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arxiv: 2504.05679 · v2 · submitted 2025-04-08 · 💻 cs.CV

Event-based Civil Infrastructure Visual Defect Detection: ev-CIVIL Dataset and Benchmark

Udayanga G.W.K.N. Gamage , Xuanni Huo , Luca Zanatta , T Delbruck , Cesar Cadena , Matteo Fumagalli , Silvia Tolu This is my paper

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keywords event-based visioncivil infrastructuredefect detectiondynamic vision sensorcrack detectionspallingUAV inspectiondataset
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The pith

Event-based cameras support reliable detection of cracks and spalling on civil structures even under rapidly changing light.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper creates the first dedicated dataset of event streams from dynamic vision sensors for finding cracks and spalling on infrastructure. Data were gathered with a DAVIS346 sensor that records both event streams and simultaneous grayscale frames, across hundreds of field and laboratory sequences. Standard real-time object detectors trained on these streams achieve usable performance where conventional cameras lose detail due to blur or saturation. A sympathetic reader would care because UAV inspections of bridges and buildings currently lose effectiveness whenever lighting shifts, and event sensors avoid that loss by design. If the results hold, maintenance teams could shift to lower-power, higher-reliability sensors without changing the rest of their detection pipeline.

Core claim

The central claim is that dynamic vision sensors produce event streams sufficient for real-time object detection of civil defects; the ev-CIVIL dataset supplies 680 recording sequences containing 678 cracks and 429 spalling instances, each captured simultaneously as events and APS frames, and four detection models trained on the event data demonstrate applicability under the same lighting conditions that degrade frame-based methods.

What carries the argument

The ev-CIVIL dataset of paired event streams and intensity frames recorded with the DAVIS346 camera, focused on cracks and spalling in field and laboratory settings.

If this is right

  • DVS data can be fed directly to existing real-time detectors without requiring new hardware beyond the sensor itself.
  • Inspections remain possible during dawn, dusk, or under moving shadows where frame cameras lose contrast.
  • Power consumption per inspection can decrease because event cameras transmit data only on change.
  • Separate training on event streams and on APS frames allows direct comparison of the two modalities on identical scenes.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same event streams could support tracking of defect growth over repeated flights without storing full video.
  • Combining event and frame data in one model might improve robustness beyond either modality alone.
  • Extension to additional defect types such as corrosion or joint separation would require only new labels on similar recordings.

Load-bearing premise

The specific sequences collected with one camera model and the defects labeled in them represent the range of real-world civil infrastructure surfaces and lighting variations.

What would settle it

A new set of recordings on previously unseen structures under lighting conditions outside the collected range where event-based detectors drop below usable precision while frame-based detectors remain usable.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2504.05679 by Cesar Cadena, Luca Zanatta, Matteo Fumagalli, Silvia Tolu, T Delbruck, Udayanga G.W.K.N. Gamage, Xuanni Huo.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: DAVIS346 event volume formation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Field and Laboratory data examples structures, including roads, pavements, tunnels, buildings, and walls containing 458 unique crack instances and 121 spalling instances. Examples of these data samples are visualized in fig. 2a. The figure displays grayscale image frames captured by the APS sensor, denoted as ’fr’ in the corresponding columns. Data captured by the DVS sensor are represented as 2D event his… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Number of sequences collected under different lighting conditions. timestamp x y p timestamp x y p timestamp x y p timestamp image_array timestamp image_array timestamp <class_id> (bbox_xlow) (bbox_ylow) (bbox_width) (bbox_height) events.h5 frames.h5 label.npy (a) Template outlining the composition of files events.h5 frames.h5 14015274 0 2.5 13.0 65 30.6 14015272 308 144 0 14015272 167 16 1 14015373 78 60 … view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Structure of a recording sequence in the ev-CIVIL Dataset: each event is characterized by a timestamp in µs, x and y are pixel coordinates within the 346x260 DAVIS346 spatial resolution, and a polarity value (p). The polarity p indicates the type of event: 1 for an increase in pixel intensity and 0 for a decrease. Data Collection For our study, which evaluates event-based defect detection in comparison to … view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Data Collection Setup 0.10 0.05 0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 X (m) 0.025 0.020 0.015 0.010 0.005 0.000 0.005 0.010 Y (m) 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 Z (m) 3D Trajectory (a) Z-shaped camera trajectory with smooth, flowing bends 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4 Time (s) 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 Velocity Magnitude (m/s) (b) Instant velocity magnitude throughout the trajectory 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4 Time (s) 1 0 1 … view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: An illustration of the DAVIS346 camera’s ’Z’-shaped trajectory with smooth, flowing bends is shown in (a), depicting the trajectory’s two horizontal segments at different distances from the object, connected by a diagonal segment. The trajectory spans a range of 0.2 to 0.7 m, effectively covering this distance. Additionally, the corresponding instantaneous velocity magnitude profile (b), the variation in c… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Overview of the data collection process consisting of preparing the DAVIS346 camera, capturing grayscale images and DVS events simultaneously, and transferring the data to a PC after each recording sequence. to capture any meaningful information due to insufficient ambient lighting. To configure the DAVIS346 for data collection, we adjusted the bias values, optimized focus settings, and performed calibrati… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: The process of preparing and integrating an IR laser as an external illuminator with the DAVIS346 camera for scenarios requiring external illumination. (a) The IR laser projector of the Intel RealSense D435 is covered with a thin plastic strip containing tiny holes, where the hole diameter is smaller than that of the structured dot patterns. The covered laser projector is then attached to the handheld moun… view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Comparison of Fixed time length based 2D event histogram formation with our 2D event histogram formation method illustrated in algorithm 1: defect areas (in first-row “crack” defect, second row “spalling” defect) are localized by drawing bounding boxes extracted feature maps to detect objects efficiently in real￾time applications. YOLOv6 Architecture Variants : In our evaluations, we used the YOLOv6m16 and… view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: SSD300 Architecture various object shapes and sizes, particularly in real-time applications where computational efficiency is crucial. SSD300 Architecture and Model Variants : In SSD300-ResNet50, as shown in fig. 10 the backbone uses ResNet5019, a deep residual network known for its ability to capture high-level, semantic features. ResNet50 generates feature maps at different layers, which are then utiliz… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Yolov6 Architecture71 AP(c) = 1 n Xn i=1 P(IOUi) (3) where, n : the number of IoU thresholds. (More specifically, for coco AP0.5:0.95, these IOU thresholds range from 0.5 to 0.95 with a step size of 0.05. And for coco AP0.5 n = 1, as it calculated for the IOU threshold 0.5) P(IOUi) : the precision calculated at IoU threshold IOUi as in eq. (5) F1iou0.5 score : F1iou0.5 metric which combines precision and … view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Extraction of grayscale images and event-based data from the evCIVIL dataset for benchmarking crack and spalling detection. First, 10-15 samples are obtained from each recording sequence. For each sample, 2D event histograms are generated from the corresponding events. The extracted grayscale image frames are then preprocessed. These preprocessed grayscale images, 2D event histograms, and extracted annota… view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Qualititative visualization of event-based and frame-based crack and spalling detection results of four detection models on Adequately-Illuminated Test Set [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Qualitative visualization of the event-based and image-based crack and spalling detection results for the YOLOv6m and YOLOv6lite-s models on the Low-Light Test Set: ”Other scenarios” refers to conditions involving saturated and dynamic lighting, in addition to dimly lit environments. formation method outperformed the fixed temporal length￾based formulations when fixed temporal lengths were set to 25 ms, 3… view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Percentage reduction of mAP@0.5 and F1iou0.5 metrics of defect detections with (a) YOLOv6m, (b) YOLOv6lite-s, (c) SSD300 with ResNet backbone, and (d) SSD300 with MobileNetV2 backbone, when those models were trained without Laboratory data. The results are displayed with respect to the two test sets; that is adequate lighting test set and low/dynamic lighting test set T_10 T_15 T_20 T_25 Ours method 0.0 0… view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Comparison of our 2 channel histogram method explained in algorithm 1 (Ours) with fixed temporal length based histogram formation method. For adequately illuminated data, the fixed temporal lengths are 10 ms (T 10), 15 ms (T 15), 20 ms (T 20), and 25 ms (T 25). For low-illuminated data, the fixed temporal lengths are 25 ms (T 25), 30 ms (T 30), 35 ms (T 35), and 40 ms (T 40). Performance is evaluated in t… view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Variation in classification accuracy among ResNet34, VGG16, and MobileNetV2 models for frame-based and event-based classification tasks across different input spatial resolutions (32x32, 64x64, 128x128, 224x224) in both Adequately-Illuminated and Low-Light test datasets 128×128. For the same Low-light Test Set, the highest event￾based classification accuracy of 93% was also achieved with the EfficientNet-… view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Image-based and event-based detection errors 000 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 000 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 020 021 022 023 024 025 026 027 028 029 030 031 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 044 ECC… view at source ↗
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Figure 1. Figure 1: Issues involved with event-based detections: (a) partial detections due gure 19. Issues involved with eventbased detections: (a) partial detections due to directionality of DVS, (b) blur in nighttime vent-based 2D histograms as camera movement increases. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_1.png] view at source ↗
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Small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based visual inspections are a more efficient alternative to manual methods for examining civil structural defects, offering safe access to hazardous areas and significant cost savings by reducing labor requirements. However, traditional frame-based cameras, widely used in UAV-based inspections, often struggle to capture defects under low or dynamic lighting conditions. In contrast, dynamic vision sensors (DVS), or event-based cameras, excel in such scenarios by minimizing motion blur, enhancing power efficiency, and maintaining high-quality imaging across diverse lighting conditions without saturation or information loss. Despite these advantages, existing research lacks studies exploring the feasibility of using DVS for detecting civil structural defects. Moreover, there is no dedicated event-based dataset tailored for this purpose. Addressing this gap, this study introduces the first event-based civil infrastructure defect detection dataset, capturing defective surfaces as a spatio-temporal event stream using DVS. In addition to event-based data, the dataset includes grayscale intensity image frames captured simultaneously using an active pixel sensor (APS). Both data types were collected using the DAVIS346 camera, which integrates DVS and APS sensors. The dataset focuses on two types of defects: cracks and spalling, and includes data from both field and laboratory environments. The field dataset comprises 318 recording sequences, documenting 458 distinct cracks and 121 distinct spalling instances. The laboratory dataset includes 362 recording sequences, covering 220 distinct cracks and 308 spalling instances. We evaluated the dataset using four real-time object detection models.The results demonstrate the applicability of DVS cameras for robust detection of civil infrastructure defects under challenging lighting conditions.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces the ev-CIVIL dataset, the first event-based dataset for civil infrastructure visual defect detection. It collects spatio-temporal event streams and simultaneous APS grayscale frames using a DAVIS346 camera across 318 field sequences (458 cracks, 121 spalling) and 362 laboratory sequences (220 cracks, 308 spalling). Four real-time object detection models are evaluated on the data, with the central claim that the results demonstrate the applicability of DVS cameras for robust detection of cracks and spalling under challenging lighting conditions.

Significance. If the dataset collection protocols and model evaluations establish a clear performance advantage for event data over frame-based imaging specifically in low or dynamic lighting, the work would be significant as the first dedicated benchmark in this application domain. The dual field/lab collection and inclusion of both DVS and APS modalities provide a useful resource for future UAV-based inspection research.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and Dataset section] Abstract and Dataset section: The claim that DVS enables 'robust detection ... under challenging lighting conditions' is not supported by any reported lux ranges, dynamic lighting protocols, or quantitative APS-vs-DVS performance differentials. Without these, the central robustness claim cannot be evaluated.
  2. [Experiments section] Experiments section: No quantitative performance numbers (mAP, precision-recall, or error analysis) are supplied for the four object detection models, nor any baseline comparison against frame-based methods on the same sequences. This leaves the 'results demonstrate' statement without empirical grounding.
  3. [Dataset section] Dataset section: The representativeness of the 680 total sequences for real-world civil infrastructure under conditions where frame-based cameras fail is asserted but not demonstrated; no details on lighting variability, motion speeds, or failure cases of APS are provided to substantiate the weakest assumption.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Dataset section] Clarify the exact train/validation/test splits and labeling protocol (e.g., how event streams were annotated) to improve reproducibility.
  2. [Experiments section] Add a table summarizing the four models, their input modalities (events vs. APS), and key hyperparameters.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive comments on our manuscript introducing the ev-CIVIL dataset. We have reviewed each major comment and provide our responses below, along with plans for revision.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and Dataset section] The claim that DVS enables 'robust detection ... under challenging lighting conditions' is not supported by any reported lux ranges, dynamic lighting protocols, or quantitative APS-vs-DVS performance differentials. Without these, the central robustness claim cannot be evaluated.

    Authors: We acknowledge this point and agree that additional details are needed to support the claim. In the revised manuscript, we will include measured lux ranges for the field and laboratory sequences, describe the dynamic lighting protocols used during collection, and provide quantitative performance comparisons between the DVS event data and the simultaneous APS frames for the detection models. This will be incorporated into both the Dataset and Experiments sections. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experiments section] No quantitative performance numbers (mAP, precision-recall, or error analysis) are supplied for the four object detection models, nor any baseline comparison against frame-based methods on the same sequences. This leaves the 'results demonstrate' statement without empirical grounding.

    Authors: We agree that the manuscript lacks sufficient quantitative details. In the revision, we will supply the mAP, precision-recall, and error analysis numbers for the four models, as well as include baseline comparisons against frame-based methods using the APS data on the same sequences to provide empirical grounding for the results. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Dataset section] The representativeness of the 680 total sequences for real-world civil infrastructure under conditions where frame-based cameras fail is asserted but not demonstrated; no details on lighting variability, motion speeds, or failure cases of APS are provided to substantiate the weakest assumption.

    Authors: To address this, we will expand the Dataset section with specific details on lighting variability across the sequences, typical UAV motion speeds during recording, and documented cases where APS frames exhibited failures such as motion blur or saturation, while the corresponding event streams enabled successful defect capture. This will better demonstrate the real-world applicability. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical dataset collection and standard model benchmarking

full rationale

The paper introduces the ev-CIVIL dataset collected with a DAVIS346 camera and evaluates four off-the-shelf real-time object detection models on event streams and APS frames for crack and spalling detection. No derivations, equations, or parameter-fitting steps appear in the provided text. The central claim rests on new field and laboratory recordings plus standard benchmark results rather than any self-referential reduction of outputs to inputs defined by the authors. Self-citations, if present, are not load-bearing for the empirical demonstration.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The paper relies primarily on standard practices in event camera data collection and off-the-shelf object detection models rather than introducing new free parameters, axioms, or invented entities.

axioms (1)
  • standard math Standard assumptions about event generation and calibration in DAVIS346 DVS/APS sensors hold for the collected sequences.
    Implicit in the use of the integrated camera for simultaneous event and intensity data capture.

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