Scene restoration from scaffold occlusion using deep learning-based methods
The occlusion issues of computer vision (CV) applications in construction have attracted significant attention, especially those caused by the wide-coverage, crisscrossed, and immovable scaffold. Intuitively, removing the scaffold and restoring the occluded visual information can provide CV agents with clearer site views and thus help them better understand the construction scenes. Therefore, this study proposes a novel two-step method combining pixel-level segmentation and image inpainting for restoring construction scenes from scaffold occlusion. A low-cost data synthesis method based only on unlabeled data is developed to address the shortage dilemma of labeled data. Experiments on the synthesized test data show that the proposed method achieves performances of 92 segmentation and over 82 from scaffold occlusion.
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