Signal and Information Processing

Tensor Voting Based Pavement Crack Extraction

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  • 1. Department of Municipal Engineering, Zhejiang University of Water Resources and Electric Power, Hangzhou 310018, China;
    2. College of Geography & Remote Sensing, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China;
    3. Changjiang Spatial Information Technology Engineering Company, Wuhan 430079, China;
    4. College of Computer Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huai'an 223003, Jiangsu Province, China

Received date: 2015-04-09

  Revised date: 2015-08-27

  Online published: 2015-09-30

Abstract

This paper proposes a multi-scale tensor voting framework that applies tensor voting to mobile laser scanning data to extract pavement cracks. Trajectory data are used to extract road curbs from profiles along the travelling line to separate road points from non-road points. The extracted road points are interpolated into road feature images. Thus curvilinear cracks are enhanced and extracted with a multi-scale tensor voting framework. Experiments on mobile laser scanning data and road image data were carried out. The results show that the method is robust to noise in both road images and feature images, and can achieve good performance in pavement crack extraction.

Cite this article

LI Ai-xia, GUAN Hai-yan, ZHONG Liang, YU Yong-tao . Tensor Voting Based Pavement Crack Extraction[J]. Journal of Applied Sciences, 2015 , 33(5) : 541 -549 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2015.05.008

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