Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PAVEMENT ENGINEERING
Volume 23, Issue 6, Pages 1981-1992Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10298436.2020.1833204
Keywords
Pavement condition evaluation; Faster R-CNN; region proposal network; deep learning; automated crack detection
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Funding
- Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport [20SCIP-C151411-02]
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Automatic pavement crack detection is crucial for maintenance evaluation and driving safety. Existing methods are time-consuming and costly. This study proposes a Faster R-CNN-based method for pavement distress detection, which achieves accurate results on real pavement images.
Automatic pavement crack detection is essential for evaluating maintenance requirements and ensuring driving safety. Crack detection plays a primary role in realising the automatic evaluation of pavement condition. Most existing researches on pavement crack detection rely on laborious work, which is a time- and cost-intensive process. Although there has been considerable research on pavement crack detection, it remains a challenging task owing to diverse complex pavement conditions. Recently, deep learning-based algorithms have achieved significant success in computer vision tasks. However, the techniques still have limitations for automatic pavement distress detection. To overcome the current limitations, this study proposes a method for detecting signs of pavement distress based on faster region based convolutional neural network (Faster R-CNN). The study focuses on the detection of longitudinal cracks, transverse cracks, alligator cracks, and partial patching in pavement images. A framework for applying the Faster R-CNN technique to a full-size pavement image is also proposed, which allows the sliding window size to be reduced, thus enabling the detection of larger images. The performance of the proposed method was validated against a dataset containing actual pavement images. The experimental test results show that the proposed method could successfully detect cracks and partial patching with accuracy.
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