Journal of Optoelectronics · Laser, Volume. 36, Issue 7, 722(2025)

Lightweight concrete crack segmentation algorithm integrating feature interaction and attention

PENG Yaopan, ZHANG Rongfen*, LIU Yuhong, and OUYANG Yuxuan
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  • College of Big Data and Information Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou 550025, China
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    Cracks pose one of the most safety hazard to concrete building structures. A lightweight crack segmentation algorithm with improved DeepLabV3+ is proposed for efficiently segmenting concrete cracks and assessing their hazards in a timely manner. Firstly, MobileNetV3 is used as the lightweight backbone to significantly reduce the number of model parameters. Secondly, the attention-based intrascale feature interaction (AIFI) module is used to model the global information, and the normalization-based attention module (NAM) is introduced to facilitate the interaction of multi-level crack feature information. In addition, the mixed model of both self-attention and convolution is introduced after extracting the low-level high-resolution features, which captures the detailed features more efficiently; and finally, the C2f-SCConv module is designed to decode the fused high- and low-level feature streams, reducing computational redundancy and improving the perception of multi-scale features. Experimental results on the public crack datasets Concrete3k and Asphalt3k show that the number of parameters of the proposed model is reduced by 88.1% compared with that of the DeepLabV3+ model, the pixel accuracy is improved by 0.02%, the mean intersection over union (mIoU) reaches 86.21%, and the average frame rate is 47.91 frames per second. It means that the proposed methods reduce complexity of the model while improve segmentation efficiency to the cracks significantly.

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    PENG Yaopan, ZHANG Rongfen, LIU Yuhong, OUYANG Yuxuan. Lightweight concrete crack segmentation algorithm integrating feature interaction and attention[J]. Journal of Optoelectronics · Laser, 2025, 36(7): 722

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    Received: Feb. 4, 2024

    Accepted: Jun. 24, 2025

    Published Online: Jun. 24, 2025

    The Author Email: ZHANG Rongfen (rfzhang@gzu.edu.cn)

    DOI:10.16136/j.joel.2025.07.0070

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