Feature Engineering for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM)

Abstract

Feature engineering is a key component contributing to the performance of the computer vision pipeline. It is fundamental to several computer vision tasks such as object recognition, image retrieval, and image segmentation. On the other hand, the emerging technology of structural health monitoring (SHM) paved the way for spotting continuous tracking of structural damage. Damage detection and severity recognition in the structural buildings and constructions are issues of great importance as the various types of damages represent an essential indicator of building and construction durability. In this chapter, the authors connect the feature engineering with SHM processes through illustrating the concept of SHM from a computational perspective, with a focus on various types of data and feature engineering methods as well as applications and open venues for further research. Challenges to be addressed and future directions of research are presented and an extensive survey of state-of-the-art studies is also included.