Migration Learning-Based Bridge Structure Damage Detection Algorithm

Abstract

Most of the bridge structures in the world are built of reinforced concrete. With the growth of service life and the increase of urban traffic and other factors, most bridges put into service have more or less damage. Traditional bridge damage detection methods include the manual inspection method and bridge inspection vehicle method, which have many shortcomings. Moreover, the detection of cracks in bridges is critical to the safety of transportation due to the extremely large number of bridges built in the road networks across the world. To this end, this paper uses the most widely used CNN in deep learning to identify and classify crack images and proposes a migration learning technique to solve the problem of the large amount of training data required for training CNN. The data augmentation and sliding window techniques are introduced to divide the collected crack data into training establish and test set. The experiments show that the method in this paper can classify the crack images better, extract and locate the cracks of bridge crack units, and finally extract the crack coordinates of boxing. Compared with the customary image recognition methods, the method used in this paper is easier to operate in practical engineering, and the accuracy of the obtained results is higher.