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Area of Science:

  • Computer Vision
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Materials Science

Background:

  • Crack detection is challenging due to slender targets, blurred boundaries, and complex backgrounds.
  • Existing target-detection models struggle with these specific crack characteristics.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an improved target-detection model for enhanced crack detection.
  • To address limitations in feature extraction and expression for crack identification.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed an information theory-based target-detection model.
  • Introduced a multi-scale information gain mechanism.
  • Implemented a global-local feature coupling strategy.

Main Results:

  • Achieved higher mean Average Precision (mAP) scores compared to the baseline RT-DETR model.
  • On a single-crack dataset, mAP@50 increased by 1.6% and mAP@50-95 by 0.8%.
  • On a multi-crack dataset, mAP@50 improved by 1.2% and mAP@50-95 by 1.0%.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed model demonstrates improved robustness and detection accuracy in complex scenarios.
  • The method offers new technical support for advanced crack detection research.
  • This work provides a novel approach to overcoming challenges in identifying cracks.