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Journal of Graphics ›› 2022, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (4): 721-728.DOI: 10.11996/JG.j.2095-302X.2022040721

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Crack visualization management method based on computer vision and BIM

  

  1. 1. Sino-Australia Joint Research Center in BIM and Smart Construction, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Guangdong 518060, China;
    2. College of Civil and Transportation Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Guangdong 518060, China;
    3. School of Civil and Resource Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China
  • Online:2022-08-31 Published:2022-08-15
  • Contact: XU Zhen (1986), professor, Ph.D. His main research interest covers urban digital disaster prevention
  • About author:XIONG Chen (1990), associate professor, Ph.D. His main research interests cover earthquake engineering and urban disaster reduction
  • Supported by:
    Guangdong University Student Science and Technology Innovation Cultivation Special Fund Project (pdjh2020b0505); National Key
    R&D Program of China (2021YFF0501002); Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation (8212011)

Abstract:

Continuous monitoring and management of structural surface cracks is important to structural safety. To achieve automated structural crack identification and management, a series of crack identification, vectorization, and visualization methods were proposed based on computer vision and building information modeling (BIM). Firstly, the raster images of crack skeleton were extracted from structure surface images based on a deep learning method. Secondly, an automated vectorization method for the raster images of crack skeleton was proposed to obtain the coordinates of key points of cracks. Finally, the automated modeling and visualization of cracks were realized using Dynamo programming on BIM platform. The proposed crack vectorization method can obtain the topological information of cracks and significantly reduce the amount of stored data, thus facilitating crack visualization. In addition, through the collision analysis of BIM components, to which components the cracks belonged to can be easily identified. The component information and the crack width information can be stored as attribute data of each crack. The proposed method can attain an automated crack vectorization and visualization, providing a useful reference for large-scale crack identification and management.

Key words: crack identification, building information modeling, crack visualization, vectorization, computer vision

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