The invention provides a crack depth prediction method based on an
infrared thermal imager and
deep learning, and relates to the technical field of crack prediction.The method comprises the steps that a cooling
infrared thermogram sequence and a visible light image of a crack area under thermal excitation are synchronously collected, and multi-
modal features are extracted after registration fusion; based on consistency
verification of heat conduction inversion, a width-depth empirical relation and a traditional detection means, a crack depth
label with high confidence is automatically generated, and a
data set with the
label is constructed; and finally, designing a
deep learning model containing attention enhancement and multi-scale fusion, learning a mapping relation between an input image and depth, and realizing accurate prediction of the crack depth. According to the method, a multi-source
information consistency verification mechanism is introduced,
physical model inversion, experience statistics and measured data are mutually verified, the
bottleneck problem that high-quality deep labels are difficult to obtain in
engineering practice is effectively solved, and a reliable training data basis is provided for a
deep learning model.