Monitoring Accropodes Breakwaters using RGB-D Cameras

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

2015

Abstract

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 arrangement 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.

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Moltisanti D., Farinella G., Musumeci R., Foti E. and Battiato S. (2015). Monitoring Accropodes Breakwaters using RGB-D Cameras . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-089-5, pages 76-83. DOI: 10.5220/0005297000760083


in Bibtex Style

@conference{visapp15,
author={D. Moltisanti and G. M. Farinella and R. E. Musumeci and E. Foti and S. Battiato},
title={Monitoring Accropodes Breakwaters using RGB-D Cameras},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={76-83},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005297000760083},
isbn={978-989-758-089-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications - Volume 1: VISAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)
TI - Monitoring Accropodes Breakwaters using RGB-D Cameras
SN - 978-989-758-089-5
AU - Moltisanti D.
AU - Farinella G.
AU - Musumeci R.
AU - Foti E.
AU - Battiato S.
PY - 2015
SP - 76
EP - 83
DO - 10.5220/0005297000760083