Concrete Structural Crack Damage Classification Using Nonlinear Dimension Reduction and Broad Learning System

Concrete structural crack damage classification is of importance for road safety. This paper proposes a new method based on broad neural network for crack damage classification in concrete structures. It includes three stages. Firstly, a pre-trained deep neural network is used to extract the features from crack images. Secondly, principal component analysis is used to project the retrieved features from high dimensions to low dimensions. Thirdly, broad learning system is employed to predict the classification using the low-dimensional features. Experimental results demonstrate that this method reduces the model's training time and improves classification accuracy.