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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
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<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIX-B2-2026-1275-2026</article-id>
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<article-title>Foundation Model-Based Pipeline for 3D Damage Localization in Built Infrastructure</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Yang</surname>
<given-names>Zhiya</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>de Lima-Hernandez</surname>
<given-names>Roberto</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Vergauwen</surname>
<given-names>Maarten</given-names>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Faculty of Engineering Technology, KU Leuven, 9000 Gent, Belgium</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>23</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>XLIX-B2-2026</volume>
<fpage>1275</fpage>
<lpage>1281</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Zhiya Yang et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Accurate damage localization is essential for infrastructure inspection, but conventional segmentation methods rely on dense pixel-level annotations that are costly to obtain and difficult to scale. This paper presents a foundation model-based pipeline for data-efficient damage localization in built infrastructure. The proposed workflow combines DINOv3 features for image-level classification, Grad-CAM for weak localization, and the Segment Anything Model (SAM) for prompt-guided pixel-level segmentation. The resulting masks are further transferred into 3D space for spatially contextualized visualization.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;The pipeline is evaluated on two case studies. On a subset of Sewer-ML, three representative sewer defect classes are used to compare pretrained backbones and to qualitatively assess downstream localization. The DINOv3-based classifier achieves a higher average F2-score than a Google ViT baseline, reaching about 0.72 versus 0.64. On a custom historic masonry dataset, the method is quantitatively evaluated for material-loss segmentation using manually annotated test masks. The proposed heatmap-guided prompting strategy achieves a mean Dice score of 0.69 and a mean IoU of 0.53, while the classification stage reaches an F2-score of 0.99. A proof-of-concept experiment further demonstrates that segmented damage regions can be visualized within a larger local 3D scene. Overall, the results show that the proposed foundation-model based pipeline can support data-efficient and spatially meaningful damage localization across different infrastructure domains.</p>
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