Detecting cracks during structural health monitoring is crucial for ensuring infrastructure safety and longevity. Using drones to obtain crack images and automate processing can improve the efficiency of crack detection. To address the challenges posed by the limited computing resources of edge devices in practical applications, we propose CrackScopeNet, a lightweight segmentation network model that simultaneously considers local and global crack features while being suitable for deployment on drone platforms with limited computational power and memory. This novel network features a multi-scale branch to improve sensitivity to cracks of varying sizes without substantial computational overhead along with a stripe-wise context attention mechanism to enhance the capture of long-range contextual information while mitigating the interference from complex backgrounds. Experimental results on the CrackSeg9k dataset demonstrate that our method leads to a significant improvement in prediction performance, with the highest mean intersection over union (mIoU) scores reaching 82.12%, and maintains a lightweight architecture with only 1.05 M parameters and 1.58 G floating point operations (FLOPs). In addition, the proposed model excels in inference speed on edge devices without a GPU thanks to its low FLOPs. CrackScopeNet contributes to the development of efficient and effective crack segmentation networks suitable for practical structural health monitoring applications using drone platforms.


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    Title :

    CrackScopeNet: A Lightweight Neural Network for Rapid Crack Detection on Resource-Constrained Drone Platforms


    Contributors:
    Tao Zhang (author) / Liwei Qin (author) / Quan Zou (author) / Liwen Zhang (author) / Rongyi Wang (author) / Heng Zhang (author)


    Publication date :

    2024




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown





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