Decay detection in historic buildings through image-based deep learning

Nowadays, built heritage condition assessment is realized through on-site or photo-aided visual inspections, reporting pathologies manually on drawings, photographs, notes. The knowledge of the state of conservation goes through subjective and time or cost consuming procedures. This is even relevant...

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Main Authors: Silvana Bruno, Rosella Alessia Galantucci, Antonella Musicco
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Published: Universitat Politècnica de València 2023-04-01
Series:Vitruvio: International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability
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Online Access:http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/vitruvio/article/view/18662
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description Nowadays, built heritage condition assessment is realized through on-site or photo-aided visual inspections, reporting pathologies manually on drawings, photographs, notes. The knowledge of the state of conservation goes through subjective and time or cost consuming procedures. This is even relevant for a historic building characterized by geometrical and morphological complexity and huge extension, or at risk of collapse. In this context, advancements in the field of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence provide an opportunity to address these criticalities. The proposed methodology is based on a Mask R-CNN model, for the detection of decay morphologies on built heritages, and, particularly on historic buildings. The experimentation has been carried out and validated on a highly heterogeneous dataset of images of historic buildings, representative of the regional Architectural Heritage, such as: castles, monasteries, noble buildings, rural buildings. The outcomes highlighted the significance of this remote, non-invasive inspection technique, in support of the technicians in the preliminary knowledge of the building state of conservation, and, most of all, in the decay mapping of some particular classes of alterations (moist area, biological colonization).
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spelling doaj-art-48a8cac8473e4866a98180e2414512f32025-01-02T05:48:39ZengUniversitat Politècnica de ValènciaVitruvio: International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability2444-90912023-04-01861710.4995/vitruvioijats.2023.1866217852Decay detection in historic buildings through image-based deep learningSilvana Bruno0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7633-9989Rosella Alessia Galantucci1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2742-1492Antonella Musicco2https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9130-8753Polytechnic University of BariPolytechnic University of BariPolytechnic University of BariNowadays, built heritage condition assessment is realized through on-site or photo-aided visual inspections, reporting pathologies manually on drawings, photographs, notes. The knowledge of the state of conservation goes through subjective and time or cost consuming procedures. This is even relevant for a historic building characterized by geometrical and morphological complexity and huge extension, or at risk of collapse. In this context, advancements in the field of Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence provide an opportunity to address these criticalities. The proposed methodology is based on a Mask R-CNN model, for the detection of decay morphologies on built heritages, and, particularly on historic buildings. The experimentation has been carried out and validated on a highly heterogeneous dataset of images of historic buildings, representative of the regional Architectural Heritage, such as: castles, monasteries, noble buildings, rural buildings. The outcomes highlighted the significance of this remote, non-invasive inspection technique, in support of the technicians in the preliminary knowledge of the building state of conservation, and, most of all, in the decay mapping of some particular classes of alterations (moist area, biological colonization).http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/vitruvio/article/view/18662built heritagehistoric buildingsdecay detectiondeep learningmask r-cnn
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Decay detection in historic buildings through image-based deep learning
Vitruvio: International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability
built heritage
historic buildings
decay detection
deep learning
mask r-cnn
title Decay detection in historic buildings through image-based deep learning
title_full Decay detection in historic buildings through image-based deep learning
title_fullStr Decay detection in historic buildings through image-based deep learning
title_full_unstemmed Decay detection in historic buildings through image-based deep learning
title_short Decay detection in historic buildings through image-based deep learning
title_sort decay detection in historic buildings through image based deep learning
topic built heritage
historic buildings
decay detection
deep learning
mask r-cnn
url http://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/vitruvio/article/view/18662
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