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most citedReal-time 3D Reconstruction on Construction Site using Visual SLAM and UAV

34 citations · 103 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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eess.IV2019★ 23 cited

Bridge Deck Delamination Segmentation Based on Aerial Thermography Through Regularized Grayscale Morphological Reconstruction and Gradient Statistics

Chongsheng Cheng, Zhexiong Shang, Zhigang Shen

Environmental and surface texture-induced temperature variation across the bridge deck is a major source of errors in delamination detection through thermography. This type of exte…

eess.IV2019★ 28 cited

Thermographic Laplacian-pyramid filtering to enhance delamination detection in concrete structure

Chongsheng Cheng, Ri Na, Zhigang Shen

Despite decades of efforts using thermography to detect delamination in concrete decks, challenges still exist in removing environmental noise from thermal images. The performance…

eess.IV2019★ 1 cited

Enhancing Bridge Deck Delamination Detection Based on Aerial Thermography Through Grayscale Morphologic Reconstruction: A Case Study

Chongsheng Cheng, Zhexiong Shang, Zhigang Shen

Environmental-induced temperature variations across the bridge deck were one of the major factors that degraded the performance of delamination detection through thermography. The…

eess.IV2019

CNN-Based Deep Architecture for Reinforced Concrete Delamination Segmentation Through Thermography

Chongsheng Cheng, Zhexiong Shang, Zhigang Shen

Delamination assessment of the bridge deck plays a vital role for bridge health monitoring. Thermography as one of the nondestructive technologies for delamination detection has th…

cs.RO2019★ 7 cited

Indoor Testing and Simulation Platform for Close-distance Visual Inspection of Complex Structures using Micro Quadrotor UAV

Zhexiong Shang, Zhigang Shen

In recent years, using drone, also known as unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), in close-distance visual inspection has became an active area in many disciplines. However, many challeng…

cs.RO2019★ 1 cited

Vision-model-based Real-time Localization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Autonomous Structure Inspection under GPS-denied Environment

Zhexiong Shang, Zhigang Shen

UAVs have been widely used in visual inspections of buildings, bridges and other structures. In either outdoor autonomous or semi-autonomous flights missions strong GPS signal is v…

cs.CV2019

A Data Fusion Platform for Supporting Bridge Deck Condition Monitoring by Merging Aerial and Ground Inspection Imagery

Zhexiong Shang, Chongsheng Cheng, Zhigang Shen

UAVs showed great efficiency on scanning bridge decks surface by taking a single shot or through stitching a couple of overlaid still images. If potential surface deficits are iden…

eess.IV2018★ 4 cited

Detecting Concrete Abnormality Using Time-series Thermal Imaging and Supervised Learning

Chongsheng Cheng, Zhigang Shen

Nondestructive detecting defects (NDD) in concrete structures have been explored for decades. Although limited successes were reported, major limitations still exist. The major lim…

eess.IV2018★ 3 cited

Time-Series Based Thermography on Concrete Block Void Detection

Chongsheng Cheng, Zhigang Shen

Using thermography as a nondestructive method for subsurface detection of the concrete structure has been developed for decades. However, the performance of current practice is lim…

cs.RO2017★ 34 cited

Real-time 3D Reconstruction on Construction Site using Visual SLAM and UAV

Zhexiong Shang, Zhigang Shen

3D reconstruction can be used as a platform to monitor the performance of activities on construction site, such as construction progress monitoring, structure inspection and post-d…

cs.CV2017★ 2 cited

Multi-point Vibration Measurement for Mode Identification of Bridge Structures using Video-based Motion Magnification

Zhexiong Shang, Zhigang Shen

Image-based vibration mode identification gained increased attentions in civil and construction communities. A recent video-based motion magnification method was developed to measu…