Strategic SA-UNet: Integrating self-attention blocks into U-Net for efficient crack segmentation

• Ryota Kobayashi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ryota Kobayashi, Munehiro Kimura, Ryosuke Harakawa, Norrima Mokhtar, Yang Zhou, Muhammad Amirul Aiman Asri, Raza Ali, Masahiro Iwahashi

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan

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• Munehiro Kimura ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ryota Kobayashi, Munehiro Kimura, Ryosuke Harakawa, Norrima Mokhtar, Yang Zhou, Muhammad Amirul Aiman Asri, Raza Ali, Masahiro Iwahashi

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0226-8700

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• Ryosuke Harakawa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ryota Kobayashi, Munehiro Kimura, Ryosuke Harakawa, Norrima Mokhtar, Yang Zhou, Muhammad Amirul Aiman Asri, Raza Ali, Masahiro Iwahashi

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7166-4440

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• Norrima Mokhtar ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ryota Kobayashi, Munehiro Kimura, Ryosuke Harakawa, Norrima Mokhtar, Yang Zhou, Muhammad Amirul Aiman Asri, Raza Ali, Masahiro Iwahashi

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: norrimamokhtar@um.edu.my

  Affiliation Human-Machine Interface Lab, Centre for Research in Industry 4.0, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2839-1336

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• Yang Zhou ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ryota Kobayashi, Munehiro Kimura, Ryosuke Harakawa, Norrima Mokhtar, Yang Zhou, Muhammad Amirul Aiman Asri, Raza Ali, Masahiro Iwahashi

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Human-Machine Interface Lab, Centre for Research in Industry 4.0, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Muhammad Amirul Aiman Asri ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ryota Kobayashi, Munehiro Kimura, Ryosuke Harakawa, Norrima Mokhtar, Yang Zhou, Muhammad Amirul Aiman Asri, Raza Ali, Masahiro Iwahashi

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Human-Machine Interface Lab, Centre for Research in Industry 4.0, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaya Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Raza Ali ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ryota Kobayashi, Munehiro Kimura, Ryosuke Harakawa, Norrima Mokhtar, Yang Zhou, Muhammad Amirul Aiman Asri, Raza Ali, Masahiro Iwahashi

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (FICT), Balochistan University of Information Technology, Engineering and Management Sciences (BUITEMS), Quetta, Pakistan

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• Masahiro Iwahashi

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ryota Kobayashi, Munehiro Kimura, Ryosuke Harakawa, Norrima Mokhtar, Yang Zhou, Muhammad Amirul Aiman Asri, Raza Ali, Masahiro Iwahashi

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology, Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan

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