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RETRACTED: A novel approach for detection and classification of re-entrant crack using modified CNNetwork

Shadrack Fred Mahenge (School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi’an, China)
Ala Alsanabani (School of Artificial Intelligence, Xidian University, Xi’an, China)

International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications

ISSN: 1742-7371

Article publication date: 21 December 2021

Issue publication date: 8 November 2024

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This article was retracted on 26 Nov 2024.

Retraction statement

The publishers of International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications wish to retract the article Mahenge, S.F. and Alsanabani, A. (2021), “A novel approach for detection and classification of re-entrant crack using modified CNNetwork”, International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Vol. 20 No. 4, pp. 383-397. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPCC-08-2021-0200

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The retracted article is available at: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPCC-08-2021-0200

Abstract

Purpose

In the purpose of the section, the cracks that are in the construction domain may be common and usually fixed with the human inspection which is at the visible range, but for the cracks which may exist at the distant place for the human eye in the same building but can be captured with the camera. If the crack size is quite big can be visible but few cracks will be present due to the flaws in the construction of walls which needs authentic information and confirmation about it for the successful completion of the wall cracks, as these cracks in the wall will result in the structure collapse.

Design/methodology/approach

In the modern era of digital image processing, it has captured the importance in all the domain of engineering and all the fields irrespective of the division of the engineering, hence, in this research study an attempt is made to deal with the wall cracks which are found or searched during the building inspection process, in the present context in association with the unique U-net architecture is used with convolutional neural network method.

Findings

In the construction domain, the cracks may be common and usually fixed with the human inspection which is at the visible range, but for the cracks which may exist at the distant place for the human eye in the same building but can be captured with the camera. If the crack size is quite big can be visible but few cracks will be present due to the flaws in the construction of walls which needs authentic information and confirmation about it for the successful completion of the wall cracks, as these cracks in the wall will result in the structure collapse. Hence, for the modeling of the proposed system, it is considered with the image database from the Mendeley portal for the analysis. With the experimental analysis, it is noted and observed that the proposed system was able to detect the wall cracks, search the flat surface by the result of no cracks found and it is successful in dealing with the two phases of operation, namely, classification and segmentation with the deep learning technique. In contrast to other conventional methodologies, the proposed methodology produces excellent performance results.

Originality/value

The originality of the paper is to find the portion of the cracks on the walls using deep learning architecture.

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Citation

Mahenge, S.F. and Alsanabani, A. (2024), "RETRACTED: A novel approach for detection and classification of re-entrant crack using modified CNNetwork", International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Vol. 20 No. 4, pp. 383-397. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPCC-08-2021-0200

Publisher

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Emerald Publishing Limited

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