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Computer-Vision-Based Real-Time Rock Fragment Recognition During Tunnel Excavation

  • Yang Xu*
  • , Hui Li
  • , Weidong Qiao
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • School of Civil Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology

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Abstract

Timely recognition of rock fragments can help predict the deformation of the tunnel during tunnel boring machine (TBM) tunneling. Traditional manual inspection highly relies on subjective judgments of operators and conducting sieving tests is not real-time. Rock fragments in the real-world are often observed against a dark background, distributed with high size diversity, complicatedly distributed, and blocked by each other. This study proposes a computer vision-based method for on-site rock fragments recognition. The proposed method consists of an image preprocessing module, an instance segmentation model, and a post-processing module. The results show that the pixel-level rock fragment recognition takes 0.15s for processing a 512×512 patch on average and 88% of rock fragments can be recognized. The predicted size distributions of the major and minor axis lengths of the rock fragments fit well with the ground-truth ones statistically.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIABSE Congress Nanjing 2022 - Bridges and Structures
Subtitle of host publicationConnection, Integration and Harmonisation, Report
PublisherInternational Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE)
Pages1240-1247
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9783857481840
StatePublished - 2022
EventIABSE Congress Nanjing 2022 - Bridges and Structures: Connection, Integration and Harmonisation - Nanjing, China
Duration: 21 Sep 202223 Sep 2022

Publication series

NameIABSE Congress Nanjing 2022 - Bridges and Structures: Connection, Integration and Harmonisation, Report

Conference

ConferenceIABSE Congress Nanjing 2022 - Bridges and Structures: Connection, Integration and Harmonisation
Country/TerritoryChina
CityNanjing
Period21/09/2223/09/22

Keywords

  • computer vision
  • instance segmentation
  • rock fragment recognition
  • tunnel boring machine tunnelling

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