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Area of Science:

  • Geological Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Vision

Background:

  • Rock discontinuities critically influence rock mass behavior, impacting slope stability, underground excavation, and blasting.
  • Traditional point cloud analysis methods struggle with fine-scale feature representation and parameter sensitivity.
  • Accurate discontinuity characterization is essential for reliable geotechnical engineering applications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce RL-JointNet, an end-to-end deep learning model for robust discontinuity segmentation in rock masses.
  • To enhance local feature extraction for improved spatial relationship and neighborhood geometry representation.
  • To provide a reliable automated approach for detailed characterization of large-scale rock masses.

Main Methods:

  • Developed RL-JointNet, an end-to-end deep learning framework for discontinuity segmentation.
  • Implemented an enhanced local feature extraction module with relative position encoding and multi-path feature fusion.
  • Validated the model on high-resolution point cloud datasets from two rock slopes.

Main Results:

  • RL-JointNet achieved high performance metrics: Global Accuracy (GA) up to 98.7% and mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 98.1%.
  • Individual discontinuity class recognition accuracy consistently exceeded 95%.
  • Hyperparameter sensitivity analysis demonstrated RL-JointNet's superior robustness compared to conventional models.

Conclusions:

  • RL-JointNet offers a reliable and robust solution for automated rock discontinuity analysis.
  • The model significantly improves the characterization of complex, large-scale rock masses.
  • Enhanced local feature extraction is key to the model's improved performance and stability.