Abstract: Aiming at the problems of low efficiency in traditional ground survey of rock mass fractures, difficulty in environmental fracture investigation of high-steep slope, and low accuracy of fracture image recognition, this paper employs images collected by unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aerial photography in geographic information technology as well as the YOLOv5 and UNet++ deep learning methods to conduct intelligent positioning and identification of rock mass fractures. YOLOv5 is used to detect and locate the fracture plane of rock mass, and then image recognition of the detected fracture plane is carried out based on the UNet++ deep learning network to further evaluate the robustness and accuracy of fracture image recognition in the field environment. The results show that under the same sample conditions, the detection accuracy of YOLOv5 reaches 85.41%, which is higher than that of faster region-based convolutional neural network (Faster R-CNN) and YOLOv3, and the recognition accuracy of UNet++ reaches 82.33%, which is higher than that of fully convolutional networks (FCN) and UNet. The deep learning algorithm based on YOLOv5 and UNet++ can realize the detection, positioning and identification of rock mass fractures efficiently and accurately, which can meet the requirements of rapid batch identification of fractures in the field environment.
Keywords: unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV); deep learning; fracture identification; YOLOv5; UNet++