Pavement crack identification method based on IOtsu-Dd algorithm

Rapid identification of highway cracks is greatly significant for highway maintenance. In recent years, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to collect images of road cracks for automatic recognition has become a topic of concern for many researchers. Based on this, to raise the accuracy and efficiency of crack recognition, a road crack recognition method based on unmanned aerial vehicle images and improved Otsu method is developed. Firstly, certain processing techniques are applied to the images captured by the unmanned aerial vehicle, such as grayscale and equalization, to reduce computational complexity and facilitate subsequent identification of image cracks. Subsequently, to improve recognition accuracy, the image is segmented and the Otsu method is introduced and improved. Finally, a pavement crack recognition model is constructed using damage density, achieving the extraction and recognition of pavement crack features from images. The experiment findings show that the raised recognition model has an average accuracy of 98.2%, a recall rate of 0.75, and an F1 score of 0.85 in crack recognition of unmanned aerial vehicle captured images. This denotes that the raised recognition model has strong effectiveness and high recognition accuracy, and the method can effectively recognize road cracks based on unmanned aerial vehicle images.

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2025-05-14
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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0322662
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Pavement crack identification method based on IOtsu-Dd algorithm

Qiquan Xiong, Lin Wang, Yang Yang
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Pavement crack identification method based on IOtsu-Dd algorithm

Qiquan Xiong, Lin Wang, Yang Yang
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Abstract

Rapid identification of highway cracks is greatly significant for highway maintenance. In recent years, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to collect images of road cracks for automatic recognition has become a topic of concern for many researchers. Based on this, to raise the accuracy and efficiency of crack recognition, a road crack recognition method based on unmanned aerial vehicle images and improved Otsu method is developed. Firstly, certain processing techniques are applied to the images captured by the unmanned aerial vehicle, such as grayscale and equalization, to reduce computational complexity and facilitate subsequent identification of image cracks. Subsequently, to improve recognition accuracy, the image is segmented and the Otsu method is introduced and improved. Finally, a pavement crack recognition model is constructed using damage density, achieving the extraction and recognition of pavement crack features from images. The experiment findings show that the raised recognition model has an average accuracy of 98.2%, a recall rate of 0.75, and an F1 score of 0.85 in crack recognition of unmanned aerial vehicle captured images. This denotes that the raised recognition model has strong effectiveness and high recognition accuracy, and the method can effectively recognize road cracks based on unmanned aerial vehicle images.

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Guangxi Transportation Research Institute (CN), Detection Limit (United States) (US)
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