1. Detection of Partially Structural Collapse Using Long-Term Small Displacement Data from Satellite Images.
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Entezami, Alireza, De Michele, Carlo, Arslan, Ali Nadir, and Behkamal, Bahareh
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STRUCTURAL health monitoring ,MARKOV chain Monte Carlo ,ARTIFICIAL neural networks ,DATA augmentation ,BLENDED learning ,REMOTE-sensing images ,SYNTHETIC aperture radar - Abstract
The development of satellite sensors and interferometry synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technology has enabled the exploitation of their benefits for long-term structural health monitoring (SHM). However, some restrictions cause this process to provide a small number of images leading to the problem of small data for SAR-based SHM. Conversely, the major challenge of the long-term monitoring of civil structures pertains to variations in their inherent properties by environmental and/or operational variability. This article aims to propose new hybrid unsupervised learning methods for addressing these challenges. The methods in this work contain three main parts: (i) data augmentation by the Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm, (ii) feature normalization, and (iii) decision making via Mahalanobis-squared distance. The first method presented in this work develops an artificial neural network-based feature normalization by proposing an iterative hyperparameter selection of hidden neurons of the network. The second method is a novel unsupervised teacher–student learning by combining an undercomplete deep neural network and an overcomplete single-layer neural network. A small set of long-term displacement samples extracted from a few SAR images of TerraSAR-X is applied to validate the proposed methods. The results show that the methods can effectively deal with the major challenges in the SAR-based SHM applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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