CrackTree: Automatic crack detection from pavement images

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 227-238

  Zou, Qin ^a,b,c   Cao, Yu ^c   Li, Qingquan ^a,b   Mao, Qingzhou ^a,b   Wang, Song ^c  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Crack detection; Edge detection; Edge grouping; Shadow removal; Tensor voting

Indexed keywords

EDGE GROUPING; GRAPH MODEL; INTENSITY INHOMOGENEITY; LOW CONTRAST; MINIMUM SPANNING TREES; PAVEMENT CRACKS; PROBABILITY MAPS; ROAD CONDITION; ROAD MAINTENANCE; SHADOW REMOVAL; TENSOR VOTING;

CRACKS; EDGE DETECTION; PAVEMENTS; TENSORS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

CRACK DETECTION;

EID: 83455225556     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2011.11.004     Document Type: Article

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