Rapid entropy-based detection and properties measurement of concrete spalling with machine vision for post-earthquake safety assessments

Advanced Engineering Informatics

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 846-858

  German, Stephanie ^a   Brilakis, Ioannis ^b   Desroches, Reginald ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image processing; Machine vision; Post earthquake reconnaissance; Property retrieval; Reinforced concrete; Spalling detection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING; CONCRETE SPALLING; DAMAGE PROPERTIES; ENTROPY-BASED; IMAGE DATA; IMAGE PROCESSING - METHODS; LONGITUDINAL REINFORCEMENT; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT; POST-EARTHQUAKE RECONNAISSANCE; PROPERTY RETRIEVAL; RC COLUMN; REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMN; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; STRUCTURAL ASSESSMENTS; STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS; STRUCTURAL ENGINEER; THRESHOLDING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER VISION; CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION; EARTHQUAKES; ENTROPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; REINFORCED CONCRETE; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

SPALLING;

EID: 84867902051     PISSN: 14740346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aei.2012.06.005     Document Type: Conference Paper

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