Towards Automated Post-Earthquake Inspections with Deep Learning-based Condition-Aware Models

09/24/2018
by   Vedhus Hoskere, et al.
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In the aftermath of an earthquake, rapid structural inspections are required to get citizens back in to their homes and offices in a safe and timely manner. These inspections gfare typically conducted by municipal authorities through structural engineer volunteers. As manual inspec-tions can be time consuming, laborious and dangerous, research has been underway to develop methods to help speed up and increase the automation of the entire process. Researchers typi-cally envisage the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for data acquisition and computer vision for data processing to extract actionable information. In this work we propose a new framework to generate vision-based condition-aware models that can serve as the basis for speeding up or automating higher level inspection decisions. The condition-aware models are generated by projecting the inference of trained deep-learning models on a set of images of a structure onto a 3D mesh model generated through multi-view stereo from the same image set. Deep fully convolutional residual networks are used for semantic segmentation of images of buildings to provide (i) damage information such as cracks and spalling (ii) contextual infor-mation such as the presence of a building and visually identifiable components like windows and doors. The proposed methodology was implemented on a damaged building that was sur-veyed by the authors after the Central Mexico Earthquake in September 2017 and qualitative-ly evaluated. Results demonstrate the promise of the proposed method towards the ultimate goal of rapid and automated post-earthquake inspections.

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