Comparison and Analysis of Several Clustering Algorithms for Pavement Crack Segmentation Guided by Computational Intelligence

Abstract

Cracks are one of the most common types of imperfections that can be found in concrete pavement, and they have a significant influence on the structural strength. The purpose of this study is to investigate the performance differences of various spatial clustering algorithms for pavement crack segmentation and to provide some reference for the work that is being done to maintain pavement currently. This is done by comparing and analyzing the performance of complex crack photos in different settings. For the purpose of evaluating how well the comparison method works, the indices of evaluation of NMI and RI have been selected. The experiment also includes a detailed analysis and comparison of the noisy photographs. According to the results of the experiments, the segmentation effect of these cluster algorithms is significantly worse after adding Gaussian noise; based on the NMI value, the mean-shift clustering algorithm has the best de-noise effect, whereas the performance of some clustering algorithms significantly decreases after adding noise.