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arXiv:2105.07986 (cs)
[Submitted on 17 May 2021 (v1), last revised 18 May 2021 (this version, v2)]

Title:Learning to Automatically Catch Potholes in Worldwide Road Scene Images

Authors:J. Javier Yebes, David Montero, Ignacio Arriola
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Abstract:Among several road hazards that are present in any paved way in the world, potholes are one of the most annoying and also involving higher maintenance costs. There exists an increasing interest on the automated detection of these hazards enabled by technological and research progress. Our research work tackled the challenge of pothole detection from images of real world road scenes. The main novelty resides on the application of the latest progress in AI to learn the visual appearance of potholes. We built a large dataset of images with pothole annotations. They contained road scenes from different cities in the world, taken with different cameras, vehicles and viewpoints under varied environmental conditions. Then, we fine-tuned four different object detection models based on Faster R-CNN and SSD deep neural networks. We achieved high average precision and the pothole detector was tested on the Nvidia DrivePX2 platform with GPGPU capability, which can be embedded on vehicles. Moreover, it was deployed on a real vehicle to notify the detected potholes to a given IoT platform as part of AUTOPILOT H2020 project.
Comments: in IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine
Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Image and Video Processing (eess.IV)
ACM classes: I.4.8
Cite as: arXiv:2105.07986 [cs.CV]
  (or arXiv:2105.07986v2 [cs.CV] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2105.07986
Related DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/MITS.2019.2926370

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From: David Montero [view email]
[v1] Mon, 17 May 2021 16:10:58 UTC (29,942 KB)
[v2] Tue, 18 May 2021 07:15:56 UTC (28,592 KB)
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