Algorithm on Contourlet Domain in Detection of Road Cracks for Pavement Images

Abstract

In this paper we present a detection algorithm of road cracks in several directions and each layer for pavement images in contourlet domain. Firstly, a pavement image is converted to a grey-scale image which is decomposed by using contourlet transform. Then directionality and anisotropy are used to enhance the singular characteristic of the image by expanding all scale detail coefficients to the same size and combining the coefficients. The new approach avoids unreasonable evaluation result of classical unified crack index pavement distress evaluation method based on image tile. Experimental results show that the algorithm proposed in this paper can detect pavement cracks effectively which is not affected by noise.