A method includes receiving sensor data indicative of a paved surface, and identifying a defect associated with the paved surface based at least in part on the sensor data. The method also includes determining that the defect is of a defect type based on determining that a value associated with the defect is within a value range associated with the defect type. The method further includes generating a command associated with the defect that, when executed by a machine, at least partially remedies the defect. The method also includes providing the command to an electronic device via a network.

A plurality of illumination elements obliquely irradiating an inspection target region in irradiation directions different from each other and equiangularly spaced around an image capturing part in a state where each of a low-angle, intermediate-angle, and high-angle illumination parts has a different irradiation angle are sequentially turned on and off. An image of the image captured region is captured every time each of the plurality of illumination elements is turned on. A determination image generation part specifies an inspection-excluded region based on at least one of maximum luminance image data and minimum luminance image data of three types of captured image data each corresponding to an irradiation angle of each illumination part and generates determination image data for the image captured region other than the inspection-excluded region. A defect determination part determines existence of a defect based on the determination image data.

An information processing apparatus for supporting a user's task for identifying a defect in an object based on a target image that is a photographed image of the object, includes: a selecting unit that selects, based on an user's input, one from one or more reference images to which is referred by the user for identifying a defect in the object; a display unit that comparably displays the target image and the selected reference image on a certain display device; a specifying unit that receives an user's operation for specifying a defect in the target image displayed by the display unit; and a generating unit that generates a new reference image based on a partial area, of the target image, including the specified defect. A new reference image generated by the generating unit is added to the one or more reference images selectable by the selecting unit.

An information processing apparatus comprising: a first acquiring unit configured to acquire information about learning data used in learning of each of a plurality of prelearned models for recognizing input data; a second acquiring unit configured to acquire information indicating an attribute of recognition target data; and a model selecting unit configured to select a model to be used in recognition of the recognition target data from the plurality of models, based on a degree of matching between the attribute of the recognition target data and an attribute of the learning data used in learning of each of the plurality of models, and on diversity of the attribute of the learning data used in learning of each of the plurality of models.

A method is disclosed for interrogating enclosed spaces such as sewers and the like by commanding a camera to travel through the enclosed space while transmitting the video feed from the camera to a remote location for viewing and processing. The processing involves image manipulation before analyzing frames of the video using a neural network developed for this task to identify defects from a library of known defects. Once a new defect is identified, it is inserted into the model to augment the library and improve the accuracy of the program. The operator can pause the process to annotate the images or override the model's determination of the defect for further enhancement of the methodology.

The ground information about the uneven state of the ground is easily detected. A ground information detection method according to the present invention includes: a point group data acquisition step for acquiring point group data generated as three-dimensional coordinates for each point on the ground with laser light emitted from a three-dimensional scanning device installed at a known point; and a ground information detection step for detecting ground information about an uneven state of the ground using the point group data acquired at the point group data acquisition step.

An acquisition section (12) acquires a reflected wave intensity image in which a reflected wave intensity of an electromagnetic wave that has been radiated in a direction through a surface of a reinforced concrete structure toward an interior of the reinforced concrete structure at respective positions on the surface of the reinforced concrete structure is expressed by pixel values of pixels corresponding to each of the respective positions. A setting section (14) sets an evaluation target range in the acquired reflected wave intensity image. A computation section (16) computes a statistical indicator of a type set according to the set range for pixel values in the reflected wave intensity image. An evaluation section (18) evaluates a degree of deterioration of the reinforced concrete structure using the computed values.

The present invention is directed to making it possible to reduce a possibility of image stitching failures. An information processing apparatus includes a feature extraction unit configured to extract feature points from each of a plurality of images of an object to be inspected captured from a plurality of viewpoints, an image quality evaluation unit configured to, for each of the plurality of images, evaluate whether an image quality based on a predetermined index satisfies allowable conditions for inspection works of the object, and an image stitching unit configured to stitch at least a part of the images, among the plurality of images, having the image quality that satisfies the allowable conditions according to a positional relation based on the feature points.

A system for visually enhancing a surface. For example, the system may include an assembly that may be configured to project a laser line across at least a portion of the surface. Versions of the laser line may be projected at an angle of incidence relative to a plane defined by the surface. For example, the angle of incidence may be in a range of about 5 degrees to about 60 degrees. In one version, the laser line may be substantially perpendicular to a central axis of the surface. In addition, the laser line may enable enhanced, qualitative user visualization of the surface and non-planar distortion in the surface.

Some embodiments are directed to, by a simple operation, appropriately displaying an image to which attention is paid. An information processing apparatus according to some embodiments is an information processing apparatus for performing display for measuring a width of a region in an image of an inspection target object, the information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit configured to acquire a bending position where a bend of a line approximating the region from the image satisfies a predetermined condition, and a display control unit configured to display, in an aligned manner in a predetermined direction, a plurality of partial images obtained by dividing the image based on the bending position.