<title>System identification by video image processing</title>

Abstract

Emerging image processing techniques demonstrate their potential applications in earthquake engineering, particularly in the area of system identification. In this respect, the objectives of this research are to demonstrate the underlying principle that permits system identification, non-intrusively and remotely, with the aid of video camera and, for the purpose of the proof-ofconcept, to apply the principle to a system identification problem involving relative motion, on the basis of the images. In structural control, accelerations at different stories of a building are usually measured and fed back for processing and control. As an alternative, this study attempts to identify the relative motion between different stories of a building for the purpose of on-line structural control by digitizing the images taken by video camera. For this purpose, the video image of the vibration of a structure base-isolated by a friction device under shaking-table was used successfully to observe relative displacement between the isolated structure and the shaking-table. This proof-of-concept experiment demonstrates that the proposed identification method based on digital image processing can be used with appropriate modifications to identify many other engineering-wise significant quantities remotely. In addition to the system identification study in the structural dynamics mentioned above, a result of preliminary study is described involving the video imaging of state of crack damage of road and highway pavement.

<title>GIS-based automated management of highway surface crack inspection system</title>

“…Applying high-performance image devices was not fully investigated. The first prototype was developed at University of Southern California(Shinozuka, et al, 2001) and has been continuingly developed and improved at the University of California, Irvine(Chung et al, 2003). Its modules and functions were developed in the framework of GIS software by constructing Visual Basic source codes and interfaces in inexpensive and efficient ways.…”