Point Cloud-Based Concrete Surface Defect Semantic Segmentation Using Modified PointNet++
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Abstract
Structural inspection is essential to improve the safety and sustainability of infrastructure systems, such as bridges. Therefore, several technologies have been developed to detect defects automatically and accurately. For example, instead of using naked eye for bridge surface defect detection, which is subjective and risky, Light Detection and Ranging can collect high-quality 3D point clouds.This paperpresents the Surface Normal Enhanced PointNet++ (SNEPointNet++),which is a modified version of thewell-knownPointNet++methodapplied to thetask of concrete surface defectdetection. To this end, a point clouddatasetfrom three bridges in Montreal was collected, annotated,and classified into the three classesofcracks, spalls, and no-defects. Based on the comparison between the results(IoU)from the proposed method and similar researchdoneon the same dataset, there areat least 54% and 13% performance improvementsin detecting cracks and spalls,respectively.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".