A binary image enhancement and recognition approach in crack detection using exploring agents

Wei Wei; Mingli Ding; Qi Wang

doi:10.1117/12.570604

8 February 2005 A binary image enhancement and recognition approach in crack detection using exploring agents

Wei Wei, Mingli Ding, Qi Wang

Proceedings Volume 5637, Electronic Imaging and Multimedia Technology IV; (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.570604
Event: Photonics Asia, 2004, Beijing, China

Abstract

This paper proposes a method using exploring agent for the noise elimination and crack recognition in binary images which originate from the objective gray level images. A mean filtering method is introduced to correct non-uniform background illumination and obtain the dynamic thresholds, which are used to convert the original 255 scales gray level image into binary images. The pavement crack figures in the binary image have been contaminated by randomly distributed noisy dots, and in most cases, the crack shape and orientation can't be represented by specific functions. The exploring agent method using sense-compute-act loop, presented in this paper, can be employed to determine the crack and eliminate the random noise. The exploring agent and the Least Square Fit (LSF) method separately have unique characteristics in recognizing the crack intersection and orientation, and automatically running along the crack. The traces of the exploring agent are the skeleton of the pavement crack, and the number of steps can be used to calculate the length of the crack. The sense, compute, and act ability of the exploring agent iterate to guarantee the effect in processing randomly distributed features of image during the actual processing.

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Wei Wei, Mingli Ding, and Qi Wang "A binary image enhancement and recognition approach in crack detection using exploring agents", Proc. SPIE 5637, Electronic Imaging and Multimedia Technology IV, (8 February 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.570604

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