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Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management (디지털산업정보학회)
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Multi-scale crack detection using decomposition and composition

해체와 구성을 이용한 다중 스케일 균열 검출

  • 김영로 (명지전문대학 컴퓨터정보과) ;
  • 정지영 (명지전문대학 컴퓨터정보과)
  • Published : 2013.09.30
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a multi-scale crack detection method. This method uses decomposition, composition, and shape properties. It is based on morphology algorithm, crack features. 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 decomposition and composition methods. We use a decimation method for decomposition. After decomposition and morphology operation, we get edge images given by binary values. 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.

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