Segmentation of pipe images for crack detection in buried sewers

Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 395-410

  Iyer, Shivprakash ^a   Sinha, Sunil K ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; CRACKS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; SANITARY SEWERS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

BURIED PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE; CAMERA SCANNED IMAGE; CURVATURE EVALUATION; INTERPRETATION SYSTEMS; ROBUST DATA ANALYSIS;

PIPELINES;

CONDITION MONITORING; CRACKS; DATA REDUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PIPELINES; SANITARY SEWERS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

BURIED STRUCTURE; CRACK; DETECTION METHOD; HYDROTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PIPELINE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 33646745121     PISSN: 10939687     EISSN: 14678667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8667.2006.00445.x     Document Type: Article

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