Deep learning applications for point clouds in the construction industry

H Yue, Q Wang, H Zhao, N Zeng, Y Tan - Automation in Construction, 2024 - Elsevier
Deep learning (DL) on point clouds holds significant potential in the construction industry,
yet no comprehensive review has thoroughly summarized its applications and shortcomings …

Road surface defect detection—from image-based to non-image-based: a survey

J Yu, J Jiang, S Fichera, P Paoletti… - IEEE transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ensuring traffic safety is crucial, which necessitates the detection and prevention of road
surface defects. As a result, there has been a growing interest in the literature on the subject …

Quality assurance for building components through point cloud segmentation leveraging synthetic data

HX Zhang, Z Zou - Automation in Construction, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) play a crucial role in the building
project life cycle, especially during construction, as discrepancies between as-built …

[HTML][HTML] Dynamic graph CNN based semantic segmentation of concrete defects and as-inspected modeling

F Bahreini, A Hammad - Automation in Construction, 2024 - Elsevier
Obtaining accurate information of defective areas of infrastructures helps to perform repair
actions more efficiently. Recently, LiDAR scanners have been used for the inspection of …

[HTML][HTML] Advancements in point cloud-based 3D defect classification and segmentation for industrial systems: A comprehensive survey

A Rani, D Ortiz-Arroyo, P Durdevic - Information Fusion, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, 3D point clouds (PCs) have gained significant attention due to their diverse
applications across various fields, such as computer vision (CV), condition monitoring (CM) …

Automated geometric reconstruction and cable force inference for cable-net structures using 3D point clouds

S Lin, L Duan, J Liu, X **ao, J Miao, J Zhao - Automation in Construction, 2024 - Elsevier
Laser scanning provides an efficient solution to digital twin construction in civil engineering.
The complexity and redundancy of large-scale point clouds substantially prolong the labor …

Deep learning-based three-dimensional crack damage detection method using point clouds without color information

Y Lou, S Meng, Y Zhou - Structural Health Monitoring, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Automated high-precision crack detection on building structures under poor lighting
conditions poses a significant challenge for traditional image-based methods. Overcoming …

Bridge substructure damage morphology identification based on the underwater sonar point cloud data

S Zhang, Y Zhu, W **ong, CS Cai, J Zhang - Advanced Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Bridge underwater foundation inspection is always a prominent and challenging issue due
to an unknown and unsafe underwater environment. Effective identification of bridge …

[HTML][HTML] Automated masonry spalling severity segmentation in historic railway tunnels using deep learning and a block face plane fitting approach

J Smith, C Paraskevopoulou, AG Cohn… - … and Underground Space …, 2024 - Elsevier
Masonry lined tunnel condition assessment is a predominantly manual process. It consists
primarily of a visual inspection followed by a lengthy and subjective manual defect labelling …

Leveraging local neighborhood features in 3D unstructured point cloud data for geometry-based automated damage delineation

M Areti, Z Hasnain - Automation in Construction, 2024 - Elsevier
In a post-earthquake environment, manual inspection is resource-intensive and subjective.
This article presents a real-world damage assessment study of the Improved Iterative Bi …