Damage index: Assessment of mould growth on building materials using digital image processing technique
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Date
2008-05-13
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IEEE
Abstract
There is a growing concern over the adverse health effects of exposure to high concentration
of mould spores in the indoor environments. Copious epidemiological studies have shown a
direct relationship between the exposure to indoor mould and several adverse health effects.
The phenomenon of Sick building syndrome (SBS) and Building Related Illness (BRI) have
also been attributed to moulds exposure in the indoor environment. In spite of this growing
concern, little have been reported on the development of an objective mould assessment
particularly criteria for visual inspection of mould growth on building materials. The main
premise of this study is that visual inspection related with mould damaged material can lead
to objective ranking of the severity of damaged material, and reduce the subjective nature of
mould dam-aged estimation by the use digital image processing (DIP) techniques. A four
stage technique procedure, involving image preprocessing, Image segmentation and mould
analysis and classification stage for the detection of mould growth is examined in this paper.
Results obtained when this proposed algorithm was applied to acquired digital images
collected from different infested building materials indicates the appropriateness of this
method in enhancing the visual assessment and grading associated with mould growth on
building materials
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Uncontrolled, External magnetic field, Fuzzy logic, Magnetorheological fluid, Rotary brake
Citation
Bamgbopa, I. A., Aibinu, A. M., Salami, M. J. E., Shafie, A., Ali, M., & Kassim, P. J. (2008, May). Damage index: Assessment of mould growth on building materials using digital image processing technique. In 2008 International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (pp. 584-588). IEEE.