Monitoring Accropodes Breakwaters using RGB-D Cameras

D. Moltisanti., G. M. Farinella., R. E. Musumeci., E. Foti., S. Battiato.

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Breakwaters are marine structures useful for the safe harbouring of ships and the protection of harbours from sedimentation and coasts from erosion. Breakwater monitoring is then a critical part of coastal engineering research, since it is crucial to know the state of a breakwater at any time in order to evaluate its health in terms of stability and plan restoration works. In this paper we present a novel breakwaters monitoring approach based on the analysis of 3D point clouds acquired with RGB-D cameras. The proposed method is able to estimate roto-translation movements of the Accropodes, building the armour layer of a breakwater, both under and above still water level, without any need of human interaction. We tested the proposed monitoring method with several laboratory experiments. The experiments consisted of the hitting of a scale model barrier by waves in a laboratory tank, aiming to asses the robustness of a particular configuration of the breakwater (that is, the ar rangement of the Accropodes building the structure). During tests, several 3D depth maps of the barrier have been taken with a RGB-D camera. These point clouds, hence, have been processed to compute roto-translation movement, in order to monitor breakwater conditions and estimate its damage over time.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - (Volume 2)
Editors José Braz, Sebastiano Battiato, Francisco Imai
PublisherSCITEPRESS
Pages76-83
Number of pages8
Volume2
ISBN (Electronic)978-989-758-089-5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Mar 2015
Event10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Berlin, Germany
Duration: 11 Mar 201514 Mar 2015
Conference number: 10
https://visapp.scitevents.org/Home.aspx?y=2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications
PublisherScitePress
Volume2
ISSN (Electronic)2184-4321

Conference

Conference10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications
Abbreviated titleVISAPP 2015
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityBerlin
Period11/03/1514/03/15
Internet address

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • 3D Breakwaters Monitoring
  • RGB-D Cameras
  • Iterative Closest Point
  • Point Cloud Alignment

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