EAAI Journal 2025 Journal Article
Semi-supervised segmentation model for crack detection based on mutual consistency constraint and boundary loss
- Tianxiang Shi
- Yangyang Wang
- Yu Fang
- Yongqiang Zhang
Detecting and measuring cracks are crucial for ensuring the safety of civil infrastructures. Traditional fully supervised methods require an amount of high-precision labeled data, making them time-consuming to deploy. In this paper, a semi-supervised learning network model designed for crack segmentation is proposed to address this issue, which incorporates a mutual consistency constraint and a boundary loss function. The mutual consistency constraint enables the model to utilize information from unlabeled data, thereby improving its performance and efficacy. Meanwhile, the boundary loss function enhances the model's ability to predict images when the background pixels outnumber the crack pixels. To comprehensively evaluate the model performance, a new dataset featuring various environmental interferences is constructed. The model optimal hyperparameters and architecture are determined through the experiments and an ablation study. To highlight the advantages of the proposed network model, its prediction results are compared with other segmentation models. It is demonstrated that the proposed model delivers high-precision and robust results while requiring less labeled data.