Automated Defect Recognition Using Spline Interpolation

Existing infrastructure systems are aged and deteriorated rapidly, state agencies started searching for more advanced way to maintain their valuable assets to the acceptable level. One of them is the application of digital image processing. This problem proposes a digital image processing method to assess a steel bridge coating surface. The image processing method was developed based on B-Spline interpolation and can be used to recognizing the existence of bridge coating rust defects. An automated defect recognition method can make a decision whether a given digitized image contains defects by image comparison.