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Convolutional neural networks for crack detection on flexible road pavements

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socioeconomic

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paperdataset
Creator:
Tapamo, HermannBosman, AnnaMaina, JamesHorak, Emile
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Flexible road pavements deteriorate primarily due to traffic and adverse environmental conditions. Cracking is the most common deterioration mechanism; the surveying thereof is typically conducted manually using internationally defined classification standards. In South Africa, the use of high-definition video images has been introduced, which allows for safer road surveying. However, surveying is still a tedious manual process. Automation of the detection of defects such as cracks would allow for faster analysis of road networks and potentially reduce human bias and error. This study performs a comparison of six state-of-the-art convolutional neural network models for the purpose of crack detection. The models are pretrained on the ImageNet dataset, and fine-tuned using a new real-world binary crack dataset consisting of 14000 samples. The effects of dataset augmentation are also investigated. Of the six models trained, five achieved accuracy above 97%. The highest recorded accuracy was 98%, achieved by the ResNet and VGG16 models. The dataset is available at the following URL: zenodo.org A version of this paper is published in the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2022). Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 648. Springer, Cham

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computer visionimage classification

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Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionArtificial IntelligenceMachine Learning

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