages of the Proposed System
1.) Highly accurate.

2.)Computational complexity is less.

3.) Efficiency is very high.

4.) Better Performance even under noisy conditions.

5.)Consumes less hardware.

6.)Speed of processing is very high.

7.)Crack or pavement detection is robust

8.)Consumes less power .

9.)Low Operational and maintenance cost.

 Problems Faced

During implementation, segmentation and extraction of

crack patterns among all structural features became a bit
difficult.

Morphological filling and marking of crack boundaries

became a bit tedious task.
 Measures Taken

 Segmentation , extraction ,recognition and identification

of crack patterns from all the remaining structures are
performed efficiently with the help of canny edge detector
and morphological operations.

An extreme care was taken to recognize crack boundaries

and to fill them.
INPUT
OUTPUT
OUTPUT
 CONCLUSION
Based on the video image, we develop road crack recognition
software with Matlab.

The experiment result shows: the software can identify cracks

accurately, and classify cracks detailedly according to its
characteristics.
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