Damage Detection for Port Infrastructure by Means of Machine-Learning-Algorithms

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Original languageEnglish
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 2020
EventFIG Working Week 2020: Smart surveyors for land and water management - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Duration: 10 May 202014 May 2020

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ConferenceFIG Working Week 2020
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityAmsterdam
Period10 May 202014 May 2020

Abstract

The ageing infrastructure in ports requires regular inspection. This inspection is currently carried out manually by divers who sense by hand the entire underwater infrastructure. This process is cost-intensive as it involves a lot of time and human resources. To overcome these difficulties, we propose to scan the above and underwater port structure with a Multi-Sensor-System, and -by a fully automated process-to classify the obtained point cloud into damaged and undamaged zones. We make use of simulated training data to test our approach since not enough training data with corresponding class labels are available yet. To that aim, we build a rasterised heightfield of a point cloud of a sheet pile wall by cutting it into verticall slices. The distance from each slice to the corresponding line generates the heightfield. This latter is propagated through a convolutional neural network which detects anomalies. We use the VGG19 Deep Neural Network model pretrained on natural images. This neural network has 19 layers and it is often used for image recognition tasks. We showed that our approach can achieve a fully automated, reproducible, quality-controlled damage detection which is able to analyse the whole structure instead of the sample wise manual method with divers. The mean true positive rate is 0.98 which means that we detected 98 % of the damages in the simulated environment.

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Damage Detection for Port Infrastructure by Means of Machine-Learning-Algorithms. / Hake, Frederic; Hermann, Matthias; Alkhatib, Hamza et al.
2020. Paper presented at FIG Working Week 2020, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Hake F, Hermann M, Alkhatib H, Hesse C, Holste K, Umlauf G et al.. Damage Detection for Port Infrastructure by Means of Machine-Learning-Algorithms. 2020. Paper presented at FIG Working Week 2020, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Epub 2020.
Hake, Frederic ; Hermann, Matthias ; Alkhatib, Hamza et al. / Damage Detection for Port Infrastructure by Means of Machine-Learning-Algorithms. Paper presented at FIG Working Week 2020, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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