We gratefully thank Wuhan Urban Construction Group 2023 Annual Scientific Research Project (NO.7) for funding this work.

1. Concrete sample image acquisition
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	<li>Transport concrete to the workplace, where it will be poured by the pump truck.</li>
	<li>To capture images, switch on the shooting equipment by moving the power key switch to the right and turning it to the ON position. Adjust the camera&#39;s mode knob to the green automatic mode, ensuring the camera lens is parallel to the concrete surface, and press the Shutter Key. Capture 20 image samples of non-vibrated concrete, sa...

Directional Gradient Histogram and SVM for Identifying Concrete Vibration States

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This paper utilizes the support vector machine (SVM) to learn the image features of various concrete vibration state samples. Based on the machine learning outcomes, a concrete vibration state recognition method based on image recognition is proposed. To enhance the recognition accuracy, it is crucial to control the parameters of the three key steps: image segmentation, image binarization, and directional gradient eigenvalue extraction. According to the test results, a smaller binarization threshold is employed to prepro...

Concrete is a fundamental building material extensively used in the construction industry. During pumping, the concrete frequently develops voids that require compaction through vibration. Inadequate vibration may result in a honeycombed concrete surface, while excessive vibration can lead to concrete segregation1,2. The quality of vibration operation significantly impacts the strength3,4,5,6 and durability of the formed concrete structures7,8. Cai et al.9,10 conducted a study that combined experimental research with numerical analysis to investigate the influence mechanism of vibration on aggregate settlement and concrete durability. The findings revealed that vibration time and aggregate particles exert a substantial impact on aggregate settlement, while aggregate density and the plastic viscosity of the cement-based material have minimal effects. Vibration causes aggregate deposition at the bottom of the concrete specimens. Moreover, as the vibration time increases, the chloride ion concentration decreases at the bottom of the concrete specimens while significantly increasing at the top9,10.
Currently, the assessment of concrete vibration state relies predominantly on manual judgment. As the construction industry continues to progress through intelligent reforms, robot operations have emerged as the future direction11,12. Consequently, a crucial challenge in intelligent vibration operations is how to enable robots to identify the vibration state of concrete.
The histogram of the oriented gradient is a technique that utilizes the intensity gradient of pixels or the distribution of edge directions as a descriptor to characterize the representation and shape of objects in images13,14. This approach operates on the local grid cells of the image, providing robust stability in characterizing image changes under various geometric and optical conditions.
Zhou et al.15 proposed a method for directly extracting directional gradient features from Bayer mode images. This approach omits numerous steps in calculating the directional gradient by matching the color filter column with the gradient operator, thereby significantly reducing the computational requirements for directional gradient image recognition. He et al.16 utilized the directional gradient histogram as the underlying feature and employed the mean clustering algorithm to classify rail fasteners and determine whether the fasteners are defective. The recognition results indicated that the histogram of the oriented gradient feature exhibited high sensitivity to fastener defects, meeting the needs of railway maintenance and repair. In another study, Xu et al.17 preprocessed face image features using Gabor wavelet filtering and reduced the dimension of feature vectors through binary coding and the HOG algorithm. The average recognition accuracy of the method is 92.5%.
The support vector machine (SVM)18 is used to map the vector into a high-dimensional space and establishes a separating hyperplane with a suitable direction to maximize the distance between two parallel hyperplanes. This allows for the classification of support vectors19. Scholars have improved and optimized this classification technology, leading to its application in various fields such as image recognition20,21, text classification22, reliability prediction23, and fault diagnosis24.
Li et al.25 developed a two-stage SVM model for seismic failure pattern recognition, focusing on three seismic failure modes. The analysis results indicate that the proposed two-stage SVM method can achieve more than 90% accuracy for the three failure modes. Yang et al.26 integrated an optimization algorithm with the SVM to simulate the relationship between the five ultrasonic parameters and the stress of the loaded concrete. The performance of an unoptimized SVM is unsatisfactory, particularly in the low-stress stage. However, traversing the model optimized by the algorithm yields improved results, albeit with lengthy computation times. In comparison, the particle swarm optimization optimized SVM significantly reduces the calculation time while delivering optimal simulation results. Yan et al.27 employed SVM technology and introduced a precision-insensitive loss function to predict the elastic modulus of high-strength concrete, comparing its prediction accuracy against the traditional regression model and neural network model. The research findings demonstrate that the SVM technology produces a smaller prediction error for elastic modulus compared to other methods.
This paper collects image samples of concrete under various vibration states and describes the concrete&#39;s different states using the directional gradient histogram technique. The directional gradient is employed as a feature vector for training the SVM, and the study focuses on the viability of using the directional gradient histogram-SVM technology to identify the vibration state of concrete. Additionally, the paper analyzes the influence mechanism between three key parameters-binarization threshold, directional gradient statistical block size, and directional gradient statistical interval number-in the feature extraction process of the directional gradient histogram and the recognition accuracy of the SVM.

