Timothy Malche
Created August 29, 2023 © MIT

Automated Structural Damage Inspection using Computer Vision

Creating a CV model for drones, cranes & machines to inspect hard-to-reach structures (bridges, skyscrapers) for damage like cracks, asr etc

AdvancedWork in progress15 hours508

Things used in this project

Hardware components

Pluto X
Drona Aviation Pluto X
×1
ESP32 CAM WiFi Module
×1

Software apps and online services

Roboflow
OpenCV
OpenCV

Story

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Custom parts and enclosures

Drone With WiFi Camera

Schematics

The structure of project, from development to deployment

Code

Inference Script

Python
import json
import cv2
import base64
import numpy as np
import requests
import time


# load config
with open('roboflow_config.json') as f:
    config = json.load(f)

    ROBOFLOW_API_KEY = config["ROBOFLOW_API_KEY"]
    ROBOFLOW_SIZE = config["ROBOFLOW_SIZE"]
    ROBOFLOW_MODEL_ID = config["ROBOFLOW_MODEL_ID"]
    ROBOFLOW_VERSION_NUMBER = config["ROBOFLOW_VERSION_NUMBER"]

    FRAMERATE = config["FRAMERATE"]
    BUFFER = config["BUFFER"]

# Construct the Roboflow Infer URL
# obtaining your API key: https://docs.roboflow.com/rest-api#obtaining-your-api-key
# (if running locally replace https://detect.roboflow.com/ with eg http://127.0.0.1:9001/)
upload_url = "".join([
    "https://detect.roboflow.com/",
    ROBOFLOW_MODEL_ID, "/",
    ROBOFLOW_VERSION_NUMBER,
    "?api_key=",
    ROBOFLOW_API_KEY,
    "&format=json",
    "&confidence=20",
    "&stroke=5"
])

# Get webcam interface via opencv-python
# Getting Live Stream from WiFi Camera Module

URL = "http://192.168.236.247"
video = cv2.VideoCapture(URL + ":81/stream")

# Infer via the Roboflow Infer API and return the result
def infer():
    # Get the current image from the webcam
    ret, img = video.read()

    # Resize (while maintaining the aspect ratio) to improve speed and save bandwidth
    height, width, channels = img.shape
    scale = ROBOFLOW_SIZE / max(height, width)
    
    img = cv2.resize(img, (round(scale * width), round(scale * height)))
    

    # Encode image to base64 string
    retval, buffer = cv2.imencode('.jpg', img)
    img_str = base64.b64encode(buffer)

    # Get prediction from Roboflow Infer API  
    resp = requests.post(upload_url, data=img_str, headers={
        "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
    }, stream=True)
    
    predictions = resp.json()
    detections = predictions['predictions']

    # Parse result image
    # image = np.asarray(bytearray(resp.read()), dtype="uint8")
    # image = cv2.imdecode(image, cv2.IMREAD_COLOR)

    # Add predictions (bounding box, class label and confidence score) to image
    for bounding_box in detections:
        x0 = bounding_box['x'] - bounding_box['width'] / 2
        x1 = bounding_box['x'] + bounding_box['width'] / 2
        y0 = bounding_box['y'] - bounding_box['height'] / 2
        y1 = bounding_box['y'] + bounding_box['height'] / 2
        class_name = bounding_box['class']
        confidence = bounding_box['confidence']
        # position coordinates: start = (x0, y0), end = (x1, y1)
        # color = RGB-value for bounding box color, (0,0,0) is "black"
        # thickness = stroke width/thickness of bounding box
        start_point = (int(x0), int(y0))
        end_point = (int(x1), int(y1))
        # draw/place bounding boxes on image
        cv2.rectangle(img, start_point, end_point, color=(0,0,0), thickness=2)

        (text_width, text_height), _ = cv2.getTextSize(
            f"{class_name} | {confidence}",
            fontFace=cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX, fontScale=0.7, thickness=2)

        cv2.rectangle(img, (int(x0), int(y0)), (int(x0) + text_width, int(y0) - text_height), color=(0,0,0),
            thickness=-1)
        
        text_location = (int(x0), int(y0))
        
        cv2.putText(img, f"{class_name} | {confidence}",
                    text_location, fontFace=cv2.FONT_HERSHEY_SIMPLEX, fontScale=0.7,
                    color=(255,255,255), thickness=2) 

    return img, detections


# Main loop; infers sequentially until you press "q"
while 1:
    # On "q" keypress, exit
    if(cv2.waitKey(1) == ord('q')):
        break

    # Capture start time to calculate fps
    start = time.time()

    # Synchronously get a prediction from the Roboflow Infer API
    image, detections = infer()
    # And display the inference results
    cv2.imshow('image', image)

    # Print frames per second
    print((1/(time.time()-start)), " fps")
    print(detections)

# Release resources when finished
video.release()
cv2.destroyAllWindows()

Config File

JSON
Please change the settings according to RoboFlow Project
{
    "__comment1": "Obtain these values via Roboflow",
    "ROBOFLOW_API_KEY": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "ROBOFLOW_WORKSPACE_ID": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "ROBOFLOW_MODEL_ID": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "ROBOFLOW_VERSION_NUMBER": "xx",
    "ROBOFLOW_SIZE": 640,
    "EMAIL": "xxxxxxxxxxxx@email.com",
    
    "__comment2": "The following are only needed for infer-async.py",
    "FRAMERATE": 24,
    "BUFFER": 0.5
}

Credits

Timothy Malche

Timothy Malche

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Maker, Educator, Researcher

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