2025 YPWLC final
The winners of the national and regional finals of the Young Persons' Lecture Competition, held in regions where IOM3 has international branches or sister institutions, compete in the world final. The first YPWLC was held in London in 2005, and since then has travelled to different locations in four continents. The event has been held online since 2020.
The finalists will give a 15 minute presentation on a technical topic of their choice and then answer questions from the judging panel.
Timetable
| 11:30 | Login |
| 11:40 | Welcome & introductions |
| 11:45 | 2025 Young Persons' World Lecture Competition |
| Hamish Dow | UK | |
| Lights, camera, action: Automated visual inspections of concrete structures | |
| 15:45 | Results |
| 16:00 | End |
* time zone = GMT
UK
Hamish Dow
UK
Hamish Dow
Dr Hamish Dow is a Research Associate at the University of Strathclyde’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research investigates novel AI-based imaging methods for detecting and quantifying concrete structure defects. Hamish's lecture will explain how AI can be used for visual inspections, highlight innovative concrete inspection methods developed at the University of Strathclyde, and present real-world, Strathclyde-led, case studies demonstrating AI-driven inspection applications.
Lights, camera, action: Automated visual inspections of concrete structures
Early identification of defects in concrete structures is vital to ensuring their longevity and resilience. However, traditional visual inspections are expensive, inconsistent, labour-intensive, and dangerous.
Our invention, Adaptive Lighting for the Inspection of Concrete Structures (ALICS), is a new inspection platform: it is an automated, and robot-mountable concrete visual inspection device that uses lighting and artificial intelligence to detect, classify, quantify, and monitor concrete defects with unprecedented speed, accuracy, and precision.
ALICS’s lighting-enhanced inspection method enables fast, targeted concrete defect repair and monitoring of concrete infrastructure, extending asset lifespans and reducing carbon-intensive new-build construction.
This presentation will showcase ALICS’s lighting-enhanced inspection method and concrete defect detection abilities. Results from on-site deployment will also be presented, validating ALICS’s methods in a real-world environment.
Judging panel
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