Mobile-DenseNet: Detection of building concrete surface cracks using a new fusion technique based on deep learning.

Crack detection is very important during the inspection of building structures to determine whether they are safe. Therefore, to ensure the reliability and longevity of buildings, it is necessary to have experts periodically carry out building inspections. Building inspection has traditionally been conducted using human-based visual inspection methods as well as artificial intelligence methods that have shown great success in computer vision in recent years. In this study, 9 different models (Xception, VGG16, ResNet101, InceptionV3, InceptionResNetV2, MobileNetV2, DenseNet169, NASNetMobile, and EfficientNetB6), which have shown significant success in the field of artificial intelligence, are discussed to detect and classify cracks in building structures. In addition, a new fusion model structure called Mobile-DenseNet has been proposed by making block cutting and adding auxiliary layers to the MobileNetV2 and DenseNet169 model structures. With this proposed model structure, cracks in concrete structures were classified. A dataset consisting of concrete surface images was used to detect and classify cracks occurring in concrete structures, and a 99.87 % success rate was achieved with the proposed Mobile-DenseNet model in classifying cracks occurring on the concrete surface. The proposed model outperformed the traditional pretrained model structures in the study in terms of the number of transactions, density, features, complexity, and success accuracy.

A novel hybrid system for automatic detection of fish quality from eye and gill color characteristics using transfer learning technique.

Fish remains popular among the body's most essential nutrients, as it contains protein and polyunsaturated fatty acids. It is extremely important to choose the fish consumption according to the season and the freshness of the fish to be purchased. It is very difficult to distinguish between non-fresh fish and fresh fish mixed in the fish stalls. In addition to traditional methods used to determine meat freshness, significant success has been achieved in studies on fresh fish detection with artificial intelligence techniques. In this study, two different types of fish (anchovy and horse mackerel) used to determine fish freshness with convolutional neural networks, one of the artificial intelligence techniques. The images of fresh fish were taken, images of non-fresh fish were taken and two new datasets (Dataset1: Anchovy, Dataset2: Horse mackerel) were created. A novel hybrid model structure has been proposed to determine fish freshness using fish eye and gill regions on these two datasets. In the proposed model, Yolo-v5 and Inception-ResNet-v2 and Xception model structures are used through transfer learning. Whether the fish is fresh in both of the Yolo-v5 + Inception-ResNet-v2 (Dataset1: 97.67%, Dataset2: 96.0%) and Yolo-v5 + Xception (Dataset1: 88.00%, Dataset2: 94.67%) hybrid models created using these model structures has been successfully detected. Thanks to the model we have proposed, it will make an important contribution to the studies that will be conducted in the freshness studies of fish using different storage days and the estimation of fish size.