A Real-Time Bridge Crack Detection Method Based on an Improved Inception-Resnet-v2 Structure

• Main Authors: Jinkang Wang, Xiaohui He, Shao Faming, Guanlin Lu, Hu Cong, Qunyan Jiang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 2021-01-01
• Series: IEEE Access
• Subjects: Bridge crack detection; inception-resnet-v2; multiscale feature fusion; GKA
• Online Access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9466842/

Bridge crack detection is essential to ensure bridge safety. The introduction of deep learning technology has made it possible to detect bridge cracks automatically and accurately. In this study, the Inception-Resnet-v2 algorithm was systematically improved and applied to the real-time detection of bridge cracks. We propose an end-to-end bridge crack detection model based on a convolutional neural network. This model combines the advantages of Inception convolution and residual networks, broadening the network width and alleviating the training problem of the deep network. The calculation speed is improved while still ensuring accuracy. Multi-scale feature fusion enables the network to extract contextual information of different scales, which improves the accuracy of crack recognition. The GKA (K-means clustering method based on a genetic algorithm) realizes the accurate segmentation of the target area, greatly enhances the clustering effect, and effectively improves the detection speed. In this model, large fracture datasets are used for training and testing without pre-training. The experimental results show that the performance of this method was improved in all aspects: accuracy, 99.24%; recall, 99.03%; F-measure, 98.79%; and FPS(Frames Per Second), 196.