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			<td>The sensor size is 23.5x15.6mm, the maximum acquisition resolution is 1440 * 1080, and the effective pixel is 24.3 million.</td>
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			<td>Wuhan Construction Changxin Technology Development Co., Ltd.</td>
			<td>C30 pumping concrete</td>
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image recognition and parameter analysis of concrete vibration state based on support vector machine

In this paper, the directional gradient histogram technology is employed to extract the features of concrete image samples captured under different vibration states. The support vector machine (SVM) is utilized to learn the relationship between image features and vibration state. The machine learning results are subsequently used to assess the feasibility of the concrete vibration state. Simultaneously, the influence mechanism of the calculation parameters of the directional gradient histogram on the recognition accuracy is analyzed. The results demonstrate the feasibility of using the directional gradient histogram-SVM technology to identify the vibration state of concrete. The recognition accuracy initially increases and then decreases as the block size of the directional gradient, or the number of statistical intervals increases. The recognition accuracy also decreases linearly with the increase of the binarization threshold. By using sample images with a resolution of 1024 pixels x 1024 pixels and optimizing the feature extraction parameters, a recognition accuracy of 100% can be attained.

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This protocol aims to analyze how the three-vector calculation parameters of the directional gradient feature affect the accuracy of the SVM in identifying the concrete vibration state. The primary calculation parameters of the directional gradient feature vector include the directional gradient statistical block size, the number of directional gradient statistical angle intervals, and the binary gray threshold. This section uses three main calculation parameters as variables to design the test. The test parameter levels...

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The protocol described in this paper utilizes the directional gradient histogram technique to extract the characteristics of concrete image samples under various vibration states. It employs a support vector machine for machine learning, resulting in an image recognition method with minimal training sample requirements and low computer performance demands.

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swin-psaxialnet: an efficient multi-organ segmentation technique

Author Spotlight: Advancing Medical AI by Innovations in Deep Learning and Multimodal Algorithms

The present protocol describes an efficient multi-organ segmentation method called Swin-PSAxialNet, which has achieved excellent accuracy compared to previous segmentation methods. The key steps of this procedure include dataset collection, environment configuration, data preprocessing, model training and comparison, and ablation...

Swin-PSAxialNet: An Efficient Multi-Organ Segmentation Technique

micro-colony forming unit assay for efficacy evaluation of vaccines against tuberculosis

Author Spotlight: Optimizing CFU Determination for Efficient Assessment of TB Vaccine Efficacy and Antigen Presentation Analysis 

The determination of colony-forming units (CFU) is the gold-standard technique for quantifying bacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis which can take weeks to form visible colonies. Here we describe a micro-CFU for CFU determination with increased time efficiency, reduced lab space and reagent cost, and scalability to medium and high throughput...

Accelerating Tuberculosis Determination Using the Micro-CFU Method

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three-dimensional reconstruction for the whole lung with early multiple pulmonary nodules

Author Spotlight: Advancing 3D Modeling for Enhanced Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Nodules in Early-Stage Lung Cancer 

This study introduces a three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction method for the entire lung in patients with early multiple pulmonary nodules. It offers a comprehensive visualization of nodule distribution and their interplay with lung tissue, simplifying the assessment of diagnosis and prognosis for these...

Enhancing Pulmonary Nodule Diagnosis Using Whole-Lung 3D Reconstruction

a minimally invasive, accurate, and efficient technique for intrathymic injection in mice

A Minimally Invasive, Accurate, and Efficient Technique for Intrathymic Injection in Mice

The present protocol describes an interventional radiology procedure established for intrathymic injection in mice to avoid the risk of open surgery and improve the accuracy of blind percutaneous...

in vivo whole-brain imaging of zebrafish larvae using three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy

Author Spotlight: In Vivo Whole-Brain Imaging of Zebrafish Larvae Using Three-Dimensional Fluorescence Microscopy  

Presented here is a protocol for in vivo whole-brain imaging of larval zebrafish using three-dimensional fluorescence microscopy. The experimental procedure includes sample preparation, image acquisition, and...

&lt;em&gt;In Vivo&lt;/em&gt; Whole-Brain Imaging of Zebrafish Larvae

Concrete Sample Image Acquisition to Extract Concrete Characteristics

Gray Binarization of Concrete Image Sample

After binarizing the concrete images, calculate the horizontal and vertical binary gradient of each pixel in the image using this equation. Calculate the binary gradient direction and size of each point using this equation. Then determine the size of the image segmentation block represented as n.To divide the image into square blocks of n by n, set a segmentation line for every n pixels along the horizontal axis and the vertical axis. Classify pixels into the appropriate gradient's statistical angle interval of each direction based on the binary gradient direction of each pixel in the block. To obtain the gradient statistical value of that interval, sum the binary gradient of the pixels in the gradient statistical angle interval of each direction in the counterclockwise direction.Record the results obtained for the gradient statistical angle interval directional gradient statistics. Next, divide samples into precise calculation areas where each area consists of four adjacent blocks. Calculate the statistical value of the directional gradient within the angle interval for each block in the specified calculation area.Then generate the feature vector with the directional gradient's statistics as a component. Combine the directional gradient feature vectors derived from each calculation area to obtain the directional gradient feature vector of the image. As the block size is expanded to a certain extent, the directional gradient features in each block of concrete image samples with different vibration states exhibit significant differences.