Computer vision techniques in construction: a critical review

S Xu, J Wang, W Shou, T Ngo, AM Sadick… - … Methods in Engineering, 2021 - Springer
Computer vision has been gaining interest in a wide range of research areas in recent
years, from medical to industrial robotics. The architecture, engineering and construction …

Computer vision technologies for safety science and management in construction: A critical review and future research directions

BHW Guo, Y Zou, Y Fang, YM Goh, PXW Zou - Safety science, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent years have seen growing interests in developing and applying computer vision
technologies to solve safety problems in the construction industry. Despite the technological …

Falls from heights: A computer vision-based approach for safety harness detection

W Fang, L Ding, H Luo, PED Love - Automation in construction, 2018 - Elsevier
Falls from heights (FFH) are major contributors of injuries and deaths in construction. Yet,
despite workers being made aware of the dangers associated with not wearing a safety …

Automated detection of workers and heavy equipment on construction sites: A convolutional neural network approach

W Fang, L Ding, B Zhong, PED Love, H Luo - Advanced Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
Detecting the presence of workers, plant, equipment, and materials (ie objects) on sites to
improve safety and productivity has formed an integral part of computer vision-based …

Development of an image data set of construction machines for deep learning object detection

B Xiao, SC Kang - Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Deep learning object detection algorithms have proven their capacity to identify a variety of
objects from images and videos in near real-time speed. The construction industry can …

Automated methods for activity recognition of construction workers and equipment: State-of-the-art review

B Sherafat, CR Ahn, R Akhavian… - Journal of …, 2020 - ascelibrary.org
Equipment and workers are two important resources in the construction industry.
Performance monitoring of these resources would help project managers improve the …

Vision-based framework for automatic progress monitoring of precast walls by using surveillance videos during the construction phase

Z Wang, Q Zhang, B Yang, T Wu, K Lei… - Journal of Computing …, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Detecting and locating precast components to confirm and update components' status
information is the key to construction progress monitoring. There are several ways to collect …

Convolutional neural networks: Computer vision-based workforce activity assessment in construction

H Luo, C Xiong, W Fang, PED Love, B Zhang… - Automation in …, 2018 - Elsevier
Computer vision approaches have been widely used to automatically recognize the
activities of workers from videos. While considerable advancements have been made to …

Image-based construction hazard avoidance system using augmented reality in wearable device

K Kim, H Kim, H Kim - Automation in construction, 2017 - Elsevier
Construction sites are inherently dynamic due to continuous resource changes. As
construction projects become bigger and more complex, this dynamism can lead to more …

End-to-end vision-based detection, tracking and activity analysis of earthmoving equipment filmed at ground level

D Roberts, M Golparvar-Fard - Automation in Construction, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new benchmark dataset for validating vision-based methods that
automatically identifies visually distinctive working activities of excavators and dump trucks …