Abstract
The use of deep learning (DL) in civil inspection, especially in crack detection, has increased over the past years to ensure long-term structural safety and integrity. To achieve a better understanding of the research work on crack detection using DL approaches, this paper aims to provide a bibliometric analysis and review of the current literature on DL-based crack detection published between 2010 and 2022. The search from Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus, two widely accepted bibliographic databases, resulted in 165 articles published in top journals and conferences, showing the rapid increase in publications in this area since 2018. The evolution and state-of-the-art approaches to crack detection using deep learning are reviewed and analyzed based on datasets, network architecture, domain, and performance of each study. Overall, this review article stands as a reference for researchers working in the field of crack detection using deep learning techniques to achieve optimal precision and computational efficiency performance in light of electing the most effective combination of dataset characteristics and network architecture for each domain. Finally, the challenges, gaps, and future directions are provided to researchers to explore various solutions pertaining to (a) automatic recognition of crack type and severity, (b) dataset availability and suitability, (c) efficient data preprocessing techniques, (d) automatic labeling approaches for crack detection, (e) parameter tuning and optimization, (f) using 3D images and data fusion, (g) real-time crack detection, and (h) increasing segmentation accuracy at the pixel level.
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