The scale of public roads, particularly highways, has rapidly increased in many nations over the last few decades. To increase the road’s usability and thus its social and economic benefits, road maintenance has received more attention lately. Road inspections were done manually, the old-fashioned way takes a lot of time, and work, and is subjective. For proper road maintenance, deteriorated roads must be repaired as quickly as possible. Therefore, there is an urgent need for high-performance, low-cost technology to identify road surface distress. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), on the other hand, are an exciting option for monitoring the status of roads. They have the benefits of great flexibility, cheap cost, and simple agility. The data was collected in a 5 km road stretch of NH-336, Tamil Nadu. In this study, some of the computer vision tools including OpenCV, CUDA, etc. are tried to detect and localize the distress. It includes the detection and classification of pavement distress by using Object detection algorithms like Faster RCNN, Yolov3, and Yolov4 were used for detection and classification of road distresses. The main focus is on the detection and classification of potholes and cracks. Local road authorities and communities can benefit from this system to evaluate the state of their road network pavement in real-time. The application of deep learning techniques in transportation engineering problems is very rare. This study makes an effort to use deep learning techniques in the classification of the distresses and localizing them.
Pavement Distress Detection Using Image Processing from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Data
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
International Conference on Innovative Methods and Practical Applications for Cognizant Transportation Systems ; 2023 ; Thiruvananthapuram, India March 20, 2023 - March 22, 2023
Cognizant Transportation Systems: Challenges and Opportunities ; Chapter : 13 ; 177-191
2024-11-30
15 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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