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Paper: lc3-2017-165
| Paper title: | Comparing Feature Matching Algorithms for Measuring In-Plane Strains on Civil Infrastructures |
| Authors: | Youyi Feng, Fei Dai and Jiaqing Zhao |
| Summary: | Maintaining structural integrity of civil infrastructures such as bridges and tunnels is always an essential task for civil engineers. Collapse or damage of these infrastructures may lead to a tremendous amount of painful injuries, casualties, and societal losses. This paper reported the work on evaluating optimal feature matching algorithms for development of visual sensing-based techniques to measure in-plane deflections and strains in order to facilitate monitoring and evaluation of integrity of civil infrastructures in a cost-effective way. A series of experiments were conducted in which three algorithms Digital Image Correlation (DIC), Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT) and Speeded-Up Robust Features (SURF) were compared. The result indicated that DIC has superiority among the three algorithms. To further assess the accuracy of DIC, a high-speed industrial camera was then used to capture a series of continuous image frames of deformed real-world scenarios. The DIC algorithm was adopted in the feature detection and tracking process, and in-plane displacement and strains were calculated and compared with the ground truth. The result indicated that the DIC-based method can achieve highly accurate performance in measuring in-plane deflections and strains for civil infrastructures and holds potential to the development of visual sensing enabled structural health monitoring. |
| Type: | regular paper |
| Year of publication: | 2017 |
| Keywords: | Image-Based Methods, Structural Health Monitoring, Visual Sensing, Non-Contact Measurements, Comparative Study |
| Series: | jc3:2017 |
| Download paper: | /pdfs/LC3_2017_paper_165.pdf |
| Citation: | Youyi Feng, Fei Dai and Jiaqing Zhao (2017). Comparing Feature Matching Algorithms for Measuring In-Plane Strains on Civil Infrastructures. Lean and Computing in Construction Congress (LC3): Volume I Ð Proceedings of the Joint Conference on Computing in Construction (JC3), July 4-7, 2017, Heraklion, Greece, pp. 783-791, http://itc.scix.net/paper/lc3-2017-165 |
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