Application of independent component analysis for evaluation of ashlar masonry walls

Handle

https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/58588

Cita bibliográfica

Salazar Afanador, A.; Safont Armero, G.; Vergara Domínguez, L. (2011). Application of independent component analysis for evaluation of ashlar masonry walls. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 6691(1):469-476. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21498-1_59

Titulación

Resumen

[EN] This paper presents a novel application of Independent Component Analysis (ICA) to the evaluation of ashlar masonry walls inspected with Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR). ICA is used as preprocessor to eliminate the background from the backscattered signals. Thus, signal-to-noise ratio of the GPR signals is enhanced. Several experiments were made on scale models of historic ashlar masonry walls. These models were loaded with different weights, and the corresponding B-Scans were obtained. ICA shows the best performance to enhance the quality of the B-Scans compared with classical methods used in GPR signal processing.

Palabras clave

ICA, GPR, NDT, Clutter

ISSN

0302-9743

ISBN

978-3-642-21497-4 (Print)
978-3-642-21498-1 (Online)

Fuente

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

DOI

10.1007/978-3-642-21498-1_59