An End-to-End Automated Pipeline for Controllable Crack Data Synthesis

arXiv:2609.12431v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated crack inspection increasingly relies on deep learning, yet its reliability is limited by scarce and weakly controllable defect data. Existing generative augmentation methods often treat crack synthesis as a generic image-generation task, offering insufficient control over morphology, boundary fidelity, and scene context. This paper proposes an end-to-end automated pipeline for controllable crack data synthesis that formalizes crack geometry and inspection context into reusable computational constraints. First, procedurally sampled Bezier-curve skeletons are translated into realistic crack masks using a GAN, enabling scalable generation of diverse crack morphologies without manual mask design. Second, a dual-ControlNet diffusion framework disentangles appearance guidance from geometric guidance, with an edge-based branch enforcing strict boundary consistency. The framework supports both background-free synthesis and context-aware inpainting. Experiments on CRACK500 and CrackTree200 show consistent gains over existing augmentation baselines, demonstrating a scalable engineering informatics workflow for automated crack-inspection data generation.

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Source: arXiv cs.CV | 2026-09-